Germany's new first lady lends glamor
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July 3, 2010, Saturday
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GERMANY'S new first lady Bettina Wulff has been turning heads with her towering height, striking looks, glamorous outfits -- and a large tattoo on her right shoulder.
The 36-year-old communications manager, who met her husband on a business trip, became an instant media darling in Germany even before Christian Wulff, 51, was sworn into office yesterday as Germany's youngest postwar president.
Bettina Wulff, a single mother before Wulff abandoned his wife of 18 years for her, has been compared in German media with Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama: young, dynamic and independent.
All three first ladies have been called the epitome of modern women in their respective countries. All have won praise for their fashion awareness and trendsetting styles, and symbolise a new generation.
"Will Bettina Wulff become Germany's Michelle Obama?" asked Bunte, a celebrity magazine, about Germany's first lady.
There were as many pictures of Bettina Wulff in a tight black dress -- discreetly covering her shoulder tattoo -- in German newspapers after his election on Wednesday than there were of Christian, Germany's 10th post-war president.
"Picking her was the best decision Wulff ever made," wrote Die Zeit newspaper. "Germany will have a First Lady whose picture soldiers will love pinning up in their lockers."
She was working in communications at tire maker Continental in 2006 when she met Wulff, then state premier of Lower Saxony. "I wasn't waiting for someone to come along and sweep me off my feet," she once said.
"I always assumed I was going to have to take care of myself and I've kept doing that all along."
Wulff, with his clean-cut good looks and friendly smile, was seen as a "dream son-in-law" before his shock divorce. He was never shy about putting his first wife -- a 51-year-old lawyer -- and their daughter on display as a tacit model of traditional family values.
For years the Wulffs appeared together as a picture postcard family.
The 36-year-old communications manager, who met her husband on a business trip, became an instant media darling in Germany even before Christian Wulff, 51, was sworn into office yesterday as Germany's youngest postwar president.
Bettina Wulff, a single mother before Wulff abandoned his wife of 18 years for her, has been compared in German media with Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama: young, dynamic and independent.
All three first ladies have been called the epitome of modern women in their respective countries. All have won praise for their fashion awareness and trendsetting styles, and symbolise a new generation.
"Will Bettina Wulff become Germany's Michelle Obama?" asked Bunte, a celebrity magazine, about Germany's first lady.
There were as many pictures of Bettina Wulff in a tight black dress -- discreetly covering her shoulder tattoo -- in German newspapers after his election on Wednesday than there were of Christian, Germany's 10th post-war president.
"Picking her was the best decision Wulff ever made," wrote Die Zeit newspaper. "Germany will have a First Lady whose picture soldiers will love pinning up in their lockers."
She was working in communications at tire maker Continental in 2006 when she met Wulff, then state premier of Lower Saxony. "I wasn't waiting for someone to come along and sweep me off my feet," she once said.
"I always assumed I was going to have to take care of myself and I've kept doing that all along."
Wulff, with his clean-cut good looks and friendly smile, was seen as a "dream son-in-law" before his shock divorce. He was never shy about putting his first wife -- a 51-year-old lawyer -- and their daughter on display as a tacit model of traditional family values.
For years the Wulffs appeared together as a picture postcard family.
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