Instead, she seems to have become stuck in a style rut more befitting of a woman much older. Fashion formula: Newt Gingrich's wife Callista may be just 45, but as her husband emerges as a frontrunner in the Republican presidential candidate race, she seems to have become stuck in a somewhat older style rut. Her efforts to look ever more polished for appearances alongside her husband, 68, have found her reliant on a fashion formula that consists of boxy power suits, a triple-stand pearl necklace and sensible courts.
Her make-up is more dated still. Garish pinky-purple blush adds little warmth to her naturally pale skin, nor indeed do her lipsticks, always in a blue-ish shade of red, rather than more flattering orangey hues. But most distinctive is of course her gleaming helmet of white-blonde hair - the subject of much media fascination, it is believed to take up to 90 minutes to coiff into shape, and even has its own Facebook page albeit with only 13 'likes'.
Mrs Gingrich is clearly trying hard to look appropriate, attractive and elegant for these formal occasions. But if her husband does end up running against Barack Obama, she will prove little competition for Michelle Obama in the wives' fashion-off. While Mrs Obama has had many thousands of newspaper and magazine column inches dedicated to her every outfit, and even blogs tracking the labels she wears, Mrs Gingrich sticks to nondescript tailored separates.
One would be unlikely to find her causing a style scandal with an Alexander McQueen gown, for instance, or putting an unknown name like Jason Wu onto the fashion map. Mrs G's outfits inspire little debate. And perhaps this is her intention - but the effort she is clearly making with her appearance what on earth would one do to their hair for 90 minutes each day?
Newsweek's fashion critic, Robin Givhan likens Mrs Gingrich to the women of the Fifties and Sixties and considers these style choices an effort to exude wealth and control, rather than the relatability her peers might aspire to. Transformation: In left and right , Mrs Gingrich's look was softer - her suits had a less severe shape and her hair, with its slight waves, looked at least like it might move in a gust of wind.
Ann Taylor chic: When Callista Bisek first stepped onto the political scene, her look was less contrived. Her suits were less boxy, and her hair even showed a trace of dark roots.
It might, however, remind viewers that Callista is Mr Gingrich's third wife. His divorces from the first two — he has acknowledged marital infidelity in both marriages — are a subject of campaign conversation and perhaps some difficulty with religiously conservative voters.
Mr Gingrich's campaign posted it, headline and all, on his website, Newt. It's commonplace for campaigns to reprint such articles on their sites, said Gingrich spokesman R. Her parents learned about it only when they returned from a camping trip and found dozens of messages from reporters on their answering machine.
It was a shock, you know, obviously. It is not lost on Bernita Bisek that Gingrich left his two previous wives. You only have one child. Nine months later, on June 17, , Newton Leroy was born. Once, when Gingrich was fifteen, he stayed out past curfew. Newt was bug-eyed.
Then I dropped him. There was no need to shout. Family life was unstable. They moved often, and by the time Gingrich was sixteen he had lived in Pennsylvania, Kansas, France, and Germany. She taught him to drive. They were married in , after his freshman year at Emory, when Gingrich was nineteen and Battley was twenty-six.
The couple had two daughters, and after Gingrich got his Ph. You could hear the happy tune before you saw the happy man. But Gingrich had broader ambitions. One year later, he met Marianne Ginther at a political fund-raiser in Ohio, and within weeks, she told the journalist John Richardson, he asked her to marry him. Before the campaign, Jacqueline had been treated for uterine cancer. That September, she was taken to the hospital to have a tumor removed.
When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery. Gingrich married Ginther six months after his divorce became final. The process worked, but it was not a gentle one, and it made him many enemies. His stepfather boycotted their wedding. According to Ginther, he asked Callista to marry him before he told Ginther he wanted a divorce—while he was championing the Personal Responsibility Act.
His sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, told me that she has seen a difference in Gingrich, which she attributes in part to his marriage.
Many conservative voters, particularly evangelicals, do not want to see just evolution or mellowing, though; they want to see repentance for what they view as profound transgressions. I attended an event he had here with evangelicals, and there were some pretty tough questions.
The most interesting thing to me was not the answers but how he handled them. The old Newt that I knew would not have handled it very well, but this Newt did. What does that tell you? Men are pigs. In fact, there has been an aggressive response from religious men, too. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. The would-be first lady has had her current hairdo for less than two years. Prior to that, it was fluffy and flipped.
The platinum-blonde bob of would-be first lady Callista Gingrich has attained iconic status over the course of the Republican primary campaign.
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