Rep. Anthony Weiner’s stunning wife had a front-row seat to the mother of all sex scandals — she served in the Clinton White House during Monicagate.
And now, 34-year-old Huma Abedin has to deal with her hubby’s own public shame, as he tries to explain away his connection to a lewd Twitter picture.
Weiner said yesterday his beautiful spouse — a longtime aide to now-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about.
“She’s seen an awful lot,” Weiner told MSNBC.
“But I won’t mind telling you that even for someone that went through the Clinton years, this has been a befuddling experience.”
As Weiner battles the building scandal each day, Abedin has been going to work as one of Clinton’s most trusted aides.
She’s known as Clinton’s “body woman,” Washington-ese for the secretary’s right-hand woman, following America’s top diplomat at every step of every trip.
A State Department source said Abedin — who tied the knot with Weiner in July — has shown incredible grace under fire, and not displayed any signs of embarrassment or anger over her husband’s public roasting.
“She has the benefit of seeing [the Clinton administration],” the State insider said. “She knows how absurd things can get.”
And there was never any thought of reassigning Abedin, even temporarily, from her high-profile gig.
“She has been doing her job like nothing [has happened],” the State insider said. “It [Weiner’s public struggle] has nothing to do with her job. This is her personal life.”
This is the first serious bump in the road for Abedin, and her meteoric rise in Washington.
She was named one of Time magazine’s “40 under 40” rising stars of American politics last fall.
Weiner’s wife counts Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), designer Oscar de la Renta and Jordan’s Queen Noor as her admirers.
Weiner once joked that his wife, who got her start as an intern for then-First Lady Clinton in 1996, is almost too good to be true.
The daughter of an Indian scholar dad and a Pakistani academic mom, Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., and raised in Saudi Arabia before coming back to America for college.
She was profiled in Vogue magazine in 2007.
“I think there’s some dispute as to whether Huma’s actually human or not,” Weiner yukked during their courtship.
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