The higher they climb...
She never quite managed the La Marianne or Madonna image she so desperately hoped for and upon Sarkosy's oust from office, her social climb was fait accompli.
No could deny the allure of the Italian Industrial heiress (or, heiress to a Brazilian grocery magnate, depending on the day of the week), Carla Bruni. Her charms were well documented and disseminated amongst the likes of Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and finally laid to rest upon the diminutive French President, Nicolas Sarkosy.
She never quite managed the La Marianne or Madonna image she so desperately hoped for and upon Sarkosy's oust from office, her social climb was fait accompli.
Her natural beauty and fresh look was forever ruined by plastic surgery, lots of it and badly advised. No graceful aging here. It was as the First Lady of France was clinging on to youth, to relevance, social power, something, anything. And it was all for nothing.
It's unfair to compare her to Marie Antoinette and her guillotine fate (unfair to Marie Antoinette anyway) and Bruni's demise, lapped up by the press. Bruni carefully crafted her rise to the top whereas Marie Antoinette had a lot less say in her political fate.
In the end, I suppose, the cruelest end would be oblivion from the press. Carla Bruni? Who?
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