And to this day, she counts teaching as the most important thing in her life.
The oldest of the siblings perBiography, Biden originally intended to study fashion merchandising.
But she would end up taking a completely different career path.
So, what is there to know about Jill Biden’s rise to the public spotlight?
How has she grown to be in the position she’s in?
Who was her first husband?
Here’s the stunning transformation of Jill Biden.
While Biden admits that she “was kind of rebellious,” she never caused any real harm.
She said that her brand of rebellion was quite “innocent.”
The oldest of five girls, Biden established herself as their protector at a young age.
Her sister Bonny Jacobs toldThe Philadelphia Inquirerthat Biden was not just a leader but a role model.
Biden got her first job when she was just 15 years old, as noted byThe New York Times.
Biden explained her desire to work in an interview withVogue.
“I loved it,” she told the outlet.
The divorce was far from amicable.
It was Joe’s brother who introduced the future couple.
When we came home … he shook my hand good night," she shared.
As the educator explained in a piece she penned forTime, the future president’s first proposal was low-key.
“He simply said, ‘I want us to get married,'” she wrote.
Biden finally accepted her now-husband’s fifth proposal, which he said would be his last.
“He was prepared to walk away forever.”
Not wanting to lose the people she already regarded as family, she said yes.
While Biden may not have been their biological mother, she was always accepted in the Biden family.
“That’s how the kids wanted to define it,” she said.
PerBiography, Ashley is her first and only biological child.
According to Jill Biden, Ashley grew up quite close with her older siblings, Hunter and Beau.
“From the minute she was born her brothers looked after her,” she toldDelaware Today.
“And, she always looked up to them.
Wherever they went, she wanted to go, and they took her.”
The boys had a big job to do when welcoming Ashley into the family.
Jill Biden’s life is teaching
“Teaching is not what I do.
It’s who I am,” Jill Bidentweetedin mid-August 2020.
When asked if she’d keep teaching, she toldCBS News, “I hope so.
I would love to.”
As noted byCNN, he first announced his candidacy for president in 1987 and again in 2007.
It was Jill Biden who pushed her husband to run for the second time.
Biden also defended a dissertation under her maiden name so as not to attract attention.
Not being known as the second lady wasn’t just about keeping a low profile.
She also didn’t want to be defined by her relationship to the vice president.
Biden’s desire not to be defined by her husband began while he was still a senator.
Jill Biden told the outlet, “It was totally shattering.
My life changed in an instant.
“The cracks may be imperceptible but they’re there.”
Instead, Biden described it toPeopleas “the story of how we built and rebuilt our family.”
The book also deals with her ongoing grief following the tragic death of her son Beau Biden.
“I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones.
It’s not the right order of things.
How can I be there for my children when I feel so lost?”
She similarly defended her husband the month before, keeping a man away from him at another rally.
Joe praised his wife’s actions after the events.
‘“I’m probably the only candidate running for president whose wife is my Secret Service.
Gone was the young woman who worried that being a senator’s wife would overwhelm her.
She even held the generations-old family Bible with which Joe was sworn in, perCNN.
“When I travel around the country now, I feel as though people can breathe again.
I think that’s part of the reason Joe was elected.”
She continued, saying, “He’s just acalmerpresident.
He lowers the temperature.”
