Her “full” life involved 17 relationships, including four marriages, the last of which was longer than her three previous marriages combined. She liked other animals too, setting up the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the welfare of animals in 1986 and becoming vegetarian. Then there is Brigitte Macron, who is 72, wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, 24 years her junior and in breach of the seemingly last taboo – the forbidden love involving a woman who could be the man’s mother by age. Few public figures have attracted such vile criticism as Brigitte Macron, fanned inevitably online by such as US conspiracy theorist Candace Owens, alleging Brigitte is really a man who seduced her husband when he was a minor. The Macrons have also filed a US lawsuit for defamation against Owens, whose response to the French case was “Brigitte is dangerous.

Source: The Irish Times February 02, 2026 02:01 UTC