Brigitte Bardot

French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967 .

Ex-film star and a prominent animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on July 16, 2001 after a meeting with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in Paris.

Picture taken in St Tropez, southern France, June 7, 1973, shows French star Brigitte Bardot and her friend Laurent Verges having a drink in the Club 55 beach.

Brigitte Bardot on May 6, 2004.She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1950s and '60s and gained international attention as the star of Roger Vadim's "And God Created Women." Married four times, Bardot was Vadim's wife when they made the movie.

A picture dated July 16, 1966, shows Brigitte Bardot flanked and her third husband Gunther Sachs, right, arriving at Las Vegas after their marriage. They divorced in 1969.

Former French film star and animal right activist Brigitte Bardot acknowledges applause prior to a press conference at the Marigny theater, in Paris, on the 20th anniversary of her foundation for animal rights, The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, Sept. 28, 2006.

French singer Sascha Distel is seen with Brigitte Bardot in this 1958 file photo taken at Antibes, southern France.

Brigitte Bardot on Oct. 4, 1996. A vegetarian, Bardot has earned millions for her animal rights foundation by auctioning off her jewelry and other possessions.

Brigitte Bardot talks to the press Feb. 28, 2001, after arriving at the Bucharest airport in Romania. Bardot proposed to officials there a campaign to sterilize the city's stray dogs and, through her animal rights foundation. She has donated more than $140,000 to the sterilization effort.

Picture taken Jan. 17, 1989, shows Brigitte Bardot playing with a dog in Cabries, France.

An undated file picture shows Brigitte Bardot posing with dogs on the beach in Cannes.

Brigitte Bardot, left, and director Roger Vadim, her first husband, sit at an outdoor restaurant in Saint Tropez, on the French riviera in July. They were married from 1952 to 1957.

Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.

Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses with her book during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.

Brigitte Bardot walks out from a polling booth at the polling station of the Louis Blanc school in Saint-Tropez, southern France, on May 10, 1981, for the second round of the Presidential Election.

French Actress Brigitte Bardot, left, flanked by her husband Gunter Sachs arrives in Tahiti on July 21, 1966. The two were married from 1966-69.

French actress Brigitte Bardot, with her companion Laurent Verges, right, is seen in a night-club in Saint-Tropez, on Aug. 4, 1973.

French actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband Gunter Sachs walking in streets of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 8, 1967.

French actress Brigitte Bardot and her friend Christian Kalt spending Eastertide in Saint-Tropez on April 4, 1972.

Brigitte Bardot on Nov. 28, 1969. Bardot started her career as a model and aspiring dancer and made more than 40 films before she retired at age 39.

French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967.

Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967.

Brigitte Bardot, with a seal baby, protests against seal-hunting in fecamp, northern France, on April 8, 1976.

A photo taken in the '50s shows French actress Brigitte Bardot.

Brigitte Bardot inaugurates the exposition "100 photos of Brigitte Bradot" in Paris.

French actress Brigitte Bardot is waving as she boards a plane at Orly airport near Paris en route to New York on Dec. 16, 1965.

French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "La verite" directed by G.H. Clouzot on Aug. 23, 1960.

A photo taken in September 1952 shows Brigitte Bardot, aged 18 years old, and her sister Mijanou.

Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan. 17, 1959.

Brigitte Bardot toasts to the coming out of her new movie "La verite" with the costar Sami Frey, left, and the film producer Henri-Georges Clouzot during a ceremony held June 1, 1960, at the Joinville Studios on the set of the now finished production.

French film director Roger Vadim directs Brigitte Bardot in a scene of his film "Please Not Now " (La Bride sur le Cou) in 1961 in Boulogne studios.