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Personal experience told her that politics rarely came without cost - and often meant loss.
She is the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (who was the sister of the slain Democrat president John Kennedy) and of Sargent Shriver, the first head of America’s Peace Corps and vice-presidential candidate in 1972.
“I’d learnt early on that political life was about constant travel and being surrounded by 50 people in the house and either you lose or you get assassinated,” she once told Oprah Winfrey.
But she now faced loss of identity, too. “One day, out of nowhere, my movie star husband announced he was running for governor of California. Just 60 days later, he was elected … Just like that my career was gone, and with it the person I’d been for 25 years,” she recalled in her book.
Shriver adjusted to her role as California's first lady, championing women’s rights, social welfare and other programs that dove-tailed with Shriver family interests, such as the Special Olympics.
She became his sounding board, despite their political polarity. In the 2008 presidential election she had backed Barack Obama: he supported his friend, John McCain.
Their partnership had faced sterner tests before they morphed into California’s first couple. After Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in 2003, the Los Angeles Times published accusations by six women over unwanted sexual advances made in studio offices and elsewhere in the preceding decades. Eventually, 16 women spoke out, with Schwarzenegger issuing ultimately a blanket apology, though never fully addressing the allegations.
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