Huma Abedin
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Huma Mahmood Abedin (born July 28, 1976) is an American political staffer who served as vice chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign for President of the United States in 2016.
Abedin was deputy chief of staff to Clinton, who was the US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
During Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination in 2008, she served as both the traveling chief of staff and former advisor for Clinton.
Her high-profile political career has brought her personal life into question over the years, particularly her marriage to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Early life
Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on July 28, 1975, to two professors. Abedin is of Indian and Pakistani descent. She has a sister and a brother.
When Abedin was two years old, her parents were offered jobs at the University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abedin and her family travelled to Jeddah, where she was born and lived until returning to the United States for college. Abedin travelled often during her childhood and adolescence, as well as attending a British girls' academy. When she was 17, her father died as a result of progressive renal disease.
As a teenager, she asspired to be a reporter like her role model Christiane Amanpour and wanted to work in the White House press office. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a minor in political science at George Washington University.
Abedin was always identified as an American, but she felt right at home in Saudi Arabia. Although her parents and siblings immigrated as Americans, her family maintained their own "cultural and religious beliefs."
Personal life
Abedin is a practicing Muslim. Abedin also speaks fluent Arabic in addition to English and Urdu.
In 2007, Abedin first met then-U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, and they were engaged in 2009. They were married on July 10, 2010, with former US President Bill Clinton officiating the wedding reception. Abedin gave birth to a boy in December 2011. After new sexting charges were made against him on August 29, 2016, Abedin revealed her estrangement from Weiner. Abedin declared in early 2017 that she intended to file for divorce with sole physical custody of their son. After Weiner pleaded guilty, she filed for divorce on May 19, 2017. In January 2018, Abedin and Weiner filed a divorce lawsuit alleging that they had decided to enter a private agreement in order to save their son from further embarrassment. Their divorce is in its final stages as of November 2021, although they do still see each other and raise their son.
Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as a mentor and mother figure to Abedin. "I have one daughter," Clinton said at Abedin's wedding to Weiner in 2010. However, if I had a second child, it would [be] Huma." "You'll spend more time with my daughter than I have in the past 15 years," Abedin's mother said to Clinton, "You've spent more time with your daughter than I have in the last 15 years."I'm jealous of you!"
Abedin said in a May 2022 interview that she struggles with anxiety and has been in therapy as a result of her husband's sexting affair. She also said she has started dating again and is excited about the process. Abedin had a friendship with actor Bradley Cooper in July 2022.
Career
While a student at George Washington University, Abedin began working as an intern in the White House in 1996 and was later named to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton as a student. She served as an assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minorities Affairs from 1996 to 2008. She served as Clinton's personal aide for many years. During Clinton's lucrative 2000 Senate bid in New York, she officially took over as Clinton's aide and personal advisor, as well as a traveling chief of staff and "body lady" during Clinton's unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Abedin, a trusted advisor to Clinton, particularly on the Middle East, has become known for his Middle East expertise, according to a number of Clinton associates, and has become well-known for it.
Abedin was named deputy chief of staff to Clinton in the state Department in 2009. After returning from maternity leave in June 2012, she resigned as Clinton's deputy chief of staff and took on a consulting position; this status allowed Abedin to work for private clients as well as acting as an advisor to the Secretary of State. She did consulting work for Teneo, a strategic consulting firm that advised Coca-Cola and MF Global, and served as a paid consultant to the Clinton Foundation while still focusing on Hillary Clinton as the body woman to Clinton under this arrangement. She was unable to disclose her consulting work while working as a State Department advisor. According to the New York Times, an Abedin's associate said that the arrangement allowed her to work from her home in New York City rather than at the State Department's Washington headquarters, allowing her to spend more time with her child and husband.
Abedin, who left her position at the State Department in 2013, was the program manager of the transition team that assisted Clinton in returning to private life and continued her work with the Clinton Foundation. Abedin founded Zain Endeavors LLC, a private consulting company eleven days before leaving the State Department.
Abedin began serving as vice president of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign as vice chairperson, and later as Clinton's personal assistant. She screened and interviewed candidates for key campaign positions, including campaign manager Robby Mook, and was the primary channel for Clinton communications before the campaign officially began. Abedin wrote an email to Clinton supporters, describing herself as "literally (writing) racism into our law books" after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country.
In November 2021, Abedin published a book titled Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds. The book explores her childhood in Saudi Arabia, her Muslim faith, her time as an aide to Clinton, and her friendship with ex-husband former Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner. She has said that writing the book was a therapeutic process, aiding her in coping with a turbulent time as a result of Weiner's many scandals. Abedin's book also explores the various identities that have influenced her, including being born in Michigan and then raised in Saudi Arabia by a Pakistani father and an Indian mother.
Abedin wrote that an unidentified senator in the mid-2000s had "kissed me, blowing his tongue into my mouth, coerced me to sit down on the couch"; she claimed she had "buried" the case until allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. In a CBS News Morning interview to promote the novel, she said she did not believe that the senator was sexually assaulting her in that moment.