41-year-old former supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, says she began to see psychiatrist after her father died when she was 28. She adds that she refuses to lie down on the couch as it feels "artificial" when she saw her first psychiatrist.
"I had a life that was totally about action, completely outside of psychoanalysis until the age of 28," Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy told interviewers. But she said the shock of her father's death had prompted her to engage in therapy "body and soul". Initially the exercise was unexciting, she said, but when she switched to her current psychiatrist "the first session was incandescent". She added that lying down on a couch felt like a "masquerade".
"For the last two years I've been face to face with my psychiatrist. This more civilised situation of sitting face to face helps me speak more freely." Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy married the twice-divorced French president in Feb 2008 after a brief romance.
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