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Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris on September 28, 1934. From a middle-class family, her father was the director of an industrial company and her mother organized fashion shows for a fashion house; this helped little Brigitte stand out on the catwalks from an early age.

Then, as a teenager, Brigitte Bardot studied at the Conservatoire National de Danse with Boris Kniaseff. When she was just 15, she met a young screenwriter and assistant director, Roger Vadim, with whom she had her first passionate love affair. Their story was a difficult one. She wanted to marry before she turned 18, but her father wouldn't let her. On the day Roger went to ask for her hand in marriage, Brigitte's father was waiting for him with a revolver on his desk and chased him out of the house. They were finally married on December 20, 1952, at the registry office in the Auteuil district of Paris. The following year, she was already a fashion star.

She worked in the film Thieves in the Night, controversial for its nudity scenes. This was followed by films such as Le grand séducteur and La désespérée. By the early '60s, she was already earning nearly a million francs to make her first film as a protagonist, Et Dieu créa la femme..., with her husband as director. The film was a great success for her, but it also caused major problems in her married life, leading to a split with Vadim. But she soon discovered a very brief and contradictory affair with the film's protagonist, Jean-Louis Trintignant, with whom she lived after asking her husband for a divorce.

At the age of 45, the French press attributed 42 lovers to her. These included singer Gilbert Bécaud (when he left her for his wife, he attempted suicide), musician Sacha Distel and actor Jacques Charrier (with whom she married and had a son on January 11, 1960, named Nicholas). Shortly afterwards, she dated actor Sami Frey, for whom she suffered a near-death experience when they separated, as did Sami himself, who attempted suicide. Numerous romances were part of her life.