Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jane Birkin" in English language version.
A naturalised French citizen, Birkin moved to France in the late 1960s
My parents weren't married so I don't have an ideal image of marriage that I'm hoping for.
Contrary to rumors, Jane and Serge never did marry. "He said in France I'd need to be fingerprinted and have a blood sample", Jane says, "and I was slightly offended and said, 'What on earth for?' I also had a secret fear that marriage changed things, and so, in fact, we weren't."
My parents weren't married so I don't have an ideal image of marriage that I'm hoping for.
Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin often referred to each other as husband and wife, but in fact they were never married, according to Ms. Birkin's agent. An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Ms. Birkin twice as Gainsbourg's third wife