Chelsea Clinton: Rare Marriage Quotes About Husband Marc

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, went from childhood crushes to happily married. The couple wed in 2010 and have since shared rare insight into their marriage and family life with their three kids.

The She Persisted author and the investor met in the ‘90s at a political retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Her parents, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and his parents, Marjorie Margolies and Edward Mezvinsky, were friends prior to their children dating. As teens, Chelsea and Marc both bonded over coming from families of politicians.

After a brief relationship with her ex-boyfriend Ian Klaus, Chelsea and Marc went public with their relationship in 2005. The duo both attended Stanford University for their undergraduate degrees and later attended Oxford University to obtain their master’s degrees. They announced their engagement in 2009 to their friends and family via email.

“We’re sorry for the mass email but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged!” the message said, per ABC News. “We didn’t get married this past summer, despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us. Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc.”

The following year, the former NBC News correspondent and the businessman got married in a gorgeous ceremony at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York. Chelsea’s father walked her down the aisle during the ceremony.

“We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are so happy to welcome Marc into our family,” Bill and Hillary shared in a statement at the time. “On behalf of the newlyweds, we want to give special thanks to the people of Rhinebeck for welcoming us and to everyone for their well wishes on this special day.”

Four years after tying the knot, Chelsea and Marc experienced parenthood for the first time. Their daughter, Charlotte, arrived in September 2014. Charlotte became a big sister when Chelsea gave birth to her second child, son Aidan, in June 2016. The Clinton-Mezvinsky crew became a family of five with the birth of the couple’s third child, son Jasper, in July 2019. Hillary and Bill are close to all three of their grandkids and got to spend the summer with them in 2020.

“It was really wonderful for our kids to have that time with their grandparents — especially for Charlotte and Aidan to be with my parents in the season from late spring really through the whole summer, where they were able to plant a garden together and tend a garden together and pick and harvest the food together and eat the food together and play so many games,” the global health advocate told People in October 2020. “I was really grateful for that time.”

Keep scrolling to see Chelsea’s rare quotes about her marriage to Marc.

On Loving Married Life

During a March 2014 interview with the Huffington Post, Chelsea gave a rare update on her marriage ahead of the arrival of her first child with Marc.

“My marriage is incredibly important to me,” she told Marlo Thomas at the time. “It’s the place from which I engage in the world every day and the place to which I return every day.”

On Marc’s Daddy Duties

In September 2015, Chelsea revealed that Marc is a “very hands-on” dad. She continued to say that the pair “work hard to be home so we can give Charlotte a bath and put her to bed,” one year after their daughter’s arrival. The media personality also shared that her hubby was not a fan of changing diapers.

“I tease him about [it] because it is the exception,” Chelsea admitted. “He’s so attentive, he’s so engaged with her, reading to her, helping her get dressed, getting her into her pajamas at night, helping give her a bath. Everything else.”

On How Marc’s Childhood Shaped the Way He Parents

Marc is one of 11 children whereas Chelsea is an only child. She described how his upbringing in a large family shaped the way he parents their three kids.

“Actually, for him, it was quite a different experience, having two kids and then having three kids, because there were so many kids in the house when he was growing up and he is very close to his mom,” the bestselling author told Romper in September 2022. “He will often say that he had seven mothers because he had six older sisters who were very involved in helping take him to places or showing up to cheer him on in his sporting events. And I think that for both of us, albeit for different reasons, having two and then having three, has been a new experience. It all is wondrous.”

On Their Interfaith Marriage

Chelsea was raised Methodist by her parents while Marc was raised Jewish. Their wedding featured traditions from both of their religions and the pair have continued to raise their interfaith family.

“My husband is Jewish, and it is really important to both of us that our children grow up in each of our traditions in a way that hopefully feels coherent to them,” the mom of three said during a press conference ahead of the premiere of her 2022 Apple TV series, Gutsy. “And so, our children go to both Hebrew school and to Sunday school. They go to both synagogue and church.”