Paula Broadwell
EARLY DAYS: Paula Broadwell, then Paula Kranz in her yearbook (inset), was homecoming queen in Bismarck, ND. (
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She’ll be remembered, all right.
The woman who allegedly had an affair with the nation’s top spy was voted “most likely to be remembered” in her senior year at Century HS in Bismarck, ND, sources said.
Paula Broadwell was described by classmates and current neighbors as a model student and mother.
And all expressed shock that she was suspected of sleeping with one of the most powerful men in Washington, igniting a scandal that has rocked the Obama administration.
Broadwell was the valedictorian of her graduating class, was elected to the student council and was a varsity athlete, according to her yearbook.
“She was devoted and studied and worked hard to get good grades. She didn’t really go out and party like high-school kids do,” her homecoming king, Mike McCormick, 40, told The Post.
“Athletics, academics, instruments — pretty much whatever she did, she went after to the fullest of her ability.
“She was very disciplined in how she lived her life. It was kind of a shocker to me,” he said of the controversy.
Broadwell’s biography of Petraeus, “All In,” is currently ranked No. 102 in sales on Amazon.com — before the scandal broke, it was ranked a mere 76,792.
The brunette mom of two lives a quiet life with her radiologist husband, Scott, in a two-story brick home with a yard surrounded by a white picket fence in a Charlotte, NC,
Both were busy with work and kids, said a neighbor, who added that the couple seemed to have a happy and healthy relationship.
“They’re a strong, loving couple,” said Ed Williams, 70, adding that they were always shuttling their two children around.
“She’s not Monica Lewinsky . . . in that she is, in her own right, accomplished and intelligent,” Williams said.
One person who knows Broadwell said he was “not surprised” to learn that she is suspected of being the other woman in the Petraeus scandal.
“She was certainly smitten with him, that’s for sure,” the source said.
Broadwell first met Petraeus in the spring of 2006, while she was a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, according to the preface of her book.
Additional reporting by Josh Margolin and