I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.