Singer Carla Bruni announced on Instagram this Saturday that she has completed five years of hormonotherapy following a 2019 breast cancer diagnosis. She thanks science and caregivers for their role in her recovery, while urging women to get annual screenings. This message follows her public testimonies in 2023 and 2024 to raise awareness about early detection.
Carla Bruni, wife of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, shared an emotional message on Instagram on December 20, 2025. Aged 56, she reveals having completed five years of hormonotherapy prescribed after a late 2019 diagnosis of hormone-dependent breast cancer. “Surgery, radiotherapy, hormonotherapy—that’s the path we must take to cure this type of cancer,” she writes in the caption of a photo where a box of Tamoxifene covers her face.
Despite the treatment’s “quite aggressive side effects,” Bruni expresses gratitude to science: “It effectively protects against relapse, which is frequent in the years following diagnosis.” She also thanks the medical team for their “competence” and “humanity” during this “trial.”
The former model had first revealed her illness in October 2023, after keeping silent for several years. In October 2024, in a video for the Octobre Rose campaign, she explained her “luck” in detecting a “very small cancer” thanks to an annual mammogram in October. “One in eight women will have breast cancer, that’s 12% of the female population,” she emphasized, urging: “Get your mammograms. I’m counting on you.”
This testimony reinforces her advocacy for early screening, noting that her cancer was small due to regular exams. Bruni urges women again: “Don’t hesitate to get screened every year if possible.”
