The statement ends weeks of speculation in which the 43-year-old wife of Nicolas Sarkozy has kept the public guessing whether her long-awaited baby was on the way.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Pal Sarkozy, 82, said: 'I'm glad to be having a grandchild.'
According to the interview Sarko senior added that neither the president nor his wife 'want to know the sex the child, but I'm sure it's a girl who'll be as beautiful as Carla'.
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In a television interview yesterday Bruni-Sarkozy refused to deny she was expecting President Sarkozy's child, where the presenter 'congratulated' her on her rumoured pregnancy.
The former supermodel, who has fiercely guarded her privacy, avoided confirming anything and without saying what for, she smiled and replied: 'I congratulate you too,' before the interview ended.
Bruni, who was interviewed by TF1 presenter Jean-Pierre Pernaut on her charity work against child illiteracy before he swooped in on the much-debated pregnancy issue, was dressed in a simple black suit and blue shirt which did little to reveal any possible 'bump.'
She was widely expected to announce news of her pregnancy on the top lunch time news show and many Twitter fans watching took her response as tacit confirmation. The 43-year-old is rumoured to be three months pregnant, possibly with twins, due in October.
In 2008, soon after she married the 55-year-old President, Bruni revealed they would try for a baby. but claimed she would never resort to fertility treatment.
Carla was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival to promote her film Midnight in Paris last week but pulled out citing 'personal and professional reasons'
She was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival last week where her film Midnight in Paris opened the event, but cited 'personal and professional' for not attending.
She has a cameo role as a museum guide in the film directed by Woody Allen, appearing alongside Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard.
Earlier this month she avoided confirming the rumours again in an interview with leading French newspaper Le Parisien where she was directly asked if she was expecting a baby.
But rather than issue a straight denial, she teasingly said that she would ‘remain tight-lipped about that to protect something’.
She then launched into a convoluted explanation about why she would not discuss whether she was pregnant, referring continually to her husband's career.
Bruni is already a mother to Aurelien, born in 2001. His father was her then lover, the Paris philosopher Raphael Enthoven.
Nicolas Sarkozy has three sons, Pierre, 26, and Jean, 24, from his first marriage to Marie-Dominique Culioli, and Louis, 14, with his second wife, Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz
If the first couple are expecting a child, the pregnancy would be perfectly timed to make them look more down to earth in time for next year's Presidential election in France.
A recent poll showed that Sarkozy’s approval rating is at an all-time low of 23 per cent — making him easily the most unpopular president in the 52-year history of the Fifth Republic.
French headlines were today dominated by the arrest of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault charges instead.
He was Sarkozy's top potential rival in next year's presidential election before his arrest, although it appears Bruni was not asked about this issue during the interview
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