Posted on 10/25/2004 3:23:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Why have we not heard anything about Sen. John Kerry’s former wife, the mother of his daughters? What can you tell us about her? When divorced, remarried, etc.? - P.S., Lebanon
You probably haven’t heard anything about her because she’s an exceedingly private person.
Kerry married the former Julia Thorne, a Philadelphia heiress, in 1970 in Bay Shore, N.Y. They honeymooned in Jamaica.
As you note, they had two daughters, Alexandra in 1973 and Vanessa in 1976.
The couple separated in 1982 at a time when Thorne was battling a deep depression and contemplating suicide.
"After 14 years as a political wife," she wrote in a book about depression titled "You Are Not Alone," "I associated politics only with anger, fear and loneliness. …
"I could no longer pretend I was of use to my husband or my children. I knew that once I was gone my family and friends would be relieved of the burden of my incompetency."
The couple’s divorce was final in 1988 but was not annulled by the Roman Catholic Church until 1997 – two years after Kerry married Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz, a former United Nations translator and widow of Pennsylvania Sen. H. John Heinz III, a Republican.
Thorne now lives in Bozeman, Mont., with her new husband, architect Richard Charlesworth, and recently completed a course of treatment for cancer.
She’s spurned attempts to get her to talk about her ex-husband.
"Julia does not want to answer questions from the media," a family friend told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle earlier this year. "She hopes her desire for privacy will be respected and honored thoroughly. … She wants to be left alone."
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Who wouldn't married to LURCH! Of course Tahreeza just boozes it up to blur her vision of him! LOL
Does his annulment make his kids bastards like him?
Sen. Kerry's party years?
I'm sick and tired of idiotic statements like that.
If you are ignorant, keep your mouth shut.
Why? GWB is not a Democrat.
That was the expression Thorne used when rich boy got the annullment. THK insisted on the annullment as part of her Catholic upbringing and to keep John boy's prenup. Thorne was exceptionally disturbed that Kerry had deligitimized their wedding and basically made bastards out of his children.
Why?
That was a legitimate question.
Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy did the same thing - annulled the marriage after children already arrived.
It doesn't square.
And I, being the child of an annulled marriage, am extremely offended by it.
Robert Kennedy Jr., wife said the same thing we have got an annullment to marry is new wife.
Don't take it out on the poster.
That's nice. Too bad we've grown out of the feudal era, and annullment no longer has any status effect on the children. She, as well as some others here, need to rejoin reality.
Looking at his 'lovely' daughters, I'd say a stump-broken horse.
The first wife is pretty, and looks very sensitive. Probably needed more attention than she was getting...
The interesting thing to me is that she blames her lonliness and anger and depression on the political life. I suspect living with JFK, unbearable narcissist that he is, sucked the life and the air out of her world.
What always disturbs me is that he left her when she was so ill and left the children. And now as the world has turned, she has just finished a course of chemo while her daughters, abandoned by their father, are at his side helping him in his ambition to hear "hail to the Chief".
With his rich wife, his political life, his ambtion, there are his daughters. And the first wife is at home with cancer. I dont know about anyone else, but I would be at my motheers side.
She's certainly had more than her share of misery and betrayal.
I think the media should leave her be....completely.
Right you are, cajungirl. The mother's side would be the place to be. Maybe they also are there. I would hope so. Or maybe they inherited his "self-serving" gene.
Perhaps he was actually putting Ms. Thorne first when he left her is the midst of depression. Seeing John Kerry leave the scene for good would lift anyone's spirits.
Sorry I think she has a duty to warn the rest of us what a selfish egotistical POS he is.
You are so right! Leaving her certainly did "lift her spiritis",,she seems happy now.
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