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Karoline Leavitt, reportedly the youngest person to hold the position of White House press secretary, was visited by her husband, Nicholas Riccio, and son at the White House. Leavitt reportedly met Riccio in 2022, while she was running for a Congress seat in New Hampshire.
She posted a picture of the trio posing at the White House on her Instagram with the caption:
"Visiting mama at work. 🥰💙".
The couple have a 32-year-old age difference. They welcomed their son in July 2024 and got married in 2025.
Karoline Leavitt took the position of press secretary under the administration of Donald Trump at the age of 27 and on January 28 she took the podium for her first White House press conference.
Recently she was on The Megyn Kelly Show where she addressed their age difference and admitted that their story is very "atypical."
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Karoline Leavitt was reportedly Trump's campaign spokeswoman before she became a press secretary at the age of 27 in January 2025 under the second Trump Administration. She was announced as Trump's choice for press secretary in November 2024.
Leavitt's husband, 59-year-old Nicholas Riccio, is a real estate developer who grew up in Hudson. After finishing college, he took a real estate course entered the business, and later started his own company, Riccio Enterprises.
On February 2025, while on The Megyn Kelly Show, Karoline Leavitt revealed that she and her husband met about three years ago in 2022 as she was running for a Congres seat in New Hampshire, which she lost to Democrat Chris Pappas.
"A mutual friend of ours hosted an event at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband. I was speaking. We met and we were acquainted as friends and then we fell in love," shared Leavitt.
When Megyn Kelly asked Leavitt about their age gap, while acknowledging the "atypical" nature of their relationship, Levitt said that since her husband has a successful business on his own, he is very supportive of her pursuit of success.
"It's [a] very atypical love story, but he’s incredible. He is my greatest supporter, he’s my best friend, he’s my rock," said Leavitt on The Meghyn Kelly Show.
According to reports, Leavitt once shared in a now-deleted Instagram post that Riccio is very introverted and doesn't even have a social media account. After about a year of dating, the couple got engaged on December 25, 2023, and on July 10, 2024, they welcomed their first child, Niko, aka, Nicholas Robert Riccio.
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According to People, Leavitt had to cut her maternity leave short and return to work because three days after the baby was born Trump's assassination attempt took place on July 13. The duo got married in January 2025, just days before Donald Trump's inauguration
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