She gave all of her focus and attention to animal rights, saying, “I threw myself heart and soul into it, without knowing a thing about it, without even knowing how I was going to go about it..” Her Foundation was her baby, but Bardot did have a child in real life as well. Still, she struggled with being a mother and in her 1996 memoir, revealed that she underwent multiple abortions but after getting pregnant at age 25 with her second husband, her parents forced her to have the baby. Shockingly, Bardot has said that she would have rather given birth to a little dog instead of a child. Her husband’s parents raised her son, and she did not have close contact or a close relationship with him.
