Born on 23 December 1968 , Carla Bruni Tedeschi is the heiress of a big tire manufacturing business in her native of Torino, Italy. Carla probably didn’t even need to pursue the lucrative modeling career, given the fortune that awaited her. Not to mention music and professional singing.

She says now about one of her songs: “My life in modeling was all about “Sois belle et tais-toi,” and so to sing that song was like a symbol.”

Now it comes as no surprize that Carla Bruni is one of the world’s most admired and photographed models, and one of the most highly paid. Carla, in her last full year as a model, made $7.5 million US in 1998, according to BusinessAge magazine. Though her modeling career is coming to an end, she still remains in the limelight in all possible media thanks to a never ending series of high-profile romances. It is enoiugh to mention those with Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump… Who else should be added here?

Carla Bruni: top and never-fading model, fashion maven and singer