According to reports, she lives in the French coastal town of La Madrague. The former star is married to Bernard d’Ormal, a wealthy businessman. They have been married since 16 August 1992, when the couple tied the knot in Norway.

Brigitte is still a strong and active animal activist. In an interview with Vogue, she was asked what gives her the strength to get out of bed in the morning.

”The suffering of animals,” she answered.

”You probably know that I find walking difficult these days. I can’t go for long walks any more, or go swimming. But I’m lucky, compared to what animals suffer. The dozens of letters I receive every day testify to the horrors that animals are still being subjected to.”

On January 11, 1960 she gave birth to her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. She shared her son with actor Jacques Charrier, who was her second husband. Bardot had always maintained her disinterest in being a mother. she said once, “I did not want to give birth to an additional human being. I think there are too many on Earth. And they scare me”

“I believe today that it can be learned. But at the time, it was a pain,” she once stated. She talked about her experience being a mother in her book titled Initialed BB, released in 1996.

She compared her pregnancy to a tumor saying, “It was like a tumor that had nourished me, that I had carried in my swollen flesh, thinking only the blessed moment in which we would finally rid it”

When she gave birth and was introduced to her baby, she remembered saying to the midwives “I drive crazy, I did not want to see it anymore.”