Meet Tim Walz's wife Gwen who is standing by Kamala Harris' VP choice By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent For Dailymail.Com In Washington, D.C.
Published: 10:56 EDT, 6 August 2024 | Updated: 10:58 EDT, 6 August 2024 e-mail Advertisement Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's wife Gwen is a teacher like him. The two met as young high school teachers working out of temporary classrooms in Nebraska.
Gwen could hear Tim's loud voice through her classroom wall and she was initially irked by it, according to the Star Tribune. But a relationship blossomed nonetheless. Soon after they met, Gwen and Tim established a summer trip to China for their students.
They took students overseas nearly every summer through 2003, according to the Minnesota first lady's office. The couple were married in 1997. Gwen struggled with infertility and was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota before giving birth to the couple's eldest daughter Hope in January 2021.
The first lady of Minnesota used IVF to conceive, something she might bring up on the campaign trail with some conservative-leaning courts trying to curtail this kind of fertility treatment. 'Gwen and I have two beautiful children because of reproductive health care like IVF. This issue is deeply personal to our family and so many others,' the governor wrote in February after the Alabama ruling that said frozen embryos are children.
Hope is a recent college graduate and a vegetarian, which she discussed in a recent video that went.