For a month now, everybody has been speculating about the French First Lady’s womb. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy stepped out in April looking… bumpy. Very pregnant-ish. Then, last week, Carla’s father-in-law (Sarko Senior) “confirmed” the news in an interview. I bought the odd confirmation, although I’m still kind of mystified as to why Carla and Sarko wouldn’t just announce the pregnancy in a traditional way instead of having Sarko Senior do it. Some of you even had some theories about that, like there could be a question of paternity or something. Which is a funny thought, but come on! Carla is too smart for that, right? If she’s knocked up (she is), then it’s got to be her husband’s kid, right?!? Anyway, the latest news comes from yet another revelation from some close to the Sarkos… Carla is expecting a boy!

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is expecting a boy, a close friend of Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed, just days after the French president’s father let slip his daughter-in-law is pregnant.

Jacques Séguéla – an advertising tycoon who brought the presidential couple together in 2007 at a dinner party – disclosed the sex of the child in an interview with a Belgian newspaper.

He told Brussels daily Le Soir: “I have it on good authority that the baby will a boy.”

It will be the couple’s first child. France’s 43-year-old first lady already has a nine-year-old son, Aurélien, with the media philosopher Raphaël Enthoven.

Mr Sarkozy, 55, has two sons, Pierre, 25, and Jean, 23, from his first marriage to Marie-Dominique Culioli, who he divorced in 1996. He has a 13-year-old son Louis from his second marriage to Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, who he divorced in 2007.

This is not the first time Mr Séguéla has filled the public in on the presidential couple’s private lives. In 2009, he gave a blow-by-blow account of how they met at an impromptu “blind date” soirée, describing the scene as an “unexpected game of seduction between two wild beasts”.

[From The Telegraph]

Odd, right? That this dude – presumably a mutual friend of both the president and Carla – is telling everybody the gender and junk. Perhaps Jacques is the father? Ugh. Yeah, I get it. Carla has a sketchy history. But I have begrudging respect for her. I wish more people followed gossip about her, because she’s fun to write about.

By the way, I’m sure Carla is enormously happy, if she is indeed pregnant with a boy. The way she talked about it, and the way her friends and family talked about, it’s like if she was pregnant with a girl, the whole exercise would have been useless. Is that a French/Italian/European thing? So many centuries of being focused on “the male heir”? There’s nothing wrong with having a daughter! There’s nothing wrong with WANTING a daughter either.

Older photos from before Carla was showing, courtesy of WENN.