Story sheds little light on Cindy McCain
IN VOGUE
Vogue magazine didn't get her to cough up much that's new.
Although husband John's popularity is often ascribed to his loquaciousness around journalists -- what reporter doesn't love a presidential candidate who gabs? -- Cindy McCain, 53, is far more reserved. The June issue of Vogue magazine features a story and photo layout on the would-be first lady, but the glossy monthly didn't get her to cough up much that's new.
Still, there are a few tidbits:
McCain owns not one but two condos in a Coronado building on San Diego Bay. She wears size 0 Lucky jeans. She attempted to cure her "emptying nest" problem by purchasing two Yorkshire terriers spotted in a Manhattan pet shop. ("The smaller the dog, the louder it barks and the less housebroken it is," says her not-entirely-thrilled husband, the presumptive GOP nominee.)
She is a "hands-on chair" and controlling stockholder of her family's giant beer-distribution business. With her devotion to several children's charities, she will not cast about for a first lady cause.
Were she to become first lady, laments Vogue, "she also knows . . . she would have to give up the Escada suits she says fit her so well in favor of those made by an American designer." (Escada, with dresses costing around $2,000, is a German firm.)
-- Robin Abcarian
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