Brigitte Bardot's death was announced by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation on Sunday, Dec. 28. A day prior, the foundation had shared a video on Instagram of Bardot with a dog in need of a new home.

Celebrities honor Brigitte Bardot after the French icon's death at 91. President Macron called her a 'legend of the century' who embodied freedom.

Brigitte Bardot, the French film icon whose unapologetic sensuality helped break sexual taboos on screen, has died at 91, according to a statement from her charitable foundation: “The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president,

Bardot is survived by one adult child, Nicolas, with whom she had a complicated, estranged relationship. Here is where Nicolas is today and why the mother and son shared a strained bond.

The actress and model's look in the 1950s and 1960s became one of the most iconic of all time, still referenced today by beauty and fashion pros and celebrities