I apologize to those of you who were interested in more coverage of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni’s newborn baby girl, Giulia. I thought I was the only one really interested in Carla’s pregnancy, and most of you were totally meh on the birth. I’m happy for them, though, and it’s exciting from a historical standpoint – this is the first time in France’s history that a First Lady has given birth while her husband is in office (the last time a French leader had a baby was… Napoleon!).
Anyway, these are new photos of Carla, Pres. Sarko and baby Giulia at La Lanterne Park in Versailles today. Even though Carla made it sound like she wanted to keep everything about the baby under wraps, I suspected that she would end up doing some of these happy-looking photo ops with the new baby. After all, Sarko is running for re-election, correct? So it’s helpful, at least with my very gauche, American way of viewing politics – if an American president and first lady had a baby while they were in the White House, it would help them out politically. They would look young and vital and interesting, and women would support the first family even more. Do you think it will be the same in France?
Would you like to know more about Giulia? She weighed seven-and-a-half pounds when she was born 12 days ago. She was born in Paris, and it seems like Sarko wasn’t there for a great deal of the labor. After stopping by the hospital, Sarko then left and continued with business of state, which prompted some criticism that he was basically abandoning Carla and their baby. Carla was also the one to make all of the birth announcement stuff, but on her website, not Sarko’s. Carla wrote: “I am deeply touched by the many messages of congratulations that I have received since the birth of our daughter. [We offer the] warmest thanks to all those of you who sent us these tokens of your kindness.”
Oh, and after all of that talk about how much Sarko and Carla wanted a boy and how she was expecting a boy and BOY BOY BOY, I’m so glad they got a girl. And look on the bright side… Carla is probably all liquored up right now. She’s probably smoking some cigs too.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I actually read that Sarko’s team went to great effort to make it look like he wasn’t at the hospital very much, even though he was, as there are some pretty steep economic issues in Europe right now and he didn’t want to appear to be abandoning the meetings around those in order to be with his wife. Looks like he’s in a lose-lose situation though, as he’s getting criticized no matter what!
Nice to see them actually keep the baby covered up in cold weather. It bugs me when you see babies underdressed for the cold.
Love the name! Congrats to them.
in France,it says Sarko was with Carla all the morning then he went to Germany the afternoon and he came back during the night to see the baby and since the birth,he works in low maintenance until now
@ S – # 1: The meeting in Berlin with Germany’s chancellor Dr Merkel had been scheduled earlier and Sarko was there.
It was about the stability of the Euro zone and Europe’s future, so there was no cover-up or anything sinister involved, like you’re implying. Sarko even got a specially made Steiff teddy bear as a gift for Giulia from the chancellor.
germany is owning everyone’s ass now and they need bitches to pay up.
I’m not big into baby paraphenalia, but I think that papoose/carrier/whatever is darling.
Wow she said she was going to protect the baby at all costs and she’s already out it her.
Although, I’m not surprised. Unless you lock your child up in a tower the paps are gonna gets shots of her. I wondered how she was going to manage to protect her child after reading her quotes.
Of course they did. Of course she said she wouldn’t. They are so predictable and are going to use that baby as much as they can.
@Nanea – I wasn’t implying anything sinister at all…just that his advisers wanted to make sure everyone KNEW he was concerned and attentive to the Euro meetings in addition to his wife and baby. That’s political life for you.
Baby slings, the best invention ever. Go Carla. Several things come to mind regarding their daughter being named Giulia. Sarko pretty much made his political career via the Corsicans (his first wife was Corsican) and he’s up for re-election. The patron Saint of Corsica is Giulia, probably no coincidence there. As the post says, the last French leader to have a baby while in office was Napoleon, who was also Corsican.
It would serve CB right if Sarko was ‘absent’ – as Bruni has boasted in the past of stealing her lover Mick Jagger away from his wife straight after Bianca gave birth and the child was only one day old
Selfish Mafia child Bruni and Mafia lawyer Sarko – can’t imagine what their Mafia child might turn out like
They both look more like grandparents than parents!
You should cover this more. The pregnancy is actually an interesting move from a political standpoint with the upcoming French elections and I fully believe Sarkozy was thinking of that with this. Also, no mainstream news in the US really covers them, so more please!
That does not look like a very safe carry. I’ve been baby wearing for more than 14 years and these pictures give me pause. Baby is far too low.
@victoria: China is owning everyone’s asses. Sarko; save Europe, please.
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