Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born Mary Elizabeth Anania on July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an attorney and the wife of John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and a former candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Edwards’ new book, “Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities” (Broadway, $22.95), hits stores Friday and in it, she writes about her husband John Edwards’ affair with the then-42-year-old videographer, whom the presidential hopeful hired in 2006.
But Elizabeth Edwards, 59, never uses Hunter’s name. And when the author appears on “Oprah” today, the only provision is that Winfrey not say it either.
So the other woman has she-who-must-not-be-named status.
Isn’t naming your problem part of the solution? (See: Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.)
When your husband beds some braciola after you’ve finished your last round of chemo, it’s the worst kind of betrayal. Edwards cried, screamed and threw up upon hearing the news, according to her memoir.
If I were Edwards, it would be my life’s mission to make the name Rielle Hunter synonymous with home wrecker, like the way a triple six is shorthand for Satan.
OK, maybe reducing Hunter to not-even-worthy-of-mentioning-by-name devalues the blond mistress into being “that mistake” and not a real person. An admirable strategy, I suppose. But the you-know-who thing seems so provincially polite, a la Jane Austen, at odds with a modern-day marriage. To a politician, no less.
Perhaps this Steel Magnolia is taking the moral high road (though some say she veered off it by staying silent and supporting her husband’s campaign while he lied about his tootsie). But her decision to write this book is as confusing as her feelings toward John - when asked if she loves him, she tells Oprah: “That’s a complicated question.”
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