2 Quotes & Sayings By Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (October 27, 1929 – November 9, 1994), formerly Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, was an American Actress, Interior Decorator, and First Lady of the United States. She was the widow of John F. Kennedy, who was murdered in 1963. Jacqueline de Rougemont (née Bouvier) was born in Leesburg, Virginia in 1929
Her parents were John Vernou Bouvier III (1905-1957) and Janet Norton Lee (1906-1957). She had two younger brothers: David Jr. and John Vernou IV.
Her father was a real estate broker and part-time whiskey salesman. Her mother was a socialite who enjoyed traveling and had a passion for fashion. In high school she was a cheerleader and starred in school plays.
She attended boarding school at Holton Arms School in Washington D.C., then she entered Spence School in New York City for a while before attending Vassar College from 1948 to 1951, where she studied art history and French literature. She appeared on television as a model for Pantene shampoo commercials from 1957–1959 and a hostess from 1959 to 1962 of the French-language program "Parle-moi d'amour". In the early 1950s she modeled for Vogue Paris and worked as an independent interior designer in New York City for wealthy clients such as the actress Lauren Bacall, producing homes for her employers at their estates on Long Island including The Great Gatsby's house on Long Island Sound, one of her most notable designs of all time.
In 1953 she married South African millionaire Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, 7th Duke of Auchincloss; they divorced in 1957. In 1960 she married Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., an industrialist and political figure from Massachusetts; they had three children: Caroline Kennedy (b. 1960), John F.
Kennedy Jr. (b. May 29, 1963 - died November 22, 1999), and Arabella Kennedy (b.
1964).