In August 1965, Fonda married her first husband, prominent French film director Roger Vadim, per the Washington Post. They tied the knot in a small ceremony at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. At the time, Fonda was 28; Vadim was 10 years her senior and known for being a womanizer (Fonda was actually his third wife).
By the time he married Fonda — who moved to Paris in the hopes of pivoting her reputation as the "girl next door" to more serious, sexier roles — he had already had previous romances with other beautiful actors like Brigitte Bardot and Cindy Pickett. He shared a son with French screen siren Catherine Deneuve, and a daughter, Nathalie, from a previous marriage with Danish actor Annette Stroyberg. Nathalie and Fonda formed a sweet bond, and the then-teenager considered her a strong mother figure.
