[3] Her father, Jean-Noël Massonneau, had lost a leg on a landmine during the Second World War, when he was 13,[4] and died at the age of 53, when his daughter was 21.

[5] In 2005, Trierweiler began to host political talk shows, especially interviews, on the Direct 8 television channel.

In 2012, Trierweiler announced that she would keep her contract as a journalist with the Paris Match magazine during the presidency of her boyfriend, Francois Hollande.

[6] On 12 June 2012, Trierweiler caused widespread controversy by tweeting in support of Olivier Falorni, who was standing for election as a dissident socialist candidate at La Rochelle, against Ségolène Royal, Hollande's former partner.

[4] In January 2014, a story in the celebrity magazine Closer featured seven pages of alleged revelations and photos about an affair between Hollande and the French actress Julie Gayet.