Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s TV actor spouse, Cheryl Hines, and his socialite daughters, Kick and Kyra Kennedy, have lengthy loved their proximity to glamorous, highly effective individuals in Hollywood and the advantages of being a part of America’s elite Kennedy household.
Now, the ladies appear to be basking of their proximity to energy in Washington, D.C., even when it means going together with Donald Trump’s MAGA political ideology, which as soon as might need been an anathema to them. The three girls proudly stood within the Oval Workplace Thursday with Donald Trump. They had been celebrating the controversial affirmation of Kennedy, their “anti-vaccine” campaigner husband and father, to guide Trump’s Division of Well being and Human Providers.
Kennedy’s affirmation was unanimously opposed by Senate Democrats, outstanding members of the Kennedy household and lots of prime public well being consultants, because of his lengthy historical past of trafficking in “innumerable unproven and dangerous conspiracy theories” about vaccines, AIDS, COVID-19 and different well being points, because the Atlantic mentioned. In August, Kennedy’s sister, Kerry Kennedy mentioned: “I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump.”
It stays to be seen if Kerry Kennedy’s disgust will prolong to her sister-in-law and nieces. On Instagram Story later Thursday, Hines declared, “I’m so proud of you, Bobby. #MAHA,” whereas Kick Kennedy used a lofty Ralph Waldo Emerson quote in an effort to ennoble her father, writing: “If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”
It didn’t matter to those girls that their husband and father additionally is thought to have potential monetary conflicts of curiosity, has spoken a few worm consuming a part of his mind and bizarrely boasted about dumping a useless bear cub in Central Park, because the Atlantic additionally reported. Furthermore, Kennedy’s personal “sex diary,” printed in 2013, revealed that he was a serial adulterer throughout his second marriage to Kyra Kennedy’s mom, Mary Richardson, who died by suicide in 2012. He additionally was accused of sexually assaulting Kyra Kennedy’s 23-year-old babysitter in 1998, as Self-importance Truthful reported. (In his affirmation listening to, Kennedy denied the allegation and claimed it had been “debunked.”)
Extra just lately, Hines swiftly rejected divorce rumors, prompted by her husband being caught up in a sexting scandal with star political reporter Olivia Nuzzi. The night time Trump was elected president, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star lastly shed her persona as a sensibly liberal-minded Hollywood star who as soon as tried to distance herself from her husband’s extra excessive positions. Hines radiated happiness, as she performed the function of “MAGA wife” whereas attending Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and associated festivities, together with the MAHA Ball. Kick Kennedy additionally was photographed on the MAHA Ball, wanting excited to be at one of many largest D.C. events of the 12 months.
Regardless of Kennedy’s questionable credentials to guide America’s prime well being company, his “confirmation is a victory for Trump,” The Atlantic mentioned. It’s “a clear message that Senate Republicans are willing to embrace pseudoscience in their unwavering deference to (Trump). Americans’ health is in Kennedy’s hands.”
Two weeks earlier, John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy additionally warned America that her cousin is an attention-seeking, ethically challenged “predator” who has sought to “enrich himself” together with his anti-vaccine campaigning on the expense of different individuals’s well being.
However these warnings apparently didn’t matter to Hines or to Kennedy’s daughters, longtime stars of New York trend and society scenes. “Kickie. I’m so proud of your of your papa. #MAHA,” Hines wrote on Kick Kennedy’s Instagram put up. Each Hines and Kick — or Kathleen, named for her legendary great-aunt Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy — sat behind Kennedy as Democrats on the Senate Finance committee grilled him on his ethics and loyalty to Trump.
Hines’ willingness to help her husband’s affirmation shouldn’t be that shocking regardless of her earlier efforts to distance herself from his extra excessive positions. Amongst different issues, Hines fortunately accompanied her husband on his notorious 2019 journey to Samoa, the place he met with anti-vaccine activists who had been seen as taking part in a task in a measles outbreak that killed 83 individuals, largely unvaccinated youngsters.
In the meantime, Kennedy’s ascendance into prime MAGA circles have prompted a flurry of gossip and leisure tales about his socialite daughters.
The Enterprise Insider discovered an early Trump household connection to 29-year-old Kyra Kennedy, who has “dabbled in modeling” and whose Instagram reveals her continuously attending trend reveals and New York Style Week occasions. After Kyra Kennedy’s formal society debut at a 2013 debutante ball in Paris, she turned recognized round New York Metropolis as a member of the “Snap Pack,” a time period coined by the New York Occasions. This group included Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, and was made up of an “uber-rich” group of younger individuals who lived and partied in Manhattan, documenting their fabulous lives on social media, because the New York Occasions mentioned.
Kick Kennedy has a equally obscure skilled resume, regardless of being a graduate of Stanford College. “Who is Kick Kennedy?” tales initially started circulating in August, after Web page Six and different gossip websites reported that the 36-year-old was “spending time” with Ben Affleck, and may even be courting him, amid his divorce from Jennifer Lopez.
Kick Kennedy additionally was featured in information studies about her father’s affinity for desecrating animal corpses. Web sleuths unearthed a 2012 City and Nation profile of her, through which she took half in certainly one of her father’s acts of “extreme environmentalism.”
In 1994, when Kick was 6 and he or she was vacationing together with her household on the Kennedy household’s Cape Cod compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, her father discovered {that a} useless whale had washed up on a close-by seashore, City and Nation reported. As a part of his “environmentalism,” Kennedy apparently appreciated to check animal skulls and skeletons. So he rushed out to the seashore with a chainsaw and his younger daughter in tow. He minimize the whale’s head off, secured it to the roof of his minivan with bungee cords and made the five-hour drive again to the household’s residence in New York.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalled to City and Nation. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
However neither the City and Nation story, or newer tales about Kick Kennedy, have supplied a really clear image of what she really does for a dwelling. Tales talked about that she, too, did some dabbling, in her case in appearing; she as soon as had a small function in Hines’ “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Her IMDB web page mentioned she’s an “actor, writer, philanthropist and activist,” whereas Effectively Beings, an environmental and animal welfare nonprofit began by Kick Kennedy’s pal, Hearst household heiress Amanda Hearst, lists her in its “Founders Circle.”
In a Self-importance Truthful profile of Kennedy, author Joe Hagan described hanging out together with his daughter on the Kennedy household’s Cape Cod compound in the summertime of 2023. At one level Kick Kennedy mentioned she labored at a New York artwork gallery, regardless that she additionally mentioned she lived in Los Angeles. She mentioned she initially came over her household that summer time for per week, however ended up staying for a number of weeks. “You know how summer on the Cape is,” Hagan famous.
