THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has lashed out at Paris Match for publishing photos of the French First Lady with her baby girl Giulia on front page without her or husband Nicolas' consent.
The magazine published the image, taken by the paparazzi and showing the 43-year-old as she walked her daughter to the paediatrician, on its front page. The child's features were airbrushed out.
"I would like to specify that the picture was taken without my consent and I deplore the use of the image of my children just like any aspect of their private life," Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy said on her website.
She did not say whether she would be filing a legal complaint.
Happy to play an increasingly prominent role in her husband's tough presidential re-election campaign, Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy has made it plain that she wishes to keep her five-month old daughter – the first to child to be born to a French president while in office - firmly out of the public spotlight.
In an interview shortly before her daughter's birth, she warned: "I will do everything to protect this infant and I'll be absolutely rigorous. I will never show photos of this child, I will never expose this child. I think exposure to public life is a choice to be made by an adult."
This is the second Sarkozy child to receive unwanted media attention in a week. On Sunday, the President personally apologised to a police woman standing outside the preisdential residence after his youngest son Louis threw a tomato, a marble and other objects at her. » | Henry Samuel | Paris | Thursday, March 15, 2012
