Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., got the Vogue seal of approval in the magazine’s November issue. The profile talks about how smart she is, how strong she is and how like Hillary Clinton she is.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is used to make the point:
“We all have a prejudice, men and women: Here is this very attractive blonde woman, and the prejudice is — well, that she’s not a heavyweight. She is a heavyweight. She is going to make a real impact over the years,” Hoyer tells Vogue’s Jonathan Van Meter.
But Vogue being Vogue, the piece also talks about how skinny she is, or rather, how skinny Gillibrand has become.
“As modern and young as Gillibrand is, this is one part of her job that remains fuddy-duddy; it seems unlikely that she will blaze a daring fashion path on Capitol Hill,” writes Van Meter. “Which is too bad because these days, she could pull it off, having lost a lot of weight since becoming senator.”
How much weight? Gillibrand confesses to losing 40 pounds and is back to being a size 4/6. No wonder she got such high marks.
