She was born in White Plains, Westchester Co., New York, Bessette grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Boston University in 1988. An occasional model, she eventually became a publicist for fashion designer Calvin Klein in New York City, where she met Kennedy. She married John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. on September 21, 1996 on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
As soon as she and her then future husband John Jr. began dating, she became the subject of several gossip newspapers; she would be in tabloid headlines for the rest of her life. A former Baywatch star and Calvin Kleinunderwear model named Michael Bergin claims that Carolyn Bessette had an affair with him.
She became a style icon for women all around the world with her effortless chic look, second only to her mother-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
CarolynBessetteKennedy was born on January 7, 1966 in White Plains, NY then moved to Greenwich, CT, when her parents divorced when she was eight years old.
Carolyn and her twin sisters, Lauren and Lisa, were raised by their mother, Ann Freeman, who worked as a teacher and administrator in the New York public schools, and their stepfather, Richard Freeman, an orthopaedic surgeon.
BessetteKennedy, 33, married Kennedy in a top-secret ceremony in September 1996.
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