Carla Bruni - First Lady of France and her dresses

"Yes, I'm not a lady!" - Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, asserts every now and then.

“I have always swam between two waters, between two countries, two languages, professions, aspirations and fathers,” says First Lady Carla Bruni in one of her interviews.

Two countries - Italy and France. Carla Bruni was born in Italy, but at the age of five she moved to France, where she later lived. True, she will receive French citizenship only before the very wedding with the president in 2008. Two fathers - her stepfather was rich enough. Industrialist, owner of the Pirelli concern. Her mother is a pianist. Sister is an actress.

Karla attended an elite boarding school in Switzerland. Then she entered the University of Paris at the Faculty of Art and Architecture. And at the age of 19, her friends persuaded to try herself as a model... And she signs a contract with the City Models agency, becoming in the 1990s one of the most successful models in the world.

But Karla is not a model at all, no. She - singer... And most importantly, the author of his own songs. In her debut album "Quelqu'un m'a dit" she wrote the music and lyrics to almost all the songs herself. Except for the title track, which was co-written by Leo Carax. And in 2004 Carla Bruni became the "Best Singer of the Year". She receives the highest award in the French recording industry "Victoria". And becoming the first lady, Karla does not give up music, in 2008 another of her album "As if nothing had happened" was released, which also has a huge success. As if nothing had happened.

"Actually, I had much less of them!" - Karla answers a provocative question from one of the journalists that in one of her songs she mentions 30 lovers that she had. “It's just the word 'thirty' goes well with the word 'lovers',” she adds.

Karla has a son, a son from philosophy professor Rafael Entovena. Now he is a professor, and then he was a 23-year-old student, Karla was 33 years old. She was also dating his father at the time. Then she stated that she was "bored with monogamy." Her lovers also included Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Kevin Costner, Vincent Perez and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.

In 2008, Karla settled down and got married. Marry the President. Nicolas Sarkozy, by the way, became the first French president to marry in his post. Before Karla, he was married twice. Their wedding took place at the Elysee Palace. In October 2011, their daughter Julia was born.

Karla herself was born on December 23, 1967. She is already forty-something, but she looks great. “Honestly, I am horrified by all these injections and operations. Frankly, it seems to me that all these lifts make the face look strange and, paradoxically, only emphasize the real age! " - Carla Bruni stated in her 2010 interview for one of their magazines. "I am not worried about the prospect of losing physical youth, I am rather afraid of losing the very essence of youth - hopes, plans, opportunities ..."

Duality. But unlike her husband, Karla adheres to leftist views and openly stated that in the presidential elections she would vote for Segolene Royal. But then she could not vote. After all, then she was not yet a French citizen.

And the First Lady Carla Bruni is head and shoulders above the French president. And, despite the fact that Nicolas Sarkozy is less and less popular in France, the interest in his wife (either to her work, or to her fate) remains the same.