Five Reasons Why Carla Bruni-sarkozy Is A Regally
Graceful™ Woman
Author: Guru Kaur

Carla Bruni first came onto my radar screen when my mother had
her first stroke. That was in 1995. We were talking about what
images of a woman's whole body she wanted to have on the
dreamboard that we were making for her to go by her bed. At the
time, my mother had just been accepted at Central St Martin's,
the illustrious art school in London and as part of her
portfolio she had been studying female nudes. As I went through
all my mother's art stuff looking for the image of "the most
beautiful young Italian woman", as my mother had described her.
I wondered if I would indeed be able to pick Carla Bruni out
from the boxful of images.

There was no question. As I picked up the postcard of the
now-famous photograph of Carla Bruni, it was the only one which
fitted my mother's description. I was intrigued by her. As I
flicked through fashion magazines I would pick her out on the
catwalk. Even on the page her nobility, grace and poise shone
through. Of course, in the gossipy magazines she also featured
as she was romantically linked with some of the most famous, or
indeed infamous, studs around. Although some of the comments
about her were far from flattering I realised that each man she
was photographed with believed, truly believed, that he was the
only man in the world, not just her world, but the whole world.

Sarkozy and his relationship with his now ex-wife has also made
for interesting and illuminating reading. Much has been made of
how she left him for another man, then was persuaded back to the
marital bed while he stood for President, and then how she left
him again. Sarkozy undoubtedly, has that Gallic gene of loving
being around ladies. Even the French press, with their stringent
privacy laws, were loving the guessing game of who's the next
Mrs S and the new First Lady of France. Monsieur Le President
was happy to give them something to distract them from the woes
of the state of the French nation.

When Sarkozy introduced Carla Bruni to the world as his new
inamorata, there was a collective intake of breath. The press
focussed on the sheer magnitude of her previous male conquests.
I'm not entirely sure of what the mood of French women was, but
in England there was a lot of "she's not that great, really I
don't know what the fuss is, she's destroyed some marriages
along the way, broken lots of hearts, and it can't be natural to
be that beautiful." Bitchy in other words.

As soon as the news broke I was hooked. Here was a man, whom
his advisers leaked to the press, was very low, fed-up and
making their lives miserable. Here was a man who needs a woman.
Nothing else would do for him. Here was a woman, of breeding,
success, education in many arts and grace who needed to be
stretched to enter a new phase in her life, to conquer the ennui
she felt. Here was a nation in dire need of the inspiration of a
woman to rally around.

And, of course, the British have played their part. It became
known that the Queen would expect to follow protocol in
welcoming the new French First Lady, as the President's lawful
wedded wife. I'm sure that love at first sight had already taken
care of that, but it's somehow nice to imagine that the Royal
standards were upheld in this story.

The morning that M et Mme Le President de France arrived in
London, Christie's the auctioneers, were launching a sale of
some photographs of the new Mrs. Sarkozy, nude. It's not
everyday that you go on an official visit knowing that everyone
has already seen you with your kit off while they were eating
their marmalade and toast and knocking back a stiff cup of
coffee. She put a spring in the step of every Englishman before
the day had even got under way.

By mid-afternoon the photographs of the French State Visit were
landing in our in-boxes. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, dressed so
innocently and demurely with a glint in her eye, then melted all
the hearts of England. Even the women. At first there was a
little bitching - she looked like an air-hostess, she was too
thin - but it lasted as long as out-of-season snow and by the
evening we were all hers. The harshest thing we Englishwomen had
to accept, because the evidence was right before our eyes, was
that collectively, royal, ministerial or
the-woman-on-the-street, we all looked dowdy, crumpled, chubby,
frumpy, and inappropriately inelegant.

Look around at the women upon whom we as a society lavish our
attention. We all know examples of women born into rich
industrial families or aristocracy. We see women with highly
successful careers. We obsess over the lives of women in the
fashion and music industries. How many of them inspire you
because they are truly elegant and graceful women?

And this is what Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is. Being a super-model is
no walk in the park. Being around such famous men as Eric
Clapton, Mike Jagger and Donald Trump I guess is no walk in the
park either. Being born into a successful family with the
probable pressures to perform probably isn't as lovely as it
sounds. Being brought up a foreigner in Paris isn't so fantastic
either. And these are all the breeding ground for what made her
inspire not just the French to rekindle their rallying cry to
Marianne, their national mythical muse, but also the English to
raise their feminine game.

Yesterday the Sunday Times had a photo feature on Carla Bruni,
shot by Claude Gassian, a photographer whom she knows. Sadly the
online version only includes one cropped image. The one which
will have had every man in England wistfully gazing into his
soggy cornflakes as he distractedly poured too much milk into
the bowl because he had his eyes elsewhere, is the one I've
featured here. Every man longs, needs, wants, no more than that,
he yearns to have that power to address his world (here it's
Sarkozy addressing both the Houses of Parliament, from that you
can read what you like into Anglo-French relations) with the
most beautiful woman in the world, successful in her own right
sitting behind him, giving him 100% attention, supporting and
not competing with him.

Every woman needs to look very carefully at this image and
assess how she supports, inspires and uplifts the men in her
life without competition. For this reason alone I vote this one
of the iconic images of our time.

Five reasons why Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is a Regally Graceful™
Woman:

1. She is successful in her own right
2. She knows how to make a man feel as though he is the only
man in the world
3. She knows how to dress sensuously so that every man wants
her but all know that she is beyond them
4. She sits elegantly, walks with poise, and engages alluringly

5. She looks as good clothed at 40 as she did nude at 25


About The Author: Guru Kaur is young, British and has embraced
the most valuable aspects of spiritual enlightenment and
lifestyle from Eastern cultures. She is renowned for giving very
straight talking guidance in highly practical terms and many
lives have been touched by her love of life.
http://www.gurukaur.com