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Thursday, February 12, 2004
Teresa Heinz Kerry: Rich, charming and outspoken, a perfect potential first lady
By Charlotte Raab, Agence France-Presse
Backed by a 500 million dollar inheritance, Teresa Heinz Kerry brings spontaneity and outspoken life to the sometimes leaden presidential campaign of her level-headed husband John Kerry.
No problem admitting to using botox, no problem to championing women’s and environmental causes that would certainly annoy the current occupant of the White House.
The heir to the Heinz ketchup and soup fortune—born in Mozambique and brought up in South Africa—has crossed the US political frontier to throw herself into her husband’s quest for the Democratic nomination to carry the party banner against President George W. Bush in November.
She once told Time magazine the idea of becoming first lady was “worse than going to a Carmelite convent.”
“Over my dead body,” she would say when people brought up the possible presidential hopes of Kerry or her late former husband, Republican senator John Heinz, who died in 1991 in a plane crash.
Now she is stepping up public campaign appearances, with and without the Massachusetts senator, and is on the platform for each of Kerry’s victory speeches and joins the celebratory hugs as each state has been claimed.
Heinz Kerry is 65 but looks much younger. She admitted to Elle magazine last year that she used Botox, the injected wrinkle eradicator. Her husband recently denied knowing even what Botox was when asked how he has managed to smooth his heavily lined brow.
According to her official biography, Heinz Kerry was born Portuguese, Teresa Simoes-Ferreira, and is fluent in five languages. She briefly worked at the United Nations after studying in Geneva to become an interpreter.
After John Heinz’s death, she headed the Heinz family’s charitable foundations—the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. She has channeled much of the foundation’s resources to the defense of the environment and women’s rights, including abortion—topics central to the presidential campaign.
She does not mince words when speaking about the current Republican president.
“I am very angry at the president and his economic policies,” she said, “it’s not just, it’s not fair, it’s not American. The American people are not unfair.”
But Heinz Kerry was a registered Republican last year until she changed parties so she could vote for her husband in the Democratic primary.
Teresa Heinz switched parties because of what the rightwing did to Max Cleland |
