December 23
Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi's  Birthday
 

 

Joe Cocker's hit song "You are so Beautiful" was recorded in 1974 about the time that the Italian heiress to the CEAT tire manufacturing fortune, Carla Gilberta Bruni, left Italy at age seven to live in France. So it is unlikely that Joe had Carla in mind when he recorded the song. However, even though Marge Simpson sings it to Homer at the end of the Simpsons episode in Simpson and Delila, that has not dissuaded 96.3% of all Frenchman who believe that it should only be sung to Carla. And there was one Frenchman in particular who made sure that his version of the song was the only one Carla ever listened to, namely,  Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of France married the former singer, actress, and former model in February 2008. Carla had previously been one of Mick Jigger's estimated 3000 lovers and once reflected, "I thought I’d never fall in love with someone else." Carla's incredible beauty made her one  of France's twenty highest-paid fashion models in the 1990s, earning $7.5 million a year. While modeling, her dates with  Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger were widely covered by the press.   Although Carla is legally the daughter of Italian concert pianist Marisa Borini and composer Alberto Bruni Tedeschi. However, in 2008 she told Vanity Fair that her biological father is Itali Maurizio Remmert, a classical guitarist who had a six-year affair with her mother. Carla gave up her successful modeling career for a music career Her 2002 debut album,  Quelqu'un m'a dit, was an immediate success  Three songs from the album appear in  the film Conversations with Other Women (2005) and the title track was featured in the Le Divorce (2003) and in 500 Days of Summer (2009), After two other successful albums, Carla recorded a duet with Harry Connick, Jr. of the Beatles song "And I Love Her." Carla is also a leading AIDS activist since her brother died from the disease. She has been critical of Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church's AIDS pronouncements,  According to Le Canard Enchainé, Carla was asked by Vatican officials not to join her husband in an official visit for fear that the Italian newspapers would reprint a famous nude photograph of her that sold at auction for $91,000 in 1993. Many of her worldwide fans saw the former First Lady of France in Woody Allen's film, Midnight in Paris (2011), as a guide at the Musée Rodin, who discussed sculptor Auguste Rodin and  in which we see a glimpse of her spectacular legs . This is a perfect segue to her birthday celebratory recipe, Frog's Legs. The French has been called "Frogs" for centuries because they eat and are the largest importer of frogs legs.

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