In 2006, when Usha Vance was still a college junior called Usha Chilukuri, she appeared in the “50 most beautiful people list” of the Yale student magazine, Rumpus.

“The charming Chilukuri says that she doesn’t have particular preferences as far as the less fair sex is concerned,” said the article, “though she does like a man who has a lot to say for himself.”

“In the past, her liaisons have been tall, handsome, and conservative (though she herself is of the leftish political persuasion). However, she says that the future doesn’t necessarily have to imitate the past. So stay hopeful.”

Today, Brittany Hugoboom, the editor-in- chief of conservative women’s magazine Evie, says: “Usha is just really pretty and I like that.” And that just about sums up how little the American public knows – or cares about– the second lady.

The Vances’ story appears to be one of perpetual ideological shifting as they navigate their way to the top

The Vances’ story appears to be one of perpetual ideological shifting as they navigate their way to the top

In rawer moments, for instance when Mrs. Vance steps off a plane with her children, hair windswept, she looks youthful and slightly disheveled.

“You can kind of see how natural and organic she is,” says a source close to the second lady. “When it’s them coming from family time, out into the world, she’s literally always smiling. That has nothing to do with the fact of what........

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