Former model and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is trying to insist that a lyric on her new album ‘Comme si de rien n’etait” (As if nothing had happened),’ that references her “30 lovers,” was more of an exaggeration than the truth. She claims to have only had 15 lovers.

The 40-year-old ex-model insists the controversial lyrics “my 30 loversâ€? were a result of “poetic license.â€?

“It’s not that I had a lot of lovers. It’s that I never hide them. It’s a different thing. I have not one day of regret,” she told Paris Match. She says in actuality she has had 15 lovers.

Before marrying 53-year-old President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, Bruni dated a number of high-profile celebrities, including rockers Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.

Not a huge difference between fifteen or thirty. She was a foxy model that bedded some of the biggest celebrities in the world. She is now married to the leader of a major country and is using the fame associated with being France’s first lady to help give her career a bit of a second wind. I find no fault in that and admire that she is still trying to shake it up, rather than fade into the distance with age.

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