What is known about Chelsea, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton?
She was only two years old when she first campaigned with her father Bill. Today, Chelsea Clinton accompanies her mother
Philadelphia. Poised, discreet and faithful, Chelsea Clinton was just two years old when she first campaigned with her father Bill for governor of Arkansas, a tender endorsement she has maintained through her teens and adulthood to become a key pillar for her mother, Hillary Clinton.
Already in 2008 she presented her father as a "heroine" at the Democratic convention from which the then young Senator Barack Obama was elected as presidential candidate.
Today Chelsea will return to the stage hand in hand with her mother, whom she helped to become the first woman senator from New York in 2000 and whom she considers "the best prepared person" for the Presidency of the United States, according to has said during this campaign.
Born on February 27, 1980 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Chelsea has been the most important thing for her busy parents since the beginning of her existence and many have wanted to see in the only daughter of the Clintons a future president, although Chelsea prefers the humanitarian work of the family foundation.
"The first time someone asked me about a political career I think I was three years old. My father was running for re-election as governor of Arkansas, we were at a campaign event and a woman asked me if I wanted to be the governor of Arkansas one day I think I told her, ma'am, I'm three years old," she says.
In this way, in a recent interview on The Ellen Show, Chelsea defended that "there are many ways to serve" the country, while, as always, she avoided leaving her usual background.
In 2011 Chelsea began to play a major role in the foundation, created in 1997 and renamed the Clinton Foundation in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where the presidential daughter has undertaken numerous initiatives to improve life of women in different parts of the world.
With a doctorate in international relations from the British University of Oxford, Chelsea Clinton lives in New York, is married to Marc Mezvinsky, her teenage friend and financial investor, and they have two children: Charlotte born in September 2014 and Aidan Clinton, which is just over a month old.
Adolescence in the White House
Chelsea now moves before the public with the grace of a butterfly and sports a long mane of straight blonde hair that has replaced the tousled curly hair she wore in her years in the White House, where she arrived at almost 13 years old and in the company of the cat "Socks" (socks), the most famous feline in the USA.
It was not always easy being a teenager in the White House, but without a doubt one of the hardest moments came in 1998, when she had just entered Stanford University and it was revealed that her father had had an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
A day after Bill Clinton admitted on television to having an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky, Chelsea rushed to her parents' aid and took photos with them that are still etched in the minds of many Americans.
In the images, the marriage is seen walking through the gardens of the White House and Chelsea, in the middle, holding her parents' hands and holding them together, literally and figuratively.
The Lewinsky affair never left the Clinton family, and in 2008, Chelsea faced numerous questions as she campaigned for her mother at universities across the country.
At first, Chelsea responded abruptly but then she found her voice and she knew how to clear the matter with grace and elegance, putting into practice the teachings of her parents.
And it is that, when Bill was preparing to compete again for the governorship of Arkansas, Chelsea, only six years old and sitting at the kitchen table at home, participated with her parents in fictitious debates intended for the little girl to understand that she would always there would be people who would say cruel things about the people they love.
According to Hillary's 1996 book "It Takes a Village," the little girl "slowly gained control of her emotions."
Described as a "spiritual guide" due to her slow and hard-working personality, Chelsea Clinton has played a fundamental role in this presidential campaign in softening the image of her mother, who has managed to bring out her human side and portray herself as a "granny" thanks to her two little grandchildren.
But if her mother wins, Chelsea wants nothing to do with the White House even though she knows her destiny is already tied to that building.
"My life will continue in New York," Chelsea has warned on several occasions during this campaign, the last of a long number that will reach one of its peak moments today when the young woman, immersed in her role as the perfect daughter-in-law, will take the stage to defend her mother as the next president of the United States.
