Overview
- Nicolas‑Jacques Charrier was born on Jan. 11, 1960, during a home birth at the couple’s Paris apartment, according to a New York Times announcement.
- After Bardot and Jacques Charrier divorced in 1962, custody went to his father, and Nicolas was primarily raised by his paternal grandparents.
- Before publication of Initiales B.B., Nicolas and his father sought to block passages about them; after the 1997 release they won an invasion‑of‑privacy case that led a Paris court to fine Bardot about $40,000.
- In the memoir, Bardot wrote that she was not made to be a mother, a stance that underpinned the rift and the public fallout over her portrayal of pregnancy and parenting.
- In later years Bardot kept contact limited and, in 2024, said she had promised not to discuss Nicolas in interviews, while he maintained a private family life in Norway and his father Jacques Charrier died in 2025.