C'est une fille! It's a girl for French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The little girl was born before 8 p.m. on Wednesday evening at a private clinic in Paris. The baby's name is not yet known.
Former model-turned-singer-turned-presidential wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is usually, by her own account, a "very chatty person," but France's First Lady recently clammed up during an interview when asked to confirm the rumors that she is pregnant again. According to the Telegraph, the 43-year-old wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a reporter: "If you'll allow me, I'd rather not answer these questions about my family. I'd love to talk to you woman to woman about my family life, my personal dreams — and I'm really a very chatty person. But on this subject, I'm going to keep quiet. Not through arrogance or because I like keeping secrets. I am remaining tight-lipped about that to protect something. I would really like to to talk about it, but then it would take over everything else. And besides, it also involves people, so I'm not answering."
First starting on Twitter, the rumors that Carla "Bored-With-Monogamy" Bruni-Sarkozy and Nicolas "Serial Philanderer" Sarkozy were getting un peu quelque chose sur le côté then creeped onto the blogosphere before erupting onto the mainstream newsosphere. Some, however, believe that this convenient affair was dreamed up by Sarkozy's PR department to "save face," or perhaps more descriptively, save ego. "Sarkozy the swordsman cuts a more appealing figure than Sarkozy the cuckold" says Daily Telegraph blogger Toby Young, who notes that the President's second wife, Cecilia Ciganer-Albaniz, also left him for another man.
Celebrity relationship scandals have included stepmoms sleeping with their stepsons, husbands sleeping with their best friends' wives, and rappers shagging other rappers. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
Despite all the attention Michelle Obama has been getting lately for being awesome, planting organic victory gardens and picking out Portuguese water dogs doesn't really compare to the madcap adventures of France's executive spouse, pop singer, model, and dater of rock stars Carla Bruni, who is the third wife of the country's president, tiny little man Nicolas Sarkozy. Now some of Bruni’s colorful past may be coming to haunt her husband—well, more than your average fellow is haunted by knowing that his wife used to nail Mick Jagger.
People, we need to start having more sex. According to a new Global Wellbeing survey by Durex, Americans rank third lowest in the world when it comes to the frequency with which we knock boots. In fact, only the nations of Japan, Hong Kong and Nigeria have less sex. And we know what the former two are doing with their free time: Getting busy developing superior electronics. Anyway.
After telling the press that they'd be the last to know if he got married, it looks like French president Nicolas Sarkozy might have gotten married. Sarkozy has been date Carla Bruni for a couple of months now and the time felt right, we suppose.
