The French president’s millionaire pal Jacques Seguela broke the news to France’s leading celebrity magazine ‘Voici’, reported Daily Mail online. Advertising tycoon Seguela introduced the 54-year-old Sarkozy to the 41-year-old former supermodel at a Paris dinner party two years ago. “Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni very much want to have a child. Carla has already said so several times, otherwise I would not be allowed to say this. Everyone knows about it now. They are a young couple, and like all young couples, they want to start a family,” said Seguela.

Sarkozy, who already has three children from two previous marriages, believes that having a baby will boost his chances of winning the next presidential election in 2012.
“It seems the president feels that due to his age, if he doesn’t have a child now, it will be too late. He also believes that such a happy event could be a vote winner in 2012,” an insider at the magazine said.

The President has two sons, Pierre, 24, and Jean, 22, from his first marriage to Marie-Dominique Culioli, who he divorced in 1996. He has a 12-year-old son Louis from his second marriage to Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, whom he divorced in 2007. Bruni, who has had previous relationships with rock legends Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, has a nine-year-old son Aurelian with philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven.

Bruni and Sarkozy began a whirlwind romance after Seguela brought them together on a ‘blind date’ at a dinner party in November 2007. They married just three months later at a private ceremony in the Elysee Palace on February 2, 2008.