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Read. from the NY Times: Carolyn Bessette Was Living the Dream. Then She Met John.
In the sixth episode — “The Wedding” — Ms. Bessette’s onscreen mother, Ann, played by Constance Zimmer, gives voice to a concern for her daughter that hindsight confirmed: Wasn’t marrying into the Kennedy clan going to make her lose herself entirely?
In real life, once Ms. Bessette Kennedy and her husband returned from their honeymoon in Turkey, she essentially vanished, almost literally. She never spoke to the press. She became increasingly blond; even her eyebrows nytimes.com/2024/03/03/…. Her clothes became armorlike. Married to America’s prince, she became the princess trapped in the tower — in this case, a floor-through TriBeCa penthouse loft. On the rare occasion when she was seen on the street, she looked terrified, overwhelmed by the onslaught of cameramen. She was often photographed looking down, rarely smiling. I can’t help wondering if she craved the freedom she once had, the same way we do more than a quarter-century later.