Joe Cocker's hit song "You are
so Beautiful" was recorded in 1974 about the time that the Italian heiress
to the
CEAT tire manufacturing fortune, Carla Gilberta Bruni, left Italy at age
seven to live in France. So it is unlikely that Joe had Carla in mind when
he recorded the song. However, even though Marge Simpson sings it to Homer
at the end of the Simpsons episode in Simpson and Delila, that has
not dissuaded 96.3% of all Frenchman who believe that it should only
be sung to Carla. And there was one Frenchman in particular who made sure
that his version of the song was the only one Carla ever listened to,
namely,
Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of France married the former singer, actress,
and former model in February 2008. Carla had
previously been one of Mick Jigger's estimated 3000 lovers and once
reflected, "I thought I’d never fall in love with someone else."
Carla's incredible beauty made her one of
France's twenty highest-paid fashion models in the 1990s, earning $7.5 million a
year. While modeling, her dates with Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger were
widely covered by the press. Although Carla is legally the
daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and
composer Alberto
Bruni Tedeschi. However, in 2008 she told Vanity Fair that her
biological father is Itali Maurizio Remmert, a classical guitarist who had a
six-year affair with her mother.Carla gave up her successful modeling career
for a music career Her 2002 debut album, Quelqu'un m'a dit,
was an immediate success Three songs from the album appear in the
film Conversations with Other Women (2005) and the title track
was featured in the Le Divorce (2003) and in 500 Days of Summer
(2009), After two other successful albums, Carla recorded a duet with
Harry Connick, Jr. of the Beatles song "And I Love Her."
Carla is also a leading AIDS activist since
her brother died from the disease. She has been critical of Pope Benedict
XVI and the Catholic Church's AIDS pronouncements, According to Le
Canard Enchainé, Carla was asked by Vatican officials not to join her
husband in an official visit for fear that the Italian newspapers would
reprint a famous nude photograph of her that sold at auction for $91,000 in
1993.
Many of her worldwide fans saw the former First Lady
of France in Woody Allen's film, Midnight in Paris (2011), as a guide
at the Musée Rodin, who discussed sculptor Auguste Rodin and in which
we see a glimpse of her spectacular legs . This is a perfect segue to
her birthday celebratory recipe, Frog's Legs. The French has been called
"Frogs" for centuries because they eat and are the largest importer of frogs
legs. |