Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni is a French-Italian singer and songwriter. She is also a model. Carla was born on 23 Dec 1967, in Turlin, Italy. Her family later moved to France in 1975. She grew up in France. She attended a boarding school in Switzerland. Later she moved to Paris for higher studies in Art and Architecture. However, she left the high school at the age of 19, to pursue a career in modeling. For this, she signed with City Models.  She was selected to model with Estelle Lefebure in the campaign for Guess? Jeans. Afterwards, she worked with some designers and fashion houses including Christian Dior, Givenche, Versace, and Chanel. She was listed in Top 20 highest paid models in 1990s. She quitted modeling in 1997 because she wanted to be a singer. She released her debut album Quelqu'un m'a dit, in 2002. Title track from this album appeared in movie Le Divorce in 2003 and 500 days of summer in 2009. Three other songs from this album also appeared in an American romantic drama film named Conversation with other women, in 2005. She grabbed EBBA award in 2004. In 2005, she wrote the lyrics for album Longtemps, sung by Louis Bertignac. In the same album, she sang two duets with him. In 2006, she participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, in a parade to pay tribute to the Italian Flag. 

Carla released her second album No Promises in 2007. Her third album was released in July 2008, which was called Comme si de rien n'était. She met Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, at a dinner party in November 2007. They got married on 2nd Feb 2008 in Paris. Then she obtained French nationality. She is a mother to a girl, in Paris, who is now 4 and named Giulia.

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Bruni is a French-Italian singer and songwriter who have also proved herself to be proficient in modelling and an actress simultaneously. Officially called Carla Bruni Sarkozy was earlier named Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi as a child. She was born on 23rd December 1967 and brought up at Turin in Italy. Growing up in a wealthy Italian family, she had made herself popular by being the first lady of France watched by the world. Bruni is the heiress to the CEAT, which was established by her legal great grandfather. She is presently the better half of Nicholas Sarkozy, the President of France. They decided to get settled in the year 2007. She is being actively involved in various types of charity works from being associated with PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) to campaigns regarding the children born with HIV viruses. She works towards promoting young artists and has also recorded an album on Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday called ‘We Are So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie’. She has been known to have multiple relationships with Eric Clapton, Charles Berling, Donald Trump, Vincent Parez, Louis Bertignac and many more.

Besides being famous for being the wife of French President she has also proven herself in her professional life too. Signing up with City Models just at the age of 19 for Guess?, Bruni had walked for various big houses like Christian Dior, Sonia Rykiel, John Galliano and various other popular names. She has been the cover girl for more than 200 magazines during her modelling life. Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger has been a seen dating her during this period. The 1990s saw her getting off from the life of a model and concentrating on her career in music. Being closely connected with music from both parents she was always well-versed in writing and composing good numbers. Her first album release was a French music album named Quelqu'un m'a dit in the year 2003. She had also sued Pardon, who used her nude photograph of modelling career from 1993. Later in 2007, she also released No Promises which saw an end of her extra-marital relationship with Ethnoven a professor of Philosophy. They also had a child named Aurelien during their courtship in 2001, although Bruni denied any such relationship with Ethnoven, during her stay with the family in a magazine named Vanity Fair. However after her marriage with Sarkozy, Gilia their first daughter was born in the year 2011. In this year itself, she acted in a popular film named Midnight in Paris She was being honoured in France with the ‘Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in the year 2003. Other countries also vested honour on this beautiful lady in 2009 (Spain) with’ Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III’ and in 2010 (Benin) with ‘Grand Cross of National Order of Merit’.

Her enterprising beauty is the main reason for her popularity, and her association with big names of France gave an added advantage.