Former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has come out in support of the French government's bill legalizing gay marriage and adoptions, moves strongly opposed by her ex-president husband, according to On Top Magazine.

“I am rather in favor of gay marriage and adoption,” she told Vogue in a cover story to hit newsstands on December 3. “I have a lot of friends – women and men – who are in this situation and I see nothing unstable or perverse in families with homosexual parents.”

France's new left-of-center President Francois Hollande, who beat Sarkozy in a tightly-contested May vote, approved the marriage equality and adoption bill on November 7. It is expected to go before parliament in January.

Sarkozy's party as well as Roman Catholic groups have been campaigning heavily against the bill.