Four years as France’s first lady looked to have taken their toll on Carla Bruni

Four years as France’s first lady looked to have taken their toll on Carla Bruni yesterday as she voted in presidential elections which are on course to bring them to an end.

Just before exit polls predicted that her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, would suffer a humiliating defeat, Carla ticked her ballot paper close to her home in Paris’s 16th arrondissement.

Many suggested that too much botox and other surgical procedures had transformed her fresh good-looks into something a lot stranger.

Natural? Many suggested that too much botox and other surgical procedures had transformed Carla's fresh good-looks into something a lot stranger. She was pictured yesterday voting in the French election

‘She looks like the Bride of Wildenstein,’ said one onlooker, referring to former millionaire art dealer’s wife Jocelyn Wildenstein who severely altered her face through cosmetic procedures intended to make her look younger.