1989 Boston Globe: John Kerry - The Senate's New Romeo?

The Boston Globe Archives | August 22, 1989 | John Robinson

[nwrep]

His divorce has been final for only six months, but already Sen. John Kerry has acquired a first-class rake's reputation in the rarefied world of rich, handsome, young bachelor senators.

To hear the gossips tell it, the tall, dark-haired former Navy officer with the surgically improved chin has been cutting a swath through the ranks of America's most available young women, inspiring both admiration and envy among the capital's preening young singles.

There was the lithesome, British-born researcher for ABC-TV, Emma Gilby, whose long affair with Kerry has left her speechless about it. "There's just nothing I want to say about it," she said.

There was also Morgan Fairchild, the movie actress whom Kerry reportedly courted on the Q.T. while dating another woman.

More recently, there was Catherine Oxenberg.

His long love affair with Boston attorney Roanne Sragow collapsed under the weight of repeated press allegations of simultaneous love affairs Kerry was conducting with Sragow and other women, most notably Fairchild

[KQQL]

surgically improved chin ??/

[connectthedots]

Hillary doesn't want Kerry to win the election.

[Clara Lou]

And I'm sure all of the feminists support this MCP.

[Baynative]

"...with the surgically improved chin"

Note to John Kerry: CALL YOUR LAWYER!

[HighWheeler]

If he wants to be the new Romeo like the old Romeo, he needs to find a cup of poison to drink. Cheers!

[Asclepius]

He was young in '89? Younger, yes. But young? And his chin was improved?

[FairOpinion]

"surgically improved chin ??/"


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I know that wasn't the point of the article, but that's what caught my attention too.

What did his chin look like before if this is the improved version?

[Servant of the 9]

.... the tall, dark-haired former Navy officer with the surgically improved chin ....

If Herman Munster's chin is an 'improvement' then what in God's name did he look like before?

Anyone got before and after pictures?

He must have had Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon to end up looking like that.

So9

[pookie18]

Morgan Fairchild, yeah, that's the ticket!

[Clara Lou]

I would assume that was his original chin that we saw in the debate with John O'Neill on Dicka Cavitt's show. At any rate, we have a vain man running for POTUS.

[jocon307]

"[H]e needs to find a cup of poison to drink. Cheers!"

LOL, good one. He's such a slut this JFK, maybe it's something in the initials.

[FairOpinion]

John Kerry and Julia did not formally divorce until 1988, by which time Kerry had been dating (in the strict sense adulterously) for more than half a decade. The gossip columns linked Kerry romantically to, among others, actress Morgan Fairchild, Cornelia Guest and Patti Davis, the leftist daughter of Republican President Ronald Reagan.

“After his divorce to Julia Thorne was finalized,” notes a CBS News timeline on Kerry’s career, “it was apparent how much she helped the family financially. The divorce left him strapped for cash…Before finally renting apartments in Washington and Boston, he was a bit of a roamer.”

Translation: during six years of separation from his wife Julia, John Kerry continued to live on money she provided to him. Before and after their divorce in 1988, Kerry slept around – both in the beds of other women and in the plush accommodations provided to him by lobbyists, especially after his election to the U.S. Senate in the Orwellian year 1984.

Among the goodies lobbyists and other insiders provided Kerry, writes Michael Grunwald of The New Republic, were “a car he ‘leased’ for 16 months without any payments, a ritzy condo he rented for $200 per month from a friendly developer, a no-risk $21,000 real estate windfall arranged by a top fund-raiser, a lobbyist’s $8,000-per-month waterfront apartment where he crashed without paying.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11939

[Mike Darancette]

surgically improved chin ??/

How did that one get by the GOP attack machine? ---- LOL.

[John Thornton]

And out of all these young beautiful women, who does he marry? A plain older woman. Her $500 million had absolutely nothing to do with it, I'm sure.

[sinkspur]

Once he got a look at each chick's bank account, however, he moved on.

[The South Texan]

Sounds like a gigglo to me.

Can someone cue up that classic David Lee Roth song please?

[Thom Pain]

You forgot the projectile vomiting alert.

[wildwood]

how many times has he been married? wasn' t he married to someone else until he married heinz?

[HighWheeler]

"then what in God's name did he look like before?"

[Howlin]

Kerry sounds more like a male version of Blanche DuBois.

[Quilla]

I was thinking more like this:

[mikrofon]

The divorce left him strapped for cash…Before finally renting apartments in Washington and Boston, he was a bit of a roamer.

Roam-eo, Roam-eo, wherefore art thou, Roam-eo?

[agite rem mente]

I believe Emma Gilby is the current wife of Bill Keller who is the editor of the NY Times.

[FairOpinion]

John Gigolo Kerry

[CaptainK]

Run around John is 7 years older than Morgan, 9 years older than Patti and 20 years older than Cornelia. Maturity must have lead him to Teresa. Hers, not his.

[tractorman]

I can’t help it but to think that this is probably the only time in my life that I agree with Shrillary:

I don’t want Kerry to win either.

Time for a shower.

[tractorman]

Evidently Kerry had more chins than Clinton ‘s Chinese telephone book.

[alloysteel]

By the way, whatever happened to that reporterette he was supposed to have been trifling with, the one that disappeared somewhere in Africa? Did she ever resurface, or is she still in exile?

[OldEagle]

They want us to believe that JFKII was a sleep-around apartment-sharing romeo (as well as a harley rider).
I wonder if he was close to Condit??

[Watery Tart]

Morgan Fairchild, yeah, that's the ticket!

D'oh, ya beat me to it!

[maggief]

Kerry is classically drawn as How a Senator Should Look: He is 6 feet 4 and slim with a helmet of brownish-silver hair, high and knobby cheekbones and a surgically enhanced chin -- not cosmetic surgery, contrary to speculation. (The operation, says Kerry press secretary David Wade, was to correct "a malocclusion," a bad bite that caused a clicking in his jaw.)

http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20020605teresanat1p1.asp

[maggief]

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004 11:00 p.m. EST
Kerry Plagued by Pre-Botox Plastic Surgery Rumors

For Democratic Party front-runner John Kerry, rumors that his appearance has been cosmetically enhanced didn't start with last week's Botox story.

In fact, Kerry has long admitted that he had corrective surgery to his jaw in the 1970s - only he maintains it was to fix a bite malocclusion that he's had since childhood, as aides told The Hill earlier this year.

Or, as Kerry himself told Vanity Fair magazine back in 1996, he had surgery on the area in question after breaking his jaw playing hockey.

Commenting on the Vanity Fair revelation, the Boston Herald noted at the time, "The junior senator used to be a lot more - shall we say - lantern-jawed than he is today."

That same year the Boston Globe noted, "Washington gossip columnists have whispered about Kerry's once-bulging jaw - that he had plastic surgery to make it look more telegenic."

The Globe said Sen. Kerry carries a letter from his plastic surgeon testifying that his jaw surgery was medically necessary.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/3/230133.shtml

[TommyDale]

I don't know about the "surgically improved chin", but Kerry definitely has a glass jaw!

[TommyDale]

The DNA gathered in Condit's "orgy" apartment will tell all.

[pookie18]

Sorry. When there's a Kerry movie, he should be played by either Jon Lovitz (or Joe Isuzu).

[mass55th]

Kerry supposedly had chin surgery many years ago, claiming he had suffered an injury to his chin playing hockey. But everybody knew it was an attempt to try to make himself more marketable.

[mass55th]

"Evidently Kerry had more chins than Clinton ‘s Chinese telephone book."

Oh my God! I just wet my pants over this one!!

[Dan from Michigan]

Kerry definitely has a glass jaw!

ROFL. Can't catch a football either.

[Dog Anchor]

Kerry supposedly had chin surgery many years ago, claiming he had suffered an injury to his chin playing hockey. But everybody knew it was an attempt to try to make himself more marketable.

Did he recieve a purple heart???????

[mombonn]

Being roughly the same age as the sinator, I must say - NEVER would I have found crazy-legs kerry "handsome".

Tom Selleck, yes! Jack Lord, not bad. Plastic-boy kerry, NEVER!

[Use It Or Lose It]

What did his chin look like before if this is the improved version?

I'm sure someone will be kind enough to post a still shot from the Meet the Press Interview or the Congressional Hearings from the 70's...as compared to any photo of Kerry today. The docs musta whacked off a good inch or two. He still has that nasty habit of sticking out his tongue when he talks, tho. Drives me nuts.

[OldEagle]

That is something that I wonder about.

[GailA]

He should have put the money into fixing his mule teeth.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

I really don't care about who he ran around with ...

In today's society, dating a glamorous actress ads "appeal" to your image anyway ...

But notice that the press has CONSISTENTLY ignored these tidbits, while focusing endlessly on legal, rthical, business ties between Cheney and Hallliburton!

"Among the goodies lobbyists and other insiders provided Kerry, writes Michael Grunwald of The New Republic, were “a car he ‘leased’ for 16 months without any payments, a ritzy condo he rented for $200 per month from a friendly developer, a no-risk $21,000 real estate windfall arranged by a top fund-raiser, a lobbyist’s $8,000-per-month waterfront apartment where he crashed without paying.”

[Ruth A.]

In fact, Kerry has long admitted that he had corrective surgery to his jaw in the 1970s - only he maintains it was to fix a bite malocclusion that he's had since childhood, as aides told The Hill earlier this year.

He is quite accustomed to having his doctors explain things. Seems strange with Swiss finishing schools, Yale and such that his parents never fixed a problem he had since youth. Or was a problem with a hockey injury? (Biking injury and the shoulder surgery--another pattern.)

I am only surprised that he didn't go back and film a recreation of the doctor's recommending surgery.

[Smartass]

[NYC GOP Chick]

I think it was Don Imus who used to call him the Larry Fortensky of the Senate.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, Ketchup Boy did learn something from "Date 'em and Drown 'em" Admiral Teddy of the SS Oldsmobile.

[Charles Henrickson]

Actually, sriously, there is an inherited trait called "Hapsburg jaw" (a protruding lower jaw) that can and *should* be corrected through surgery. I know a man who has had this surgery, and his daughter, who inherited the trait, will also have the surgery when she is old enough. So if Kerry had this condition, I would not blame him for having that surgery.

Botox, however, is another matter.