#Carla bruni professional

You have to put on a character, so you can separate your real life from your stage life.’ I understood that.' The last time we spoke, she told me that she credits one of her other starry former boyfriends, Mick Jagger (in her modelling years, she also dated Eric Clapton), with helping overcome her initial performance anxiety. Her 2002 debut album Quelqu’un m’a dit was a surprise smash, a French number one, selling two million copies.

That was the period when Bruni was successfully pivoting from fashion to music. Right now the couple are both in promotional mode, he flogging the book written in their ‘family home’ on the Cote d’Azur, she talking up her new, self-titled album, a set of self-penned, very French, rather lovely guitar-and-piano pop songs. Today, she shoos him away with a 'Bye bye!' 'He is very entertaining!' she laughs as Sarkozy’s head pushes back in for a smooch. Then, the perennially relaxed Bruni beamed lovingly at her husband and his boyish ways.

#Carla bruni professional

Our strictly professional menage a trois has met before, in person, in that same room three years ago. 'In my family there is not only my wife who is !' he exclaims, referring to his recently published lockdown-written book Le Temps des Tempetes ( Stormy Times). 'How are you?' asks former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in English considerably more accented than his 52-year-old Italian-born wife’s. 'My husband doesn’t get the Zoom!' the supermodel-turned-singer-songwriter smiles as a noble head and well-dressed torso bob into view, filling my laptop screen. ' Ah, tu veux dire bonjour, non?' an effortlessly elegant Carla Bruni, vape in hand, is saying quizzically to someone off-camera in the study in her appropriately chic Parisian home. A loved one Zoom-bombs an important work call, clattering into the room as we’re trying to look and sound professional on screen.