French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has revealed she dons disguises so she can travel around Paris without being recognised.u00a0The wife of Nicolas Sarkozy admitted to occasionally wearing a wig so that she can use the Metro in the French capital without being spotted. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/apr/bruni.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 452px; " /> Born this way: French First Lady Carla Bruni said that in terms of her media image, she is like Lady Gaga. File pics Bruni-Sarkozy, speaking to a French political publication, also compared herself to Lady Gaga while discussing her image within the media. In one of her more bizarre interviews as she tried to boost Sarkozy&rsquo;s re-election hopes, Bruni-Sarkozy (44) said that she is often in disguise &lsquo;literally as well as figuratively&rsquo;. Asked if she considered being the First Lady a difficult job, she said, &ldquo;Not really. I&rsquo;ve been, since the age of 20, well separated from my public image. It&rsquo;s greatly helped me that I&rsquo;ve been a model and then a singer. If I hadn&rsquo;t had the experience of media exposure, that would have been harder. Notoriety does not weight heavily on me, and then I disguise myself literally as well as figuratively.&rdquo; <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/apr/gaga.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 566px; " /> She added, &ldquo;With a wig, nobody recognises me on the Metro. Recently, my bag was searched on a visit to the Marine Museum.&rdquo; She said that in the past, she had told Sarkozy that when it came to the press, Sarkozy was an amateur. &ldquo;My affair with Mick [Jagger] stayed secret for eight years. We passed through all the capitals of the world and no photographer ever caught us.&rdquo; Bruni-Sarkozy went on to discuss her apparent transformation into a loyal political wife along the lines of the late French First Lady, Claude Pompidou. But she added that with her media profile, she has a very different public image. She added, &ldquo;I loved Mrs. Pompidou and I do not see that it is ridiculous to devote yourself to good works. Other than that, next to Mrs Pompidou, with my experience with the media, I am Lady Gaga!&rdquo; Asked directly if she deliberately played the &lsquo;ravishing idiot&rsquo;, Carla replied, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t play anything, but I know my limits, and that&rsquo;s not exactly the sign of an idiot. Certain subjects like economics are beyond me, I won&rsquo;t pretend otherwise.&rdquo; Others in disguise Michelle Obama, the US First Lady, admitted to going on &ldquo;covert&rdquo; shopping trips in an effort to escape the confines of the White House. In an interview with late-night comedian David Letterman, the First Lady said she was able to go for &ldquo;little jaunts out&rdquo; to the horror of her Secret Service bodyguards. u00a0

In an interview, France's First Lady reveals that she often wears a wig so she can use the Metro without being recognised, compares herself to Lady Gaga

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