Huma Abedin Opens Up About ‘Saying Yes’ to Dating Amid Bradley Cooper Romance: ‘I Did Not Allow Myself to Be Open for Many Years’
usmagazine.comReady to start over. Huma Abedin got candid about her dating history — including why she wasn’t interested in the past — amid her romance with Bradley Cooper.“I put dating in the category of one of the things I did not allow myself to be open to for many years, particularly when I was living in New York in the early 2000s, when Hillary [Clinton] was in the Senate and it was a very glamorous time in New York,” the political staffer, 47, told WSJ.
Magazine in an interview published on Monday, October 3.Abedin recalled not feeling comfortable going on dates in the past. “I was invited to so many dinner parties and there’d be all these women I found to be much smarter, much more beautiful, much more everything.
Here I was, this serious little political aide in a suit,” she continued. “I never expected to be the woman that any of these men left with and I was OK with that because to allow for that kind of relationship would mean that I would have less time to work.
Less time to focus.”Since then, the Michigan native noted that she has developed a different outlook on her romantic life, saying, “Yes, I’m open to all kinds of saying yes!”Abedin’s insight comes after Us Weekly confirmed in July that she is dating Cooper, 47.
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