If Kamala Harris makes history this November, her husband, Douglas Emhoff, will too. Meet the man who could be America’s first second gentleman.
Emhoff insists his mind is elsewhere: “I’m just working night and day, 24/7, running through walls, crawling over glass to help them win.”For now he refers to himself as a “guy.” As in: “I would be the first guy to hold this role.” Also: “I’m just a guy. I’m not a politician.” Or: “I’m a lawyer; I’m a guy; I’m a dad.” And, by way of explaining why his musical tastes stopped evolving after Depeche Mode released, has mocked him for this, but love is about acceptance.
“When people say that RBG and Hillary Clinton and Senator Harris are models for little girls, that’s true,” Goldstein says. “I think their success does send a message to girls that this is becoming a different world, and there are possibilities that maybe didn’t exist for their mothers or grandmothers. But it also sends a message to little boys that this is a different world than the one that their fathers and grandfathers grew up in. And Mr. Emhoff is part of that.
Today, Emhoff is a partner at DLA Piper, one of the largest law firms in the world. Prior to that, he spent a decade at corporate firm Venable.In 1992, he married Kerstin, the cofounder and chief executive of production company Prettybird, with whom he has two kids, Cole and 21-year-old Ella. They divorced after 16 years of marriage.
“He was complimenting her, and at the same time he was admiring her, and I liked that,” Hudlin says. “I thought,After an endearing if awkward start—a nervous “just saying hi!” text, a rambling predate voicemail that Harris saved and replays for him on their anniversary—Emhoff impressed Harris by emailing her the morning after their first date to tell her, “I really like you.
In their six years of marriage, Emhoff has seen Harris through the high of winning a Senate seat and the low of dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. “She made that decision, and I would have supported whatever she decided,” Emhoff says. “But I’m not her political adviser. I’m her husband. And so my role was to be there for her, to love her, to have her back, to talk it through, to help her.
“It confuses us, because we expect the spouse—who’s usually female—to just be, like, ‘the Wife,’” David Mandel, the Emmy-winning showrunner ofThough it is extremely frustrating to be expected to feel ecstatic over progress that’s long overdue, “let’s not forget that we are just a giant country of misogynists. We’ve proven that in 2016,” Mandel says.
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