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As Kerry desperately denied he knew anything about Botox, there's some more stories about botox and his colorful wife.
"In a Tuesday interview with a Boston radio station, the Massachusetts senator was asked about Lowdown's Tuesday item. Kerry "absolutely" denied receiving Botox treatments, and added: "I've never even heard it. Where did this come from? ... I've never even heard of it. Never heard of it."
Too, Too Teresa
But then, in the final 10 paragraphs of this very long piece, Elle finally dishes up the hot stuff it's been withholding, all the self-inflicted zingers that savvy Teresa-watchers have come to expect. "Everybody has a prenup," she says, defending her prenuptial agreement with Kerry, while leaving the distinct impression that she thinks "everybody" is a gazillionaire. She's had Botox treatments and in fact needs another right now. A nose job may be in the offing. And so on.
It all began about a year ago, when a joint profile of the Kerrys appeared one Sunday on the front of The Washington Post's Style section. The piece, by Mark Leibovich, opened with an unforgettable scene in which the senator and his wife are having a spat in their Georgetown living room, right in front of the reporter. The spat is about whether Teresa Heinz needs to mend fences with Sen. Rick Santorum, who now occupies the seat of her late husband, John Heinz, and at some point so offended her (the reasons are not given) that she stopped speaking to him. The scene closes with this piquant moment of connubial strife:
"No, I don't want to get together with him, John," she snaps. "I don't have to do certain things."
"Well."
"OK? I don't have to be that politic."
As the rest of the piece made clear, this could actually be Heinz's motto. I don't have to be that politic. Several paragraphs later, Kerry is claiming he's no longer haunted by bad dreams about his Vietnam War experiences: "I don't think I've had a nightmare in a long time," he tells the reporter. Your standard-issue political spouse would nod empathetically and let that statement lie.
"But then," writes Leibovich, "Heinz begins to mimic Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare. 'Down! Down, down!' she yells, patting her hands down on her auburn hair. 'I haven't gotten slapped yet,' she says. 'But there were times when I thought I might get throttled.' "
When Kerry tries to avoid a question about whether he's been in therapy, Heinz reveals that he has. She also has a penchant for dropping little bombs on herself, noting at one point that her eldest son started "hating her" a few years earlier, when he had his own child. And the piece is packed with suggestions that Heinz has closer ties to her first husband, spiritually at least, than to her current one. For instance, Leibovich quotes her: " 'I love my husband'--she means John Heinz--'I am in love with my husband, and I have three kids.'
And more
But in a 20-minute, off-the-cuff diatribe, Heinz offered details about the surgery and urged all men to get checked out. At other fund-raisers, she waxed discursive on her favorite sunscreen (Clinique), the healing properties of green tea, and the charms of life in Europe. In a June 2003 profile in Elle, she said she used Botox and would consider plastic surgery, that "everybody has a prenup," that she would "maim" her husband if she caught him cheating on her. She also commented on changing her name: "Now, politically, it's going to be Teresa Heinz Kerry, but I don't give a shit, you know? There are other things to worry about."
So does Kerry know anything about Botox? and When?
