Carla Bruni: I’ve been in therapy for the past eight years

Posted by lena on Oct 12, 2009 in News | 0 comments

As the First Lady of France, she has beauty, wealth and enormous influence.
Yet Carla Bruni has apparently admitted to requiring the services of a psychotherapist for the past eight years.
The former supermodel is said to have made the confession during a filming of a documentary about her life for French television.
Details are scant about what psychological problems the wife of president Nicolas Sarkozy actually suffers from.
France’s Plurielles.fr website, which said it had seen clips of the programme, said: ‘Bruni will bare her soul to the French people.
‘She is turning the tradions of how French First Ladies have behaved on their head.
‘For the first time ever, a serving First Lady will speak on television about the reasons which drove her to seek therapy eight years ago.
‘The questions that she will answer include why she sought the help of a therapist, what happened during the sessions and why she has continued them for so long.’
Miss Bruni, 41, has been constantly in the media spotlight since marrying Mr Sarkozy almost two years ago.
Nude photos from her earlier career as a model are regularly published in French magazines and newspapers.
She has courted controversy with frequent remarks about her string of ex-lovers, and regular ‘undiplomatic quips’ about her husband.
She has been accused of driving Mr Sarkozy to physical collapse with a gruelling fitness and diet regime.
And she was recently branded the ‘power behind the throne’ of French politics by wielding too much influence over her smitten husband.
She is even said to have influenced his choice of appointing her friend Frederic Mitterrand as culture minister.
Mitterand is currently embroiled in a sex scandal after confessing to hiring male prostitutes in Thailand while also pleading for the release of film director Roman Polanski – currently fighting extradiction to the US on 30-year-old child sex charges.
The French media is now expecting another flood of revelations when her confessions about her eight years in therapy are broadcast later this month.
France’s Purepeople website said: “She is so unpredictable and can be so open about her life, that there is no knowing what she is going to say.
‘We do not know if President Sarkozy has seen the footage, but we are sure he must have vetted it. Either way, journalists are simply waiting with bated breath.’
source: dailymail.co.uk