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Carla Bruni Effect: French Ministers Follow Sarkozy to Fight Fat
Sarkozy is said to have lost seven kilos (15 pounds) in the two years since taking office, and the mix of a punishing diet, gruelling work-outs and a high pressure job was blamed for causing him to collapse while jogging this summer.
Coached by the sylph-like first lady Carla Bruni, the slimline president appears to have kicked off a health craze in the cabinet, where before-and-after shots show several ministers to have melted.
Most spectacular is the transformation of Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister and lifelong Sarkozy friend, who was reported this week to be on a draconian diet of soup, low-fat yoghurt and red berries.
But he is not alone in watching his waistline, according to Jean-Michel Cohen, a star nutritionist who says he counts several ministers and a host of other politicians among VIP clients at his diet clinic in the Paris suburbs.
"It's a well known syndrome. People copy their boss and in this case the boss has lost weight, he is watching his image," Cohen told AFP.
"Half a dozen ministers are on a diet. It's all done very discreetly.
"Our clients used to be 25- to 50-year-old women. Then there was the wave of artists and TV journalists," he said. "Now it's politicians both men and women, who are even sending their children."
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