First Lady told to play second fiddle

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The Italian-born aristocrat, 44, whose former lovers include Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump, is trying to come over as a demure and devoted wife at home with her baby while "my man" is campaigning. The Italian-made Tods have been replaced by Ugg boots and the Dior dresses by the sort of grey jumpers with which the working-class voters her husband is wooing can identify. No longer does Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy profess to a passion for Yeats, Auden and Dorothy Parker, whose poems she set to music in her second album. Instead the singer-guitarist claims to have developed an overriding interest in soap operas. La Carla nouvelle was in evidence this week when she told Le Nouvel Observateur magazine that she was incapable of advising Mr Sarkozy on a single matter of state because she knew nothing of politics or economics. jimmy choo ugg Indeed, she even claimed that her only role in his re-election campaign was to give him "tenderness and love". Whenever she asked what she could do to help him to win a second term, the answer from his advisers was "nothing", she replied. The magazine said that the supermodel-turned-singer - who once claimed that monogamy bored her - was playing the part of a "ravishing idiot" to help Mr Sarkozy's cause. The woman's weekly Elle suggested she was trying to look "bird-brained". The transformation of Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy - who is anything but bird-brained, according to those who know her - may say more about the French President than about the first lady. "Every intervention she makes is designed to transmit the same message that the Sarkozys are simple people," Florence Vielcanet, director of the PR agency Parlons Social, said. "The reason is that he needs to fight against the mistake he made at the beginning of his term of office, which was to be seen as a friend of the wealthy." Stephane Rozes, the founder of the consultancy Conseils, Analyses et Perspectives, said that Mr Sarkozy's flashy style had shocked voters who saw him as undignified. The presidential couple were now seeking to show the "restraint" wanted of them. The strategy is also intended to highlight the head of state's newfound emotional stability since his divorce and the courtship of Mrs BruniSarkozy during his first year in office.

It comes with Francois Hollande, the Socialist favourite to win this month's election, campaigning alongside the two women to have shared his adult life: Segolene Royale, his former partner and mother of his four children - who was herself the party's candidate in 2007 -- and Valerie Trierweiler, his present partner. Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's home in Paris's plush 16th district bears testimony to her true nature. Alongside her piano this week were novels by the 20th-century Austrian author Stefan Zweig, albums by Barbara, an enigmatic French pop singer who died in 1997, and the complete works of the Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar. Having postponed the release of her fourth album, partly because of the birth of Giulia, her daughter, last October, and partly because of the presidential election, she is said to be writing a book about the campaign. Almost inevitably, it is in verse. Yet her public appearances over the past couple of months have sought to depict a very different woman. In an interview with TV Mag, a listings guide, she said she spent her evenings with Giulia on her knee watching Plus Belle la Vie, a soap opera, and L'Amour Est Dans le Pre, a French version of Farmer Wants a Wife. She was photographed for the interview in the sort of grey top that any French woman of the same age might wear at home. Le Nouvel Observateur said that the former catwalk star had taken selfsacrifice to the point of renouncing her designer dresses in favour of public appearances in shapeless trousers and little make-up. She told the magazine that in her quest for an ordinary life she took the underground disguised in a wig so that no one would recognise her. As for politics, "I am incapable of giving an opinion," she said. "I pity (my husband). He's got the most apolitical animal possible." Marc Vanghelder, the chairman of the public relations agency Leaders & Opinion, said that Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had more nous than she claimed. "Her role is to improve Nicolas Sarkozy's personal image because it is his main problem. Opinion polls show that French voters approve of Sarkozy the politician, but they do not like Sarkozy the man and that is where she can be useful." Mrs Sarkozy-Bruni does not always get it right. Last month, she provoked hilarity by claiming: "We are modest people. We eat pasta, too." Air max nike, jordan shoes, UGG Boots Source : http://www.onlinestoresmarket.com/