Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Addresses 32-Yr Age Hole with Husband

Karoline Leavitt is opening up about her 32-year age hole with husband Nicholas Riccio. The couple tied the knot in January, simply days earlier than President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

Leavitt, the youngest press secretary in White Home historical past at 27, revealed marriage ceremony footage on Instagram on Monday, March 12, writing that she “lastly discovered a while to publish just a few of my favourite footage from one among my favourite days!”

In a current interview on The Megyn Kelly Present, Leavitt opened up about her “atypical” relationship.

“He’s my best supporter, he is my finest good friend and he is my rock,” she raved of Riccio, 59. “He is constructed a really profitable enterprise himself so now he is absolutely supportive of me constructing my success in my profession.”

The couple met when Leavitt was working for Congress in New Hampshire in 2022. She gained the Republican nomination, however in the end misplaced the seat to Democrat Chris Pappas. Nevertheless, the marketing campaign in the end led to developments in Leavitt’s private {and professional} lives. 

“A mutual good friend of ours hosted an occasion at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband,” she recalled of assembly Riccio. “I used to be talking. We met and we had been acquainted as pals. After which we fell in love.”

When pressed by Kelly, Leavitt admitted that she did have some hesitation about their age hole at first. “I imply it is a very atypical love story however he is unbelievable,” she raved. 

“He is the daddy of my youngster and he is the very best dad I might ever ask for,” Leavitt continued. “And he’s so supportive, particularly throughout a really chaotic interval of life… I say, ‘I walked into your life and it has been a circus ever since,’ however God bless him as a result of he is absolutely on board.”

Leavitt and Riccio acquired engaged over the Christmas vacation in 2023 and welcomed their son, Nicholas Robert Riccio, nicknamed “Niko,” on July 10, 2024.

“It’s true after they say there’s nothing corresponding to the love you’re feeling on your youngster,” Leavitt wrote in her Instagram publish asserting the beginning of her son. “My coronary heart has grown greater than I ever imagined potential. Infants are the final word blessing and I’m bursting with gratitude for our lovely, completely satisfied, wholesome boy.”

Simply days after giving beginning, she returned to work on the Trump marketing campaign, saying she was motivated to forgo maternity go away following the July 13 assassination try on Trump in Butler, Penn.

“I checked out my husband and stated, ‘Seems like I’m going again to work,’ ” she advised The Conservateur in an October 2024 interview.

“I felt compelled to be current on this historic second,” she added. “The president actually put his life on the road to win this election. The least I might do is get again to work rapidly.”

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Leavitt advised Kelly that her millionaire husband is nothing however supportive of all she does – although she’s beforehand defined that she doesn’t really feel the necessity to present him off on social media. 

“He is an introvert (exact opposite of me),” she advised followers. “I respect his privateness on right here—however he is my primary fan, the very best dad, and simply the very best man I’ve ever met.”