Julia Sarkozy, a teenager who came out of the shadows

Pink glasses, denim shorts and a Céline bra. Julia Sarkozy is transformed in one of her latest videos. And above all, openly. Protected for a long time from the notoriety of her parents, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the 12-year-old girl has become a master of her image. She created an Instagram account in July 2023, @valentine.du.delta, named after her bay, which today has over 8,200 followers. A pre-teen documents her passion for horse riding.

In one of her latest posts, published at the end of June, Julia Sarkozy reveals images of a shoot with her stallion of the day, Élégante du delta. The teenager looks super stylish as she wears a strapless pale pink tulle dress she bought when she was 8. And take a position on the horse’s side or back. In another post shared on Monday August 19, she was photographed next to a horse in the Camargue.

Great communicator

The message is clear: Julia Sarkozy is no longer the little girl that her mother Carla Bruni once immortalized from behind. By the age of 12, the pre-teen has taken over his own communication. Her Instagram account features posts about her show jumping competitions, her photo shoots, and other purchases at equestrian equipment stores. At the beginning of May, he announced that he became the ambassador of one of them, Equestrian Sports.

Mixed family

We first saw his face on this same account in July 2023 via photos posted by the Mesnuls pony club, which have now been deleted. We saw a little girl with a bomb while jumping on a white horse. Photos that Carla Bruni-Sarkozy shared in a story the next day, in which we can barely see the little girl’s head.

Two months later, Julia Sarkozy published her first photo on the social network. Portraits that become increasingly clear, a thousand miles away from the images once shared by her mother. Since her birth on October 19, 2011 at the Muet Clinic, Julia Sarkozy has truly lived in the spotlight. However, it is difficult to maintain your anonymity when your name is Sarkozy. The young lady comes from the union of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni and the latter from a large mixed family.

Thus, he has four half-brothers: Pierre and Jean, from the former president’s first marriage to Marie-Dominique Couliol; Louis, his third son, was born of a union with Cecilia Attias; and, finally, Aurelien, the fruit of Carla’s relationship with the philosopher Raphael Enthoven. So it was to be expected that the birth of Julia Sarkozy, the youngest of the siblings, would pique the interest of Internet users. A now-deleted website devoted to the little girl’s life, a Wikipedia page and dozens of Facebook and Twitter pages appeared online just hours after her birth.

Cavaliere Beach

We also remember the day when he came into the world, from behind, anyway. That was in July 2014 at the aptly named Cavalier Beach. We saw her splashing in the water with a pink armband captured by the paparazzi. Two years later, in April 2016, she appeared in a video streamed by a celebrity website X17 Online At the airport of Los Angeles, he curled up in his mother’s arms and again under the flashes. “Are you smiling at them? It’s ridiculous,” responded Carla Bruni. Before adding, English.He likes it, I don’t know why. (He likes it, I don’t know why. Editor’s note)” In short, at the age of 3, Julia is already a real star.

In private, the atmosphere was just as lively then. Her grandmother, Marisa Bruni-Tedeschi, actually narrates This is ParisIn June 2016, at these moments, when Nicolas Sarkozy “goes on all fours behind his daughter in the living room while she turns off the light, hides and tells her: “Come and fetch me.” A month later, Carla Bruni published a photo of a little girl on Instagram for the first time. In this photo, the child is seen from the back, wearing a navy blue swimsuit, lying on the beach in Corsica. “L’amore della mia vita – Beyond beauty – Blondes are more fun – Gift of childhood (translate: Love of My Life – Beyond Sweetness – Blondes Are More Fun – The Gift of Childhood, NLDR),” we can read in the caption of the Instagram post.

A singing singer

And if Julia Sarkozy, over the years, has shown that she is gifted in riding, then Carla Bruni first emphasized her talent for vocalization. “She loves songs, I think she wants to be a singer, she sings all day,” the artist said in 2017, in columns. Femina version. In the same year, mother and daughter paid tribute to the founding father of rock and roll, Chuck Berry, who died at the age of 90. In a post shared by Carla Bruni, 5-year-old Julia, hiding under an oversized hat, sang: Johnny B. Good with his mother. The petite blonde then performed backing vocals, repeating to the beat (or almost).”Go, go!» snapping his fingers.

In February 2021, Carla Bruni also shared a video of her daughter’s recovery SnowmanBy Sia. In this “The Mask Singer” style sequence, the little girl, wearing her high bun and shot from behind, sang the song again, accompanied by her mother on guitar. “What a joy to accompany you when you sing my love… Julia and Snowmancan we read in the post title? Special thanks to cameraman Nicolas Sarkozy.” Eight months later, Carla Bruni posted another sequence where they covered the title together run away by singer Aurora, which was trending on TikTok at the time.

happy

Meanwhile, Carla Bruni has repeatedly shared highlights of their daily life as a family. The video recording of the party organized on the occasion of Julia Sarkozy’s sixth birthday in 2017 is noteworthy. In this extraordinary sequence posted on the former first lady’s Instagram account, the wild choreography was performed by the little girl and about ten friends invited for the occasion.

In a pink princess dress, Louis Sarkozy’s little half-sister let her excitement run high happyby Pharrell Williams. “So shall we dance?” wrote Carla Bruni in the comments. Dancing princesses“. A year later, the translator Raphael this time sharing immortalized images of a little girl contemplating an impressive Christmas tree at Cap Nègre during the Christmas holidays.

Apprentice fashion designer

In addition to their shared passion for singing, Carla Bruni also showed off her little girl’s fashion taste on her Instagram account in June 2022. The daughter of the former president of the Republic then posed in front of her mother’s lens, adorned with her mother’s elegance. Black sharp-cut blazer, leather heeled ankle boots… Julia Sarkozy then opted for the classics. “On Wednesdays, we steal our mother’s clothes… #giuliamonamour,” the singer enthused.

The Instagram page in which Carla Bruni also testified about her daughter’s love for animals. In the photo, dated April 2023, he appears hugging his cat. In a video posted on November 30, 2022, she also kisses Nana, the little Cavalier King-Charles. A love that probably gave birth to his passion for horse riding. In October 2023, Carla Bruni also celebrated her daughter’s 12th birthday, immortalizing her sunbathing, but always with her head covered.

Self-assessment

Since then, the world has discovered the face of Julia Sarkozy. But also the feeling of self-confidence. In June, when she was competing in the prestigious Longines Paris Eiffel Jumping show jumping competition at the Plaine de Jeux de Bagatelle in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, she laughed at her own performance. “We just made the track (understand “reconnaissance,” which consists of covering the path of the obstacle with your feet before the event, editor’s note140 or 145 Grands Prix, I don’t know anymore, so it’s really huge,” said a visibly stunned Julia Sarkozy as a preface to her camera.

Before comparing its size to the height of the obstacles, which measured between 1.40 meters and 1.45 meters, it seemed huge to him. “Basically, I’m 1.50 meters tall, and the obstacles are bigger than me,” the young rider pointed out mischievously. Adventures still follows several thousand of his subscribers. Among them is a certain Carla Bruni, who despite everything follows her protégé.