Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, first lady at the Elysee Palace: “It was such brutality”

Today, she is half of the strongman of France from 2007 to 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom she had a daughter, Giulia, 10 years old. Recently, she unveiled on Instagram a beautiful shot with him in Egypt. Behind the tenderness of this photograph, there is a man, President of the Republic, and a woman, who affirms to have kept all her independence. However, there are things that changed in her life after the election of her husband: “It changed my relationship with the media. I was very confident before. But it was so brutal that I had to take shelter a bit. That’s all. But it is quite natural. I understand that it has destabilized. But me, I never see a person in the yardstick of his husband or his wife. It’s a form of sexism that I’m not familiar with. I was amazed that I was equated with my man, whom I love more than anything, but who is not me at all.“