![]() ![]() Biden, 80, is nine years older than Jill, 71, which also was a factor. The first lady spoke to Vogue in 2016 about her first impressions of her husband and why it took so long for her to accept his wedding proposal. "She said, 'If you love that deeply, you can love that way again.'" "I once asked her, when she finally agreed to marry me, 'How can you marry me knowing how much I loved my first wife?'" Biden said. "Only twice in my life have I ever fallen in love, and both times I knew immediately," he said. President Biden hosts Kennedy Center Honorees At The White House (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)īiden was admittedly smitten from the first time he met the former Jill Jacobs in 1975. His first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, died in 1972 in a car accident that also killed their 1-year-old daughter, Naomi. "I looked at her and said, ‘Will you marry me?’ She goes, ‘OK.’ Swear to God."Īt the time, Biden was a single father of two sons. If you say no, I understand, and that’s it. ![]() I said, ‘You got my Irish up.' And I said, 'I’m asking you one more time.' I said, 'You don’t have to say when, but if. "I came back, got off the plane in Philadelphia, drove straight to her apartment, knocked on the door and (she) said, ‘Oh Joe, come on in.’ I said no. "I had to ask her five times, and the fifth time, I was in South Africa, trying to see Nelson Mandela," Biden says in a clip of the interview. The Drew Barrymore Show December 15, 2022 talks to about falling in love at first sight, proposing five times to & more this MONDAY (12/19).įind out how you can watch this special episode: /kSwBnvhh66 ![]()
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