After the inevitable divorce, Nicolas did not see his mother for decades.<\/p>\n
He sued Bardot for emotional damage when she published an autobiography in which she stated that she would have preferred to “give birth to a little dog”.<\/p>\n
Brigitte was now the highest paid actress in France, with some suggesting that she was more valuable in terms of foreign trade than the country’s car industry.<\/p>\n
But she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress. “I have not had very much chance to act,” she complained, “mostly I have had to undress.”<\/p>\n
She began to attract the attention of Europe’s most respected film-makers, winning critical acclaim in Jean-Luc Godard’s powerful, New Wave drama, Le M\u00e9pris (Contempt).<\/p>\n
But the overall quality of her output was mixed, especially when she ventured outside France and into Hollywood.<\/p>\n
A third marriage, to a millionaire German playboy, was followed by a string of lovers – although, uncharacteristically, she did reject Sean Connery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the inevitable divorce, Nicolas did not see his mother for decades. He sued Bardot for emotional damage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-339135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}