Carla Bruni

She has been previously linked with several high-profile men like Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Charles Berling and former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.

She had an affair with philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven which resulted in the birth of a son in 2001. The couple broke up in 2007.

She met French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 and married him the next year. They have a daughter.

She was born as Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi to Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini. Marisa’s husband Alberto Bruni Tedeschi is Carla’s legal father though her biological father is Maurizio Remmert who once had an affair with her mother.

She is the heiress of a business empire—tire manufacturing company CEAT--that was founded by her legal grandfather. She was brought up in a wealthy household.

Her family moved to France in 1975 and she attended boarding school in Switzerland. She went to Paris to study art and architecture. However, she quit college to pursue a career in modeling.

She began working as a model when she was 19. Her pictures caught the eye of Paul Marciano, president and creative director of ‘Guess?’ who selected her to model for the brand.

With her glamorous looks and poise she soon became a top model and worked for designers and brands like Christian Dior, Paco Rabanne, Karl Lagerfield, Chanel, and Versace. She was counted among the 20 highest paid fashion models during the 1990s.

She always had a deep love for music and in 1997 she quit modeling to focus on her music career. She sent some of her songs to Julien Clerc who based six tracks of his album ‘Si jetais elle’ on them.

She released her debut album ‘Quelqu'un m'a dit’ in 2002. The album peaked at No. 1 on the French Album chart and reached the top ten in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and Chile.

Several songs of her debut album were later featured in the movie ‘Le Divorce’ (2003), American film ‘Conversations with Other Women’ (2005), and ‘(500) Days of Summer’ (2009).

Bruni is a former supermodel once counted among the 20 highest-paid fashion models. As a singer she has one hit French album to her credit and is also well-known in the international social circuit as the wife of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.