Carla Bruni

"And if you're performing, singing, you can't quite let go, [you can't] start dancing like you want, in case the strap on your dress slips. And a country falls. It would be a curse, falling in love with a man who is president, and yet you fall in love, and so there is nothing you can do about it! What a dilemma!"

— Vanessa Paradis says she feels bad for Carla Bruni-Sarkozy because no matter how hard you try, you can't stop love, even if it means falling for a president and never being able to dance until your bra strap shows. I guess dating Johnny Depp doesn't present quite the same dilemma.

An awkward moment we couldn't help but share between French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and a very pregnant Samantha Cameron, wife of Britain's new prime minister, today in London. The Sarkozys visited London to commemorate the 70th anniversary of President Charles de Gaulle's famous wartime broadcast to Nazi-occupied France, which is believed to have played a vital role in winning World War II.

With a raspy voice and eager attitude, Carla Bruni asks two TV hosts, including Jean-Paul Gaultier, how to say "put your finger in my bottom?" in seven different languages. Luckily the Hot International Love and Sex Guides, which she brought with her on this resurrected episode of Eurotrash, had the answer! Oh la la.

When it comes to quickies, "don't keep the Queen waiting" is probably a good rule to follow. According to a new book about French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, the first lady kept a senior head of state waiting while she and the prez did the deed.

Later, Bruni supposedly asked Michelle Obama if she had ever found herself in a similar situation: "Bruni wanted to know if, like the Sarkozys, Michelle and the President had ever kept anyone waiting that way," writes Jonathan Alter in The Promise: President Obama, Year One. The Sarkozys are known for their lateness, and the Daily Mail speculates it was an appointment with the Queen that was delayed.

Hey, when you lead a busy life, sometimes a quickie is the perfect fix for a relationship sex slump. To find out how you can make it quick without getting caught, read more

Last week, we told you about a first for France: a prostitute named famous clients in French magazine Paris Match. Until then, sex and scandal never went together. There were rumblings, sure, but France remained unfazed.

When the same magazine reported Nicolas Sarkozy's dissolving marriage in 2007, interest swirled, but a press scandal did not storm. A similar story in the US could end a politician's career by the weekend (can't perform the job with such drama), but the only person to lose his job was the editor of Paris Match.

The French, I've always thought, were too liberated, too urbane, and too, well, French to pander and capitulate to the salacious. Sex is no scandal. But it's not because there's no French appetite for smut — the Paris Match issue that reported the Sarkozys' divorce was one of its best-selling issues ever. So what is it? Find out after the jump

• Carla Bruni ate two hot dogs for lunch in NYC — New York Times
• Lesbian bondage-themed club scandal rocks RNC — The Daily Beast
• As Hitler pic hits web, Jesse James in rehab where Sandra filmed 28 Days — PopSugar
• Tiger Woods's mistresses get a photo spread — Vanity Fair
• Pro wrestling comes out of the closet — Double X
• South African runner Caster Semenya plans her return — The Guardian
• Another twin suicide attack rocks Russia — Huffington Post

• Carla Bruni abandons a nation by looking tired — Jezebel
• 10 greatest sex lives in history — Nerve
• The breakup speech every girl deserves to hear — Lemondrop
• 10 best young adult books for grownups — Flavorwire
• NSFW American Apparel photo-shoot spoof — Huffington Post Style
• The women of the FBI's 10 most wanted list — Vanity Fair Daily
• DrSugar weighs in: what happens when you go off the pill — FitSugar

"He asked me to be in his next film. I don’t know for what role, but I said yes. . . . I'm not an actress at all. Maybe I'll be totally horrible but I can't in my life miss an opportunity like this."

— Carla Bruni told France's Canal Plus television in an interview Monday that she agreed to star in Woody Allen's next film, which will probably be set in France. Looks like he finally found a new, above-40 muse!