“Maybe I did something good in a past life.” All in all, “I’ve been very lucky,” she says, smiling, and takes a final haul from her mint-flavored vape. She makes dinner most nights-“I lazily cook pasta”-or they order in. They watch TV together: “We more or less love anything,” says Bruni. She tries to get him to listen to the Clash he’s partial to Elvis. They just go, ‘I’m hungry.’ I’m like, ‘Hey, I have a job, okay?’ ”Īt home she and Sarkozy are like a typical couple. If a man is a songwriter, the door is closed, and his girl stands in front of the door being like, ‘Daddy’s working.’ But me, they don’t care. That’s the difference between a man and a woman. Her kids “only see me as their mother they don’t even see that I’m working. “He’s okay with Mommy’s music, but he falls asleep a little bit,” she says. There’s even a cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” one of the few songs on the album that resonate with her teenage son. “I sent Mick the song by e-mail for him to agree, and he was like, ‘Yeah, I like it,’ ” says Bruni, who today is wearing a fitted T-shirt emblazoned with Keith Richards’ face. In October, she will release a new album, a collection of stripped-down, almost folk-like covers, produced with the help of the composer- producer David Foster, featuring her take on classic numbers like Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man,” and the Rolling Stones’ “Miss You.” It’s a new life, which is so cool, because he’s 62.” (Bruni is 49 their daughter, Giulia, is five.)īruni, for her part, hasn’t stopped working either. “And he’s more flexible because he got another job.” (He is now on the board of directors of AccorHotels, a multinational hospitality group based in France.) “I told him, ‘Stop taking all this work, now that we have a little cool time.’ But he cannot be without work, so he works even more. This fall, she plans to hit the road again and hopes Sarkozy will come along. She expected that it would sell only “two copies-one to my mom and one to my sister”-but it ended up selling more than two million. Love doesn’t happen so easily.”īruni, who began pursuing music full-time in 1997, released her first album, Quelqu’un M’a Dit (“Someone Told Me”) in 2002. It never happened to me before,” she says. Bruni says she knew immediately that he was the one. After less than three months of courtship, the pair married, in February 2008. But I don’t miss it.”īut it was the president of France who stole her heart. I wouldn’t care if I wasn’t a public person, but I still get people photographing me. But I get embarrassed when I’m out of shape. When I was younger I would just sit around smoking and eat McDonald’s. To stay in shape, “I do barre, Pilates, yoga. It’s better for me when I don’t drink either.” He’s never had a sip of alcohol in his life,” Bruni says. (“This is what you use if you want to get rid of the addiction,” she explains.) As for his vices, “my man doesn’t drink at all. ![]() Take these moments, for instance: “Even when my man was the president, I’d take the Metro and go anywhere,” Bruni says of her life in Paris, enjoying a luxurious French puff from an e-cigarette. ![]() That would be Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France. There are many enchanting things about the onetime resident of the Élysée Palace, the singer- songwriter and model Carla Bruni, but how she refers to her husband might take the gâteau.
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