Carla Bruni Tedeschi (born 23 December 1968 in Turin, Italy), is a model, songwriter and singer. She is the sister of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Heiress to an Italian tire manufacturing fortune, she has had no need to work, but by 1988 was among the 20 highest-paid fashion models, earning $7.5 million a year. She grew up in France from the age of five, and later attended boarding school in Switzerland. She eventually returned to Paris to study art and architecture, but left school at 19 to become a model full-time.