Celebrity influencer Gisele Fetterman visited her husband, Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), just "once a week" while he was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center for what his office described as "depression," according to a puff piece published Wednesday in People magazine.
By comparison, the "exclusive" report notes that Fetterman had "daily visits" with members of his staff during his six-week stay. The revelation confirms a Washington Free Beacon report from February about Gisele taking a road trip to Canada after her husband, who was also recovering from a near-fatal stroke, checked himself into Walter Reed.
Once again, Gisele's reported actions stand in "sharp contrast" to the doting wife narrative projected by the Fetterman campaign after the candidate's stroke in May 2022. Social media commenters have also pointed out Gisele's habit of cropping her massive husband out of photos to ensure her fancy shoes are visible in frame.
Fetterman's wife wrote an article last month for Elle, the French fashion magazine, in which she claims running for public office is something she "would never do." That, however, is precisely the sort of rhetoric deployed by ambitious politicians—Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton, for example—before announcing campaigns.
Fetterman's wife's husband returned to work on Wednesday but struggled to perform his duties as chairman of a Senate agriculture subcommittee.