Adriana Karembeu (screenshot from interview with Belgian daily La Dernière Heure/Les Sports in Feb 2011)After almost 13 years of marriage the model Adriana Karembeu and her husband, the former French international football player Christian, are to split, according to an interview Adriana gave in Thursday's edition of the weekly magazine Paris Match.
The news doesn't exactly come as a surprise says France Soir, "Especially not to readers of celebrity magazines," as rumours had been circulating for some time that the Slovakian-born model was not happy with their lifestyle, her husband's hectic schedule and "the fact that they didn't appear to have a life together."
"I wanted to makes things clear," she told Paris Match.
"We have always been a very high-profile couple and in recent weeks I've been upset to see photographs of me with other men appearing in the press and speculation that I had a lover," she continued.
"The truth is I've never cheated on my husband but we haven't been together for a couple of months now."
While Adriana maintains in the interview that she had informed her husband about her decision to "go public" his version of how he found out is quite different.
Christian, a member of France's 1998 World Cup winning side has recently published a book (together with journalists Anne Pitoiset et Claudine Wéry) "Kanak" in which he recounts his childhood in New Caledonia and the story of his family.
He has been giving a series of interviews to promote the book but, "Had not alluded to the separation," Adriana told Paris Match, "Because he didn't know what to say. When I 'phoned him to tell him that I had granted you an interview, he seemed relieved."
But that wasn't quite the story Christian told on RTL radio on Wednesday.
"I think she's quite simply going to announce our separation," he said when asked for his reaction to details that had been leaked of the interview that was to appear in Paris Match the following day.
"I'm not in the habit of talking about my private life in public," he continued.
"But I didn't know about this interview when it happened, I was told about it afterwards."
Whatever the case their separation is official and marks the end of a relationship which began, as the French daily Aujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien says, "In the most romantic of manners aboard a Paris-Milan flight in 1996".
They were married in 1998.
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Of course they are both very much in the public eye, Adriana being much more than a footballer's wife - I would say she's gained public recognition in France for her charity work and she's quite popular (I loved in particular the television program "En terre Inconnue" where she travelled to the upper plateaux of Ethiopia). Nothing dramatic about their separation, it happens to a lot of people, and of course, it will get media coverage. But I hope not too much, let's respect their private life!
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It's unfortunate that they're not together anymore. I really liked them together.
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