CARLA BRUNI - BRUNI ENDS PUBLIC PERFORMANCES AS FRANCE'S FIRST LADY

Model-turned-pop star CARLA BRUNI has put an end to performing her music live while her husband, French president NICOLAS SARKOZY, remains in office.
The 40-year-old beauty followed up her February (08) wedding to Sarkozy with the release her latest album Comme Si de Rien N'etait (As If Nothing Had Happened) last month (Jul08).
And the album has topped the French charts.
Bruni admits she will continue to create new music while she's the country's First Lady, but she insists she has no plans of marketing her songs with live performances - because it would be in poor taste.
She says, "It would be sort of obscene. It's not that I want to use my husband's power to sell my songs. I just don't believe that women should drop everything."