Carla Bruni enjoys jaunts on the Paris metro in disguise In an interview with late-night comedian David Letterman, the First Lady said she was able to go for "little jaunts out" to the horror of her Secret Service bodyguards. Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy is no stranger to going undercover. When Mr Sarkozy warned her in 2007 that dating him was "no gift" as she would be hounded by paparazzi, she is said to have replied: "When it comes to the celebrity press, you are an amateur. My affair with Mick [Jagger] stayed secret for eight years. We passed through all the capitals of the world and no photographer ever caught us. "What's your recipe?" he asked, according to advertising guru Jacques Séguéla in his book Unauthorised Autobiography. "It's very simple, I disguised (the Rolling Stones lead singer, then married to Jerry Hall) according to my passing whims - with a false beard, goatee, moustache, the craziest hairstyles," she responded. "And how would you dress me up?" he went on. With a basque beret and a baguette under the arm? She replied: "I would have found something better." Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's confession comes as she seeks to help her husband lose his "president of the rich" tag and reconnect with the "people," claiming to watch popular soap operas and adopting a roomy trousers and zero make-up look. In the interview with Nouvel Obs, the one-time left-leaning model and singer said "I think the Right likes me," even if she resembled "Lady Gaga" when compared to past conservative First Lady Madame Pompidou. She said the turning point for sceptical French conservatives was her and husband Nicolas' state visit to Britain in 2008 and denied ever having said: "Every time I appear, he loses three points in the polls." The multi-millionaire also fended off criticism that she had spoken like a modern-day Marie-Antoinette when she recently claimed "me and my husband are modest folk, we eat pasta too." She said she meant "modest, in the sense of the opposite to arrogance, of showing off." French presidential candidates' wives are playing an increasing role in the campaign, with Socialist front-runner François Hollande's girlfriend Valérie Trierweiler, said to help him with speeches and often present at rallies. But she told Nouvel Obs: "I don't want to enter into competition with Carla Bruni. The election mustn't shift onto that ground.