Bruni admits having problems with 145;conservative146; hubby

8220;My instinctive reflexes are Left wing8230; I am not joined at the hip with my husband8217;s politics. I get the impression that people who are completely one side or another only think with one part of their brain,8221; British newspaper The Daily Telegraph quoted Bruni as telling Liberation.

But despite their political differences, she added: 8220;If he ever stood for election again, I would still vote for him Sarkozy.8221;

The 40-year-old French First Lady, who once famously declared her aversion to monogamy, has also said that she took the help of an adviser to avoid shocking 8220;conservative people8221; who came from 8220;a world that8217;s completely alien to me8221;.

8220;They were deeply shocked by the arrival on the scene of a girl who is not French, not married, free to have been what she was, with a child.8221;

8220;But my husband doesn8217;t correspond to the idea I had of conservatives.

He is not conservative at all. Nor does correspond to a large chunk of those people who make up his party,8221; Bruni told the French newspaper.

She has also admitted organising dinners with artists to 8220;cultivate8221; her husband, a television-addict whose musical tastes stop at Elvis Presley and his French equivalent Johnny Hallyday.

8220;Perhaps I can help him to enable him to better communicate on the things that he loves, to give more room to culture,8221; she said.