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Pop culture icon and
sex symbol of the
had a spectacular career as an actress, model, and singer.
Appearing in landmark films including and ultimately being nominated for a BAFTA Award,
she eventually grew weary of public life and retired from the entertainment industry in .
And aside from the career in front of the camera,
the famed animal rights activist also had several relationships in private,
though she admitted she lacked commitment.
“I have always looked for passion,” she once said.
“That’s why I was often unfaithful.
And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase.”

Throughout her life,
Brigitte has been married three times,
marrying her fourth husband,
in .
Bernard revealed that the actress had been hospitalized for “trouble breathing” on July
, .
revealed the heat and got to her while speaking to French outlet “
was stronger than usual but she did not lose consciousness.
Let’s call it a moment of respiratory distraction,” he said.
Find out everything you need to know about Bernard and Brigitte’s past husbands here.

Roger Vadim

Brigitte was only
years old when she married director on December
.
Her husband would go on to direct her in the role that gained her worldwide recognition — Juliette in.
But by , the relationship seemed to be in trouble,
as the breathtaking beauty fell in love with her married costar.
Her marriage to Roger was over by.

Despite the split,
the former couple appeared to remain on good terms.
The pair reunited for and .
He even complimented her performance of one of the most memorable scenes of her dancing barefoot in a interview.
“There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did,
what was provocative was her natural sensuality,” he said, per.

Roger was married four times after Brigitte,
including to from to .
His fifth and final marriage was to actress from until his death in .
He was when he passed away.

Jacques Charrier

After breaking up with,
Brigitte embarked on a relationship with French actor, film producer, and artist.
Brigitte became pregnant with him, and they were subsequently married on June .
The duo welcomed Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, Brigitte’s only child, on January .
She reportedly engaged in an affair with in the early , and ultimately divorced Jacques in.

Aside from the reported affair,
Brigitte revealed that she wasn’t happy when she became pregnant in her memoir per.
After she and Jacques split in , he raised Nicolas with little contact with his mother,
and both her ex and son tried to sue her for damages after her memoir was published.
Brigitte was reportedly not invited to her son’s wedding in .
They do seem to have reconciled since then.

Gunter Sachs

After a two-year stint living with musician,
Brigitte fell for German millionaire.
She married the famed playboy in Las Vegas on July ,
but again, the union only lasted a couple of years and ended in divorce on October .
He had, however, been quite a romantic; Gunter was known for having a helicopter drop a cascade of red roses over La Madrague,
Brigitte’s property on the Côte d’Azur.
“It’s not every day a man drops a ton of roses in your backyard,” she wrote of the grand gesture in her autobiography per.

And that wasn’t the last of it, either.
After Brigitte sold her lavish wedding ring following their split,
Gunter reportedly tracked it down and returned it to an undoubtedly stunned Brigitte.
“I’d already known and loved many men,
I’d had passionate affairs,” she wrote in her book of her initial meeting with Gunter.
“But that evening, I was hypnotised.
I seemed to be flying, as if carried by Gunter into a fairytale world I had never known and would never know again.”

Gunter later died by suicide at the age of in , per.

Bernard D’Ormale

Brigitte entered into several relationships in the years following her split from Gunter,
but eventually remarried to businessman and right-wing politician in at the age of .
It was reportedly an intimate ceremony.
The couple’s wedding was reportedly at an intimate ceremony in “a little wood chapel” in Norway, according to.
“Two weeks after we met Brigitte phoned Nicolas because she wanted him to meet me,
and we agreed to go and see him in Norway,” Bernard said at the time, per.
“Just before we left, she said,
‘Why don’t we get married while we are there?’ So we did.
But quietly.
I am not a man for the limelight.
Only close friends of ours knew.”

The duo remained married until Bardot died on December .
She was.