Gisele Fetterman’s had a hell of a year.
The former second lady of Pennsylvania steered her husband John Fetterman through a taxing U.S. Senate campaign and her family through his recovery from a stroke and subsequent treatment for depression. What’s putting out a few more fires?

Fetterman is aware she’s not the image people conjure when they think “political spouse.” She is a formerly undocumented immigrant, openly uses marijuana to treat her chronic back pain, and, since May, works as a volunteer firefighter just down the street from her Braddock, Pennsylvania, home. But her ability to calmly disarm people has been an asset to John Fetterman as he ascended from small-town mayor to lieutenant governor to U.S. senator.

Read Anna Peele’s #Encounter with @gfett at the link in bio.

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