Karoline Leavitt is opening up concerning the “challenging conversation” she had together with her mother and father when she started courting her now-husband Nicholas Riccio, who’s 32 years her senior.
Showing on Wednesday’s episode of the “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine” podcast, the White Home press secretary mentioned Riccio, an actual property developer, now enjoys an easygoing relationship together with her mother and father, Bob and Erin ― however admitted that attending to that time took a while.
“It’s definitely a challenging conversation to have at first,” she defined. “But then once they got to know him and saw who he is as a man and his character and how much he adores me, I think it became quite easy for them. And now we’re all friends.”
She went on to notice: “My husband has such respect for my parents and the way they raised me, and we have a lot of fun together when they come to visit.”
Leavitt, 28, married Riccio, 60, simply days earlier than President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. The couple are mother and father of a 1-year-old son, Niko.
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Like many {couples} with important age gaps, Leavitt and Riccio have confronted a good quantity of public scrutiny. Earlier this month, Leavitt was accused of enhancing a photograph of Riccio taken when the couple introduced Niko to the White Home for a Halloween social gathering.
“That airbrushing of your hubs face to make him appear younger was the trick,” one particular person wrote on Instagram.
Added one other: “Face tuning your senior citizen husband is wild lol.”
Showing on Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM radio present in February, Leavitt acknowledged that she and Riccio had “a very atypical love story,” however went on to explain her husband as “my greatest supporter.”
“He’s my best friend and he’s my rock,” she mentioned on the time. “He’s built a very successful business himself, so now he’s fully supportive of me building my success in my career.”
She shared related sentiments in her “Pod Force One” chat, additionally describing Riccio as a hands-on dad who was content material to remain “behind the scenes.”
“He’s very introverted, unlike me,” she mentioned. “He’s not on social media. He’s very private, which I respect. He’s a self-made man.”
Hearken to Karoline Leavitt’s “Pod Force One” interview right here. Her feedback on her husband start across the 36:25 mark.
