Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934, into a bourgeois and Catholic family. Her father was the owner of Usines Bardot, her mother was an artist. During her childhood, the woman who would become an actress suffered from amblyopia: she could not see well in her left eye. Brigitte Bardot was educated according to the strict Catholic tradition, studying in particular at the Institut de la Tour in Paris.