French first lady turned to analysis in mourning

Published: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 11:10 p.m. MST
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During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.

But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove into therapy "body and soul," and has since spent many years in analysis, she told the makers of a French documentary broadcast Saturday.

The documentary "La premiere seance" ("The First Session") features people talking about the reasons that pushed them to go into analysis and their experiences on the psychiatrist's couch.

Other celebrities featured on the program included Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and filmmaker Claude Chabrol.

"I didn't know anything about psychoanalysis and didn't think I needed it. I lived in total action, in youth, completely outside psychoanalysis until the age of 28," Bruni-Sarkozy told documentary director Gerard Miller — himself a psychoanalyst.

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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrives for a tour of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on Sept. 25.

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