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G-8 wives: Who's the prettiest of them all?
June 8, 2007
Everyone knows the G-8 husbands and one wife -- worlds leaders, all -- but do you know their spouses? We present the G8 better-halves, and leave it to you tell us who you think is the prettiest of them (our vote goes for the first image, obviously).
Cecilia Sarkozy, the 49-year-old French First Lady, is a former model (you can make that out from the way she walks the G8 red carpet as if it were a ramp) and PR executive.
She is also verry unconventional. Soon after her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, was elected President last month, she said, 'I don't see myself as a first lady, it bores me. I prefer going round in trousers and cowboy boots. I don't fit the mould.'
Naturally, then, their marriage has seen a fair share of ups and downs. In 2005, she left Sarkozy -- the couple met at her first wedding, after which she was wooed for 12 years before she said yes -- for an advertising executive in New York, reconciling a few months later. But she was conspicuous by her absence during her husband's critical hour, his election campaign.
So no one was really surprised when she went AWOL from the wives' programme at the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, on Thursday.
Image: Cecilia Sarkozy arrives at the Rostock-Laage airport on June 6 for the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Also see: G-8, a reality check for Dr Manmohan Singh
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