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The latest gossip about Melania Trump hints that the now former first lady, at the news of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential elections, he already had his bags ready, determined to escape the White House as soon as possible. The truth is that the new tenant could not be more different. Italian-American, teacher, high school graduate, loving grandmother, smiling wife – Jill Biden could be the first lady to hold a paid job beyond her official duties. Sixty-nine years, including over forty years with Joe Biden, Jill brings her decisive attitude to Washington, concrete and slightly bourgeois elegance the kind that used to work, made from turtlenecks, comfortable boots and pastel coats. The two women in common only have a modeling experience: for Melania it was the golden ticket to the United States. For Jill it was how to pay for your studies at the faculty of English literature, hoping to fulfill his true dream: to teach. A passion that Biden does not intend to give up even during his four years in the White House. And the press has already nicknamed her “Professor Flotus” or “doctor flotus“From the acronym for First Lady of the United States.
A legitimate name: Jill Biden, née Jacobs, boasts two degrees – earned while working and raising a family, notes the White House website – and a Ph.D. in Education, thus specializing in training and teaching. At first I had chosen to study marketing and fashionbut the prospect didn’t thrill her at all. He decided to try again with the material that always fascinated him the most, English literature, posing as a model to put aside some savings. Legend has it that one of these shots was noticed by Joe Biden, who was impressed by the blue eyes and smile. Was his brother Frank Biden, organize a blind date between Jill, then a 24-year-old student, and Joe, the man who would become the 46th president of the United States.
At the time, however, he was a young widower at the beginning of his political rise.. Three years ago, when he had just been elected senator from Delaware, a phone call had changed his life forever: His first wife, Neilia, was out shopping for Christmas with the children when a tractor hit her station hard. Wagon, killing her and her daughter Naomi, who was only one year old. The other two children, Beau and Hunter, were seriously injured: Biden swore from the hospital, and for several months he traveled between Washington and Delaware so as not to leave them alone. Meeting Jill in 1975 brought serenity and confidence back to Biden’s life after years of pain. “She is the true rock of this family.The newly elected president repeated often. But it was not love at first sight. “At the time, I was dating guys in jeans, T-shirts and clogs,” Jill Biden said. fashion telling about their first date. “Then he shows up at the door, in his coat and loafers. I thought: OMG this will never work, not even in a million years. ”And instead something broke between them: he, nine years older and two children, took her to the movies in Philadelphia. He returned home from an unhappy first marriage and called his mother: “I met the perfect gentleman.” Two years later, Joe Biden asked her to marry him. Not once, but five times. “I had to be absolutely sure – Jill recalled during the interview with Vogue – those children couldn’t lose another motherBeau and Hunter were on either side of the altar when Jill and Joe exchanged wedding rings, at a Catholic church in New York, and were with them on their honeymoon.
More than forty years togetherIn the middle was a daughter, Ashley, her husband’s political rise, his academic career, work in charities, from breast cancer research to supporting military families. When Biden became Barack Obama’s vice president in 2008, Jill Biden spoke a lot about her decision to work at Virginia Community College– She was the first second lady to do so in over two hundred years, and she promised that she would even if she became first lady. Now twelve years later will be the two wives of Joe Biden to make history: Kamala harris, the first vice president, and Jill biden, the only Flotus to date with a salary (earned outside the White House).
During the election campaign we saw her tug at her husband’s jacket – literally – when he got too close to journalists, so that they would respect the distance; We have seen her give speeches from empty classrooms due to the pandemic, we have always seen her attentive by her side, strictly with the mask coordinated with her clothes. Like the black flower embroidered dress she chose for victory night: a model of Oscar de la Renta, the same one who wore Jackie Kennedy, Hillary clinton me Nancy Regan. When You’re the President’s Wife, Your Clothes Talk Too: On the night of the first debate, as her husband duels on television with a climate-denying president, Jill wore a teal cocktail dress by Gabriela hearst, an environmentally conscious designer, already used on other occasions: a not too subtle political message. But sometimes the message was much more explicit: In September, she was photographed in a purple dress and a pair of black boots with the words “Vote!” in large letters on the calf. A limited edition of Stuart weitzman which, needless to say, immediately became a cult. Of course, she does not have the impeccable rigor of Melania, the perfect mannequin wrapped in magnolia dresses, Gucci blouses and sophisticated military suits. Jill won over the voters with his practical and casual style, with career women’s blazers (which is her), with suede boots instead of high heels (general relief) with the bold colors that she is not afraid to wear: fuchsia, acid yellow, lilac, fire red.
And as the world waited spasmodically for the voting to end, a small Sicilian town crossed its fingers more tightly than the others. Is about Cast, a fraction of Messina, where the last century started Gaetano Giacoppa, Jill Biden’s grandfather, went to try his luck abroad. And once he arrived, he first changed his last name to Jacobs, more English-speaking. I wanted to look more American: who knows what he would have said knowing that his niece would one day live in the White House.
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