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Michelle to Carla: Being First Lady Is 'Hell'

Two new books will likely embarrass both first ladies

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 16, 2010 1:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – Just in time for election season, a story Michelle Obama can't possibly be happy to see: In a new book, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy claims Obama told her that being first lady is "hell. I can't stand it!" (The White House and the French Embassy in Washington deny that Obama said any such thing, the AP reports.) Carla and the Ambitious, which was reportedly written in collaboration with the French first lady, is "wildly indiscreet," the Daily Mail reports; the French Embassy says Bruni-Sarkozy "distances herself completely" from the book, out tomorrow.

Another book, an unauthorized biography of Bruni-Sarkozy, details the apparently chilly relationship between the first ladies, alleging Bruni-Sarkozy sees Obama as a rival. Michelle is "the only one in (Carla's) eyes able to challenge her for the title of the world's sexiest and most glamorous first lady," Besma Lahouri claims in Carla: A Secret Life. For more scandalous tell-all revelations about Bruni-Sarkozy, click here.

A copy of Carla Et Les Ambitieux or Carla and the Ambitious written by Michael Darmon and Yves Derai is displayed in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010.
A copy of "Carla Et Les Ambitieux" or "Carla and the Ambitious" written by Michael Darmon and Yves Derai is displayed in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010.   (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
This June 6, 2009 file photo shows French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, right, and US first lady Michelle Obama, reacting  during an arrival ceremony at the Prefecture of Caen, northwestern France.
This June 6, 2009 file photo shows French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, right, and US first lady Michelle Obama, reacting during an arrival ceremony at the Prefecture of Caen, northwestern France.   (AP Photo/Bob Edme,File)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 14 comments
Facts
Sep 18, 2010 12:05 AM CDT
Who is stupid enough to believe that? Michelle Obama is an educated woman with 2 children to care for and a husband that looks at her proudly. She is intelligent, successful and is the first lady like or not!
FORREAL
Sep 16, 2010 11:45 PM CDT
Love all your comments! But really....Carla is worried about Michelle. She is ugly as shit. Only the media says how pretty she is. I must be a beauty queen then. She is a Big stupid lookng oaf. And he is an idiot. I can't wait till they stop ruining the US
paul123
Sep 16, 2010 8:56 PM CDT
She's probably just bored.

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