Ashley Biden
Ashley Biden is the proud and stunning daughter of longtime politician and current President of the US, Joe Biden.
Since her former senator and Vice President father needs little introduction, we though we’ll tell you everything we know about his lovely and only daughter Ashley.
At 39, Ashley is a career woman who is happily married, keeps a low profile and has no children, yet. Meet Ashley Biden in her top facts below.
#1 She is the only daughter of Joe Biden and second wife, Jill Biden
Ashley Biden is the youngest child and only daughter of President Joe Biden and his second wife, Jill Biden.
Her father was previously married to Neilia Hunter, who died in a tragic car accident in 1972, along with the couple’s infant daughter, Naomi.
Her father then a widower, remarried to her mother in 1977 and Jill Biden gave birth to Ashley on June 8, 1981. It was the first child for Jill Biden.
By then, Ashley gained two older half brothers, Joseph R. III born in 1969 and R. Hunter born in 1970. She lost brother Beau to brain cancer in 2015.
#2. She had her share of scandals
In 2009 a video of a younger Ashley surfaced in which she appeared to be snorting lines of white powder, causing quite a bit of embarrassment for then Vice President Biden. The video showed Ashley Biden, taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of cocaine. She was apparently a party in her home state of Delaware.
#3 Ashley Biden is a social worker
Ashley Blazer attended Tulane University and received a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a social worker and career development and education liaison in the education office for the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families; where she develops programs for children in the juvenile-justice, foster-care and mental-health systems.
#4 She met her future husband through her brother
In 2012 and after only over a year of dating she married Pennsylvania plastic surgeon Howard Krein, who is 15-years her senior.
The couple were introduced by Ashley’s late brother, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden in 2010.
Krein proposed on a Californian clifftop against a setting sun backdrop. The ceremony was held in Delaware. People magazine reported, Ashley wore Vera Wang and was escorted down the aisle by her famous father.
#5 Ashley’s husband is big-shot surgeon
Howard David Krein holds an impressive resume, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Master’s in Neuroscience from Rutgers University; in addition, to that, he holds a doctoral degree in cell and development biology from the University and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Medical College of Virginia.
Dr. Krein is described as a philanthropist physician who is double board certified in otolaryngology and plastic surgery.
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