There’s a new French weight-loss fad — flex your taint.
Because according to Nicolas Sarkozy’s personal trainer, Julie Imperiali, the French president has shed 4kg and shrunk two trouser sizes since she got him working the muscles of his pelvic floor 10 months ago. What’s more, if he is anything like her other clients (who include France’s first lady, Carla Bruni), the innovative exercise regime—based on controlling and strengthening the perineal muscles—will have improved the presidential sex life somewhat, too. “Problems of premature ejaculation are often due to the perineum,” she says.