Karine Jean-Pierre reveals mom’s cancer diagnosis and why she kept it secret

The former press spokesman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, gave the Americans a look behind the speaker in a Vanity Fair piece published on Tuesday.

Jean-Pierre, who decided to keep her personal life privately during work in the Biden-Harris government, revealed a private health battle that is considering her and her family considerably.

Jean-Pierre remembered that in December 2022 he had participated in Biodes in the first state dinner. It was “the first time that the administration has been certain since the beginning of the pandemic that dinner was safe.” That evening Jean-Pierre was accompanied by her mother, who told her that it was “the happiest day of my life”.

The state dinner was the last time that Jean-Pierre “recognized my mother as the woman with whom I grew up.” Unfortunately, things took a turn, and just a few months later, their mother diagnosed colon cancer in stage II. Jean-Pierre found that her mother was sick when he visited Poland with the then President Joe Biden.

“My mother has always been a private person. When she finally agreed to reality, she told me: ‘Tell anyone. Don’t tell the president that I have cancer,” wrote the former press spokeswoman.

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The then press spokeswoman for White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, speaks on October 30, 2023 during the daily briefing in the Brady briefing room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden was supposedly “one of only a few people in the White House” who knew what Jean-Pierre’s mother was going through. Jean-Pierre said Biden “has appeared for me” during the difficult time.

As she navigated her mother’s care next to her siblings, Jean-Pierre drove to New York. “Every weekend I could see my mother” just to return late in the evening to catch “a few hours of sleep” before I went to the White House.

The press spokesman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, speaks on April 9, 2024 during a press conference in the Brady Pressonying Room in the White House in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Although Jean-Pierre worked with her “second full-time job” in a very public role in the Biden-Harris government with her “second full-time job”, Jean-Pierre explained that it is just one of the reasons to be a “private person” Just one of the reasons why she didn’t do it, make your mother’s cancer cancer public. The former press spokeswoman said that she also worked under the “weight” of being “first”.

“I am the first black press spokesman. The first person of the color press secretary. The first openly queer press spokesman. The first Haitian American immigrant press secretary. The first press spokesman to all above. As first, this means that my responsibility was above that in the Job description, the load heavier.

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Jean-Pierre also claimed that she believed that her mother’s diagnosis “as an excuse” because “society does not allow women to be vulnerable at work. If they are a first, they do not get it. “

The press spokesman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, took over the role in May 2022 when Jen Psaki right according to MSNBC on the left. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

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During her time in the briefing room of the White House, Jean-Pierre was criticized for a number of embarrassing and controversial moments.

In one of her more notorious moments, Jean-Pierre accused the media and other, “cheap counterfeits”, the bidges “made” appearing particularly frail or mentally confused “. When the American people wondered whether the commander-in-chief was able to fulfill the tasks of his office, Jean-Pierre has the gas light by putting it on “misinformation” and “disinformation”.

After bidding had exchanged for Georgia’s electoral laws and she called “Jim Crow 2.0”, Jean-Pierre raised the eyebrows with her claim that “high voter participation and suppression of the voters can take place at the same time”.

Jean-Pierre was also commissioned to return rejections of the possibility that the president would forgive his son Hunter. After the president published the forgiveness of his son, Jean-Pierre explained the pivot point, although he had repeatedly sworn, and said that the “circumstances changed”. She also blame the elected, the elected President Donald Trump and said that the President tried to protect his son from republican “retribution”.

In May 2022, Jean-Pierre took over for her predecessor Jen Psaki, who acted as bidens press spokesman for almost a year and a half. When Psaki handed over the reins to Jean-Pierre, she called her successor a “remarkable person” before listening to her qualifications for the position.