It was late Sunday night when the NY Post dropped their Monday cover: Anthony Weiner had been caught/sold-out for a third time. He had been sexting and sending inappropriate photos to at least one woman (who sold/gave her story to the Post). One of Weiner’s bulge photos was especially awful, considering his son was sleeping beside him and visible in the photo. Not even 24 hours later, Huma Abedin had announced that she was separating from Weiner, and most believe that she will divorce him sooner rather than later. Now Page Six reports that Huma had already made up her mind to leave Weiner before the latest sexting scandal.
Huma Abedin is “relieved” her nightmare marriage to Anthony Weiner is over, a source close to the Clinton camp tells us.
“Their marriage was already over, but she was waiting until after the election to do anything about it. But the New York Post’s story meant she had to take immediate action and rip the Band-Aid off.”
Abedin announced Monday that she is separating from Weiner after the latest in a series of erotic selfies was made public by The Post. She has since kept a low profile, and missed a string of her boss Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers in the Hamptons to spend time with her son, mother and sister.
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth media analysis about whether Huma Abedin is a public figure and whether it’s okay to talk about her marriage. Eh, I kind of think it’s fine and she is a public figure. She’s given interviews about her marriage and her life, she participated in a documentary about Weiner’s mayoral campaign, etc. We’re allowed to have an opinion. And in my opinion, she was probably on her way out of this marriage for more than a year.
Meanwhile, the NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services opened up an investigation into Weiner… by sending a letter to Weiner’s mom! Damn, that’s so harsh.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Interesting…very Good Wife.
I am so very happy that she chose to end their marriage. This is the only way to take control back of her life and empower herself. And what I mean by that is, she continued to trust a douche. There’s no winning w that. Ever. Whether they had a private understanding/ agreement/ etc doesn’t matter because at the end of the day the douche continued to humiliate his family to the public. Upwards, onwards Huma!
It’s a known fact that Hillary told her to stay in the marriage during the election, but now that he’s completely reached a new low, he’s dead weight that I’m sure Huma is anxious to get rid of. It would look terrible for her to stay.
“known fact,” huh? where do you get your “facts”?
Absolutely, Piper. It’s in part of Hillary’s deleted, ‘personal’ emails that are being slowly released after an FOIA request. However, many women that support Hillary Clinton haven’t bothered to read the emails.
Hey Piper & Anon, neither of you have presented any facts, links, etc.
You can see the stress on her face…hope this will be a huge weight off.
Yes, she looks tired…and done. But there’s nothing like losing 180 pounds to perk you right up again!
Agreed. She looks sad and tired. And thinner than usual, too.
Weiner is such a foooool!
how embarassing and stressful for her, wow…
kinda feel like this reinforces my suspicion about the whole “once a cheater, always a cheater” thing being true. i’ve experienced it and seen it so much. like no matter how contrite and apologetic and desperate not to lose you they are, give ’em a couple years and see it happen again… who, me? jaded? not at all… 😉
Sorry that happened to you. I understand being jaded!! I truly believe that when things aren’t good in a relationship there are times when a partner could be weak and a situation could present where they just feel like they need something they are not getting and they act on it. It isn’t right… But they just screw up. I think that could be a one time thing in a situation like that and someone could genuinely feel regret and not do it again.
A married man actively just out there talking to all these women like this guy was… He just doesn’t care. And yeh, he was totally going to keep doing it. But this guy has a screw loose anyway. He creeps me out.
At the very least, Weiner is or was a public figure. And it would be hard to talk about what he’s doing without talking about his effect on her.
Who sends sexts to another woman while their son is beside them in bed? This man is a grade A a**hole. Good for her to finally leave this sorry excuse of a human being.
I couldn’t believe that. So gross. And, just from his point of view, how could he think ANYONE would be attracted to a photo with his kid sleeping next to him?
I’m not married and I don’t have kids, but wouldn’t that gross even a wife/mom out? Married moms, what’s your say? If it were your husband sending you that photo?
Uhm no. Even if it was me that my fiancee was sending those pictures to. I cannot. I accidentally saw the picture in another site and it made my skin crawl.
I thought so too . When I saw that my stomach turned. The creep factor went to a million. My feeling on this is, that he has a problem, maybe sex addiction. Either way, it an on going problem and it would be a deal breaker for me if my man was sending dick pics to women, and then to have our son so close in the last one would be unforgivable .
@KB, I think we can safely say at this point that his behavior is NOT about how the recipients of the photos react, but is all about his own gratification when sending them. I’m thinking he probably gets turned on by the shock value, and the more illicit and outrageous the photo, the better.
I agree and I hope if he get visitation she has it supervised because he’s already show he can’t be trusted with their son alone.
Your comment made me think of this article about why we should stop saying Huma “finally” left her husband. It brought forward some perspectives I hadn’t considered. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/demetria-lucas-doyley-/stop-saying-huma-abedin-f_b_11783798.html
I liked that article (and agree with the author).
Well Weiner was a public figure and given his role, makes his family public by extension. If we were discussing something that solely had to do with Huma and their child, then it would be more off limits. However, this scandal has to do with him as well. Good for Huma.
Huma counts as a public figure in her own right in my book. See for instance the two glowing Vogue magazine profiles on her over the years that she has fully participated with
Uh … This guy is just so gross. I cannot stand to look at him. I don’t know how she stayed with him this long. He’s not just some weak guy that screwed up and cheated… He is a straight up perv.
She was always too good for him. On a separate issue, I am always skeptical about sex addictions but if ever there was a case for them, its Weiner. To lose everything twice and be so publicly humiliated and then still go ahead and repeat the same mistakes without bothering to hide his identity? Surely that points to some impulsivity issues, an inability to link acts with consequences. Jeez, atleast crop your face off the d*ck shot, you know. And use burner phones. Somethings not right with his head.
Those are my thoughts exactly. All of this defies logic. The only thing I can think of outside of addiction, is maybe he was forcing an end to the marriage.
So true!
He’s got something wrong with him – emotionally, mentally.
Still – this ‘marriage’ was a contract.
Not one of love IMHO.
Exactly Naya, here is no rhyme or reason for his poor impulse control
Exactly. Super self destructive.
When it comes to flashers, that is true addiction. The way he does it, using technology, is the only reason he isn’t standing on a street in a mac to flash unsuspecting passersby.
I’m not sure i believe other forms of ‘sex addiction’
i totally agree. i roll my eyes at the typical celeb excuses. if you are a rich famous dude and you have sex with a lot of beautiful women its not necessarily a sex addiction.
but with Wiener, i see that too. i am in no way excusing him, he shuld have gotten help the first time but as you said: after being caught three times there must be more than just being unfaithful. also the pic with his kid in it.
he needs help.
When seemingly good women make absurd choices and marry losers…
I highly doubt she anticipated he had an obsession as an exhibitionist when she dated/married him. I think that’s an unfair statement and slightly judgmental.
he wasnt a loser to the public. without all this crap that he poured all over himself he would be a pretty successful politican. Huma would have had it hard on her own as a politician so the marriage also made sense from that pov, she clearly is very ambitious.
Well, she’s the right-hand woman of Hillary Clinton, you know.
He probably seemed like an okay catch at the time, being an outspoken congressman and possible future NYC mayor at the time of their courtship.
2 words- Carlos. Danger.
Wiener (heh) is a compulsive asshole- She will be fine; Huma is an incredibly intelligent and driven.
Creep! The photo with his kid in the frame really shocked me! Huma should be the primary custodial parent (legalese for full custody).
Will she file in New York? Last I checked, NY do NOT have no fault divorce, so things could get messy fast.
Here’s the thing- part of why Huma has stayed is because Weiner has been able to be a stay-at-home dad. By most accounts he’s been a good and caring hands-on father to their kid. Of course the photo with the son in it shows that Weiner has some serious lack of self-Control that is problematic for full-time child care. But up till now, he’s been the full-time parent. Think about it- Huma must be gone ALL the time. I don’t think this is about vindictively taking away custody- I think she needed Weiner to be caring for the kid so she could go to work. Now she probably isn’t comfortable with that any more. But I doubt she’s rushing to yank the kid away from his hands-on dad just so she can leave him with nannies while she travels the world with Hilary. A man in her position would just leave his wife home to care for the kids while he persued his ambitious career. It’s much harder for women who are moms in these powerful and demanding jobs. If the kid’s not in danger, and he’s a decent father and caregiver, is she really going to go for punitive sole custody? Just to leave the kid with a nanny? It’s a complicated family situation and I’m sure it factored into ” why she stayed”.
Didn’t the Post also report that everyone including the Clintons tried to talk her out of marrying him in the first place?
I always hate to witness a divorce, but this whole relationship had me scratching my head from day one.
Yup. Both of them tried to discourage her from marrying him. That’s what makes me think this wasn’t necessarily a political arrangement.
I have such a soft spot for her, probably because we are the same age and I would love to have had her job when she started. I actually kind of still want some aspects of it now.
I think it’s the fact that the Clintons tried to dissuade her from marrying him that makes me wonder why she chose to marry him. Like, when even Bill and Hillary, who are for these kinds of arrangements, are telling you that someone will make a crappy husband…
It’s possible she really did love him, but then I can’t figure out what there was to fall in love with. He’s not JFK Jr. looks-wise and personality-wise he’s not JFK. (Whenever I’ve seen him speak, he seems so shrill…)
What a head-scratcher. Other marriages, even when the husband screws up, don’t baffle me to this degree. Even Jen Garner’s marriage to Ben Affleck makes sense to me, but not this one.
Huma, you don’t have to explain a thing……
Heck, I’ll contribute to the GoFundMe page for the divorce party! (nope, there isn’t one yet as far as I know)…Congratulations Huma. Realize this is a horrible time for you but you made the right decision.
This is not the juicy part of the story for me- it’s that he was carrying on an over year long sexting relationship with a huge Trump supporter! Weiner’s a politician and his wife is Hilary’s right hand woman and they are extremely close. He is a liberal and was sexting with a woman who is openly in the NRA, supports Trump and used public forums to bash Hilary. Cheating is bad but cheating with the enemy?! I think he might be a little resentful……
But he’s got no one to blame but himself for everything. It’s absolutely not her fault for him screwing up (no pun intended) and being a house husband when he wants to be mayor, governor, etc.
He’s a politican, he doesn’t care….do you think every man in Washington who’s ever cheated or hired a prostitute asked them to pull out their voter ID card before getting started? I highly doubt it.
I think it is 100% his fault and absolutely no one else to blame. His cheating seems worse to me that he was carrying on with a woman who made it a priority to trash the person who his wife works for and cares about. I’d feel the same way if he worked full time & had never done this before. If my husband cheated with someone who hated me, it would sting a little more.
The day that this came out I heard him talk about this ‘friend’ he had for over a year that he was trying to protect. I figured he was trying to keep that relationship intact. So to find out who the woman was did surprise me. It shouldn’t though- this guy is a mess!
I feel for her, hope this story blows over quickly and she gets some privacy back. Glad she is ending the marriage, he cannot be trusted.
Given how quickly her separation was snapped up by the Trump campaign and some journalists in attempt to blame her (or her employer), I could see why she wanted to wait until after the election to leave him.
He has problems and should be in therapy. It’s not a clandestine affair. It is exhibitionist behavior on twitter, a social media platform, that destroyed his career, and even when trying to make a comeback, is still doing it, and destroys his political career again and probably marriage. And yet he still can’t give it up. He is obsessed with his penis on social media talking to women who strangers. He is going to be sold out every time, but can’t stop himself. This is not just a guy who cheats with women in real life he meets.
The woman in question he met on twitter said he is broken. I believe that. He’s in his 50s, someone who was very smart, and keeps destroying it. He needs to go away to in-patient therapy and then out-patient therapy the rest of his life.
I find him sad, a pervert on social media showing and talking about his penis to women he will never meet.
Yes. He definitely needs help. But I cannot find one shred of sympathy inside me for this pervert… Only for his wife and child. I think this guy has a huge ego and thought he could just keep acting stupid.
Someone said something in another post about him that really struck a nerve me with I guess. They said that before smart phones and social media Carlos Danger would have been the guy flashing women on the subway. I totally believe it. He is really that in love with himself.
I highly recommend the documentary “Weiner,” which focuses on his campaign for mayor and his self-destruction through the second sexting incident. It was clear then that the marriage would soon be over. I’m so glad for her that she has been able to come to this decision.
I also saw the doc via Amazon and it’s incredibly… Pick a negative term of your choice. I mean, the doc itself is genius, it’s just insanely painful to watch. It also shows a side of Huma that surprised me in a major way. The way she allows him to treat her and speak to her is stunning. The access they both gave the filmmakers is almost unprecedented. Definitely worth the $10 to rent.
I swear to God if that had been my husband with my helpless baby ….ooh. I hope she gets primary custody.I also think Wiener looks coked/methed to the hills what with the sweaty greasy look.
He is such a loser. Like world-record-setting-loser-dom. Will be happy to see less of this creep.
Just wanted to add, wouldn’t that be epic if Hilary won and they ended up getting married? A woman president and a first lady! A girl can dream…
Forward movement is always a good thing — Huma will be better for it. Too bad Hillary never had the guts to do likewise.
What is going on with Anthony Weiner? Is he a sex addict? Does it have something to do with internet addiction? Or is he just narcissistic, selfish jerk? Why would he keep doing this after already being caught twice? He had to know there was a good chance he’d be caught again.
Huma’s been through the wringer in this marriage. In the beginning I thought it was cool that she gave him another chance. Marriages have survived much worse than sexting but he’s got serious issues. If anyone remembers recent history, Anthony Weiner was hounded out of office – when other legislators have gotten away with worse – because even members of his own party thought him to be an arrogant, grand-standing jerk who wasn’t worthy of their support.