Former model, singer, and the France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy shocked the French public (and many in the modelling and music world, I'd bet) when she fell in love and married the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, after a whirwind two month romance. 

I don't know what he has but he has something very protective that I
never found before, maybe because I was much more attracted to artists."

But whatever they had would not be denied.  Dating an elected official took some getting used to for Carla.

I realised people were shocked when I first started dating, because
presidents don’t date and I understand that. But it’s just another world for
me because I come from the modelling and the music – we can date for ever,
we don’t have to get married."

Part of the shock undoubtedly came from the fact that Sarkozy was married at the time.

[I]t was the first time a president got
divorced, usually they don’t get divorced because that’s not good for their
position."

Carla seems to think this is the norm for men in their fifties, though.

'So I guess Nicolas is having a life like a normal 50-year-old man:
he can get divorced and he can get married again,' she says."

Publicity spin obviously exists throughout the world.

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