Jill Biden is Vogue's latest cover star, and she's opening up about getting adjusted to the transition from her Delaware home to her famous address in Washington, D.C.
The first lady turned 70 years old earlier this month, and seemingly has no intention of slowing down as a professor, first lady, wife or advocate. Biden discussed the "magical quality" of White House living in her cover story for Vogue's August 2021 issue.
"One room is just more beautiful than the next, and you’re sort of in awe," Biden said in the interview published Tuesday. "Everyone here works so hard to create this world because I think that they understand the kind of pressure that Joe and I are under."
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Biden said the pressure created a tough environment before they even moved into the White House. During the campaign trail, she said she was told that she would not be able to teach and be first lady at the same time.
"I like that kind of energy,” she said. “When I became second lady — and there was so much I wanted to do — I always said, ‘I will never waste this platform.’ ”
Biden said she wants to change the energy of her home at Pennsylvania Avenue. She described the decadence of the home she shares with the president and their pets as "beautiful" and "perfect" but wants others to feel like its "their house" too.
“I want the White House to feel comfortable. It’s like my beach house, where you feel like you can just come in, and your bathing suit is sandy, but it’s okay to sit down on the chair," Biden said. "I want people to feel that way, that they’re comfortable, that it’s their house. Not like, ‘Oh, I can’t touch this.’ ”
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