Tongue-pierced 6ft tall Essex girl could be next First Lady
Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's wife, is anything but your run-of-the-mill, conservative, 60-something politician's wife. Oh no. Elizabeth Kucinich is a 29-year-old "hippie chick" from Upminster, England, who stands at six feet tall, with long red hair and a tongue ring. Elizabeth met Dennis two years ago when she visited his office in the House of Representatives with her boss as a volunteer worker for the American Monetary Institute. He proposed to her after just their second meeting, and they were married only three weeks after that, with actress Shirley MacLaine at their wedding. Sure they're 31 years apart, but Elizabeth says that she's "never noticed it at all", that her husband is a "very mature but young-at-heart gentleman and that they "compliment each other".
Elizabeth has studied religion and theology at Kent University and it was her work with the Voluntary Service Overseas that brought her to Tanzania and India, which is where she was inspired to pierce her tongue with what Fox News describes as "a bar with two delicate balls on either side". Elizabeth sites Princess Diana as one of her heroes and is trying to bring "compassion back into public life", which is something she says has been absent since Diana's death.
[via Fox News]
