Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is facing embarrassment¹ over an internet film featuring explicit² comments she made about sex and love as a young model.

法国第一夫人卡拉·布吕尼-萨科奇早年当模特时的一段大胆谈性和爱情的露骨视频日前惊现网络，令其身陷尴尬。

Carla Bruni was holding the book Hot International Love and Sex Guides in the interview.

The 27-minute film, which has been posted on the video-sharing website YouTube, contains excerpts³（节选） from interviews of the young Miss Bruni that juxtapose（并置，并列） her risqué（近乎淫秽的，伤风败俗的） past with her demure⁴（严肃的，端庄的） present as the wife of the French president.

In one section, the Italian-born Miss Bruni produces from her handbag a book called Hot International Love and Sex Guides, which translates key phrases on all things erotic（色情的，性欲的） into seven languages.

“We need these kinds of books because we’re travelling all around the world, we’re meeting new people and we want to know what to tell them in case we get into bed with them,” she tells interviewers on the Channel 4 show Eurotrash.

The then Miss Bruni, who was 28 when the show was broadcast in 1996, proceeds to offer four translations of “You get me very hot”, ending in the Italian “Mi eccite tanto”.

She then moves on to more explicit（清楚的，直率的） phrases sparking an “oh no!” from one of the interviewers.

Thomas Cazals, the producer who compiled the portrait called In the Tube with Carla Bruni, said he did it “starting with the naive⁵（天真的，幼稚的） idea of better getting to know this character”. The Elysée apparently⁶ took swift action against the film as by Sunday evening it had been removed from Mr Cazals’ blog.

Although the film also carries tributes（贡品，礼物） from couturiers who admire Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy’s intelligence, beauty and wit, it will be unwelcome. She has been trying to play down her colorful past since marrying Nicolas Sarkozy two years ago.

While continuing her singing career, she has been forging（锻造，伪造） an image as a first lady dedicated⁷ to her husband and charity.