Before Kamala Harris became the current vice-president of the United States and the imminent Democratic nominee for president in the upcoming election, she was a stepmother-to-be. When she first started dating her now-husband Doug Emhoff in 2013, she soon had to prepare to meet her future stepchildren, Ella and Cole Emhoff – and was understandably nervous. {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/20/5ae6569b-d752-4d53-9df7-2f04aa896a33_095c17fb.jpg"} Cole Emhoff with his dad, Doug Emhoff, stepmother Kamala Harris, and sister Ella Emhoff. Photo: @douglasemhoff/Instagram “When the day finally came, I had butterflies in my stomach,” she told Elle magazine in July.
“On my way to meet Doug, I picked up a tin of cookies and tied a ribbon in a bow around them. I took a few deep breaths. I was excited, and I was nervous.
I rehearsed what I would say.” It turns out that she needn’t have worried. Harris recalled that “Cole and Ella couldn’t have been more welcoming”, and that after she married their father, the pair started calling her “Momala”.
Cole confirmed that there were good impressions all around at that first meeting, telling Glamour magazine in 2020 that it was “love at first sight”. S.