Carla Bruni admits she is locked in a never-ending First Lady 'beauty contest'
By
Peter Allen
Last updated at 11:53 AM on 06th October 2009
Carla Bruni today admitted she is locked in a never-ending ‘beauty contest’ with other First Ladies around the world.
The 41-year-old uses her new official website to further her image as an international sex symbol, with a gushing personal profile describing her as someone with a ‘romantic destiny’ who has to ‘face history with a cool head and a smile on her lips.’
But, despite a biography which includes details about friction with former wives of her new husband President Nicolas Sarkozy, there is no mention whatsoever of her young son, Aurelien.
Beauty battle: Carla Bruni (right) cites Princess Letizia of Spain (left) as one of her main beauty rivals
Instead, millions across the world who were today logging on to the unique site for the first time, can read extensively about the former supermodel’s good looks.
While referring to America’s Michelle Obama and Princess Letizia of Spain as her chief rivals in the beauty stakes, Ms Bruni makes only a couple of passing references to Britain’s Sarah Brown.
Indeed a posting on the site recalls a visit to Madrid in April, ‘which was once more an opportunity to compare the styles of First Ladies’.
It continues: ‘As with Michelle Obama, it is a beauty contest between Princess Letizia, a former star journalist, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, ex-top model.
‘From their Louboutin shoes to their Azzedine Alaïa dresses, the essentials are all there.’
Referring to a head-to-head between Ms Bruni and Mrs Obama in northern France a couple of months later, the site reads: ‘On June 6, 2009, the two First Ladies met again for the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings, both dressed in white.’
Fight of the First Ladies: Michelle Obama is also regarded as contender
A sentence which may or may not be ironic reads: ‘According to Vanity Fair Michelle Obama is one of the world’s ten best-dressed women’.
Other entries in the site make it clear that Ms Bruni frequently tops such polls.
Another far from modest posting about the American photographer Annie Leibovitz reads: ‘In 2008, the woman who has 142 Rolling Stone covers to her name unveiled Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on the front page of Vanity Fair: riding boots and jodhpurs in front of the Elysee Palace tapestries. “The New Jackie O?” asks the headline.’
After the reference to Jackie Onassis, the late hugely glamorous wife of assassinated U.S. head of state John F Kennedy, the website says of Ms Bruni: ‘As Diana the hunter or in a red sheath dress on the roof of the Elysee Palace, the President’s wife yields to the eye of the photographer, who has always regretted not being able to immortalize Queen Elizabeth II in a garden full of flowers.’
No contest: Reference is made to Sarah Brown's charity work, but not to her physical appearance
Despite such romantic language, there is an entry about the charity work of Sarah Brown, who turns 46 this month, and nothing about her looks or fashion sense.
References to Mr Sarkozy, whom Ms Bruni tweely nicknames ‘Monmari’ as in ‘Myhusband’, include the fact that ‘he is a subject of media fascination.’
More...Ms Bruni makes no mention of her long list of former famous lovers, including English rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, and former French Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.
Sexy: The French First Lady's website is one of a kind
More surprisingly, Aurelien, her nine-year-old son with philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven, is completely written out of her life story too. Many in France have commented on how Ms Bruni is never pictured with the boy, and never mentions him.
This is despite the fact that she attended a recent global summit in New York with Mr Sarkozy’s youngest son, Louis, 12.
Ms Bruni's official website also includes an entry about Louis’s mother, Mr Sarkozy’s second wife, Cecilia.
In it, Ms Bruni refutes much publicised claims that, on the eve of her wedding to Mr Sarkozy last year, the President sent Cecilia a text message saying: ‘If you come back I’ll call the whole thing off.’
Ms Bruni’s new website,
www.carlabrunisarkozy.org, crashed within a few minutes of its launch on Monday because tens of thousands of people tried to log on at once, but today it appeared to be working normally.
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