Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave Americans a look behind the podium in a telling Vanity Fair piece published on Tuesday.
Karine Jean-Pierre shared about her personal life following the end of her tenure. The ex-White House press secretary wants to spend time with her family.
Karine Jean-Pierre shared in a heartbreaking essay this week that she had a “second full-time job” while serving as White House press secretary: caring for her mother, who has cancer. She wrote in Vanity Fair that she visited her mom in New York every weekend for 18 months while maintaining a secret she kept from even her workmates.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre replaced her predecessor Jen Psaki in May 2022 and held her final official press briefing on Wednesday.
All was quiet as the press pool stood feet from the White House in Spring 2024 waiting for the president to call us in for his meeting with congressional leaders. Suddenly, I heard squeals behind me similar to that of sorority girls after completing rush.
Jean-Pierre arrived at the White House after a breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ready to work with Biden on the farewell speech he planned to deliver to the public later that afternoon.
She kinda marketed it as a celebration of her and her tenure and unfortunately that took precedence over huge breaking news,” one source told The Post.
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gives Americans a glimpse of her life behind the briefing room podium, including her mom's struggle with cancer.
A compelling chapter in American political history concluded as Karine Jean-Pierre completed her final press briefing at the White House on Jan. 15. According
Leavitt can claim a first of her own — at age 27, she is the youngest White House press secretary in history — though she hopes to become better known for her ability to speak for and defend the Trump administration.
Karine Jean-Pierre spoke to The Advocate about being press secretary under President Joe Biden, living and working proud and out, and what she plans to do now.
When Leavitt, 27, walks out into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Tuesday, she'll be the youngest press secretary to do so, since Ronald Ziegler, who held the title in former President Ronald Reagan's White House at age 29.