CARLA'S NEVER-ENDING FIRST LADY BEAUTY CONTEST
Carla with lookalike Princess Letizia of Spain in April
By Peter Allen
FRANCE’S Carla Bruni admits she is locked in a never-ending beauty contest with other First Ladies from around the world.
The 41-year-old former supermodel, married to President Nicolas Sarkozy, launched a new website this week furthering her image as an international sex symbol.
She ranks herself alongside America’s Michelle Obama, 45, and lookalike Princess Letizia, 37, of Spain, as her chief rivals in the beauty stakes.
She 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.
“From their Louboutin shoes to their Azzedine Alaïa dresses, the essentials are all there.”
Referring to one of several encounters this year between Carla and Michelle, the site says that on June 6, 2009, the two First Ladies met for the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings, “both dressed in white”.
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Top 10 dresser Michelle Obama meets Carla in France
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And it adds: “According to Vanity Fair Michelle Obama is one of the world’s 10 best-dressed women.”
Other entries in the site make it clear that Carla frequently tops such polls.
In another far from modest posting about the US photographer Annie Leibovitz, Carla is compared to Jackie Onassis, the glamorous wife of assassinated US President John F Kennedy.
Under the headline “The new Jackie O” it recalls how Vanity Fair, for which Leibovitz works, put her on the front page in riding boots and jodhpurs with the Elysee Palace tapestries behind her.
There is an entry about the charity work of British Premier’s wife Sarah Brown, but nothing about her looks or fashion sense.
The website describes Carla as someone with a romantic destiny who “has to face history with a cool head and smile on her lips”.
