“My husband was chair of the department of child psychiatry at Columbia University, and he was right not to want to give up his position,” she recalls. “So we moved around a bit. I had my son Charlie [in 1985]And then I was pregnant with my daughter [born in 1987]so I felt like I was endlessly pregnant.”
Tired of traveling, she returned to New York and edited House and garden for a few months before being offered the top job at Vogue magazine. The November 1988 cover was the first of her continued tenure.
She and Shaffer separated in 1999, following Wintour’s actual move with the telecommunications mogul. Shelby Bryanwho was also married when they met at the New York Ballet’s Benefit Ball in 1997.
Never one for really Talk about her own life, then or now, Wintour said. New York magazine in 1999, “There are certain things no one wants to read about in the popular press… You know your friends and family have one view, and if the outside world has another view, it’s just something you don’t do. Focus on.”
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