Clinton’s ‘body woman’ is engaged

Huma Abedin, thumbnail from Vogue via Nirali, Aug. 21, 2007 Huma Abedin, Feb. 5, 2008 | ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Now that I’ve blogged about some more-serious Clinton-related issues — her attempts to raise her profile and her comments regarding the American journalists imprisoned in North Korea — here is a lighter-fare item: Clinton’s ‘body woman,’ Huma Abedin is engaged to ...

By , copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009.
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Now that I've blogged about some more-serious Clinton-related issues -- her attempts to raise her profile and her comments regarding the American journalists imprisoned in North Korea -- here is a lighter-fare item:

Huma Abedin, thumbnail from Vogue via Nirali, Aug. 21, 2007

Huma Abedin, thumbnail from Vogue via Nirali, Aug. 21, 2007
Huma Abedin, Feb. 5, 2008 | ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Huma Abedin, Feb. 5, 2008 | ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Now that I’ve blogged about some more-serious Clinton-related issues — her attempts to raise her profile and her comments regarding the American journalists imprisoned in North Korea — here is a lighter-fare item:

Clinton’s ‘body woman,’ Huma Abedin is engaged to U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). Abedin has been Clinton’s omnipresident personal assistant, always at her side since her 2000 Senate race. (Meanwhile, no word yet on whether there’ll be wedding bells anytime soon for Chelsea.)

Photos, left to right: thumbnail from Vogue, via Nirali, ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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