HERB ‘GROG’ AND VAPING
CARLA BRUNI, 49
PERSONAL LIFE: Born in Turin, this model, singer and actress has been married since 2008 to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Shot to fame in the late Eighties, and reportedly had a relationship with Eric Clapton. Has two children, five-year-old Giulia and 16year-old Aurelien. Said to be worth well over £10 million.
SKIN CARE: Incredibly smooth and clear skin, considering her years of smoking. Appears to have had Botox and fillers, but says she uses Hydranorme, a French face cream by La Roche-Posay. Besides, it’s not all about looks: ‘Wrinkles without wisdom are boring. I want to become mature. I want to become wise,’ she says.
HAIR: She entrusts her famous chestnut locks to leading stylist David Mallett. A cut and blow dry with the man himself in his Paris salon costs about £250. Other clients include Kate Winslet, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sharon Stone.
EXERCISE: Has a personal trainer, Julie Imperiali, whose approach is holistic, combining yoga and Pilates, as well as focusing on the pelvic floor muscles, which Imperiali calls ‘the floor of the house’.
Bruni has upped her game with the passing years: ‘I do ballet, Pilates, yoga. When I was younger, I would just sit around smoking and eat McDonald’s.’
DIET: Imperiali says that Bruni has a little of what she fancies — a very French approach — and is also said to enjoy a ‘Biooster Grog’, an orange and herb beauty drink served at The Gabriel Hotel in Paris. Bruni loathed putting on more than two stone when pregnant with Giulia. ‘I’m kind of tall, with good-size shoulders, and when I am 40 pounds overweight, I don’t even look fat, I just look ugly.’
STRANGE AGEING: She vapes. ‘It’s delicious . . . It’s so nice that I think it has to be toxic. You never find something very delicious that is completely untoxic, right?’