Reply #77: N&O: The self-proclaimed "anti-barbie" helped "change the way political wives were viewed."

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Still, Elizabeth Edwards helped change the way political wives were viewed. She was the self-proclaimed "anti-Barbie" who was comfortable sitting in on campaign strategy meetings, chatting with Oprah on TV, or even going head-to-head with conservative columnist Ann Coulter.

She brought a similar self-possession to the media attacks that circulated around her in the wake of news about her husband's infidelity.

"I'm 5 feet 2, dark-haired and could hardly be further from the Barbie figure," Edwards once said. "I think of myself as a fairly serious person."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/06/847131/cancer-claims-elizabeth-edwards.html#ixzz17SxI6b2u