When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accepted her position, she was not only the youngest person in history to hold the title, but she had also just recently given birth.
Karoline Leavitt and her husband had a little boy named Nicholas (he is so cute) in July, so not only is she the youngest press secretary in US history, but she is also a new mom.
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While these and other details were common knowledge, Leavitt hadn’t divulged too many details about her husband until a recent interview on Megyn Kelly’s podcast.
As E! News reported:
The 27-year-old White House press secretary offered a glimpse into her relationship with husband Nicholas Riccio, 59, and did not shy away from addressing their 32-year age gap.
“It’s [a] very atypical love story, but he’s incredible,” she said on the Feb. 21 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show. “He is my greatest supporter, he’s my best friend, he’s my rock.”
Leavitt—who is the youngest person in U.S. history to serve in her position—shared that she was first introduced to the real estate developer in 2022 while she was running for a seat in Congress in New Hampshire. While the political aide ultimately lost her bid, she was introduced to her future spouse while on the campaign trail.
“A mutual friend of ours hosted an event at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband,” she explained. “I was speaking. We met, we were acquainted as friends and then we fell in love.”
Following their engagement in 2023, the couple welcomed son Nicholas Robert “Niko” Riccio, now 8 months, in July. They went on to exchange vows two weeks before President Donald Trump’s second Inauguration in January, in what Leavitt recently called “one of my favorite days” in a post on Instagram.
While some of the social media reaction included political jabs and mockery, much of the online response to her candid remarks was thoroughly supportive:
Good for her.
— JSAT124_1980_5 (@JSAT124_1980_5) March 19, 2025
This is the brilliant and beautiful @PressSec Karoline Leavitt and her husband Nicholas Riccio!
America is so fortunate to have such a smart, talented woman as press secretary! pic.twitter.com/PWoA1HDsJk
— Lucy (@TheLucyShow1) March 17, 2025
KAROLINE LEAVITTS 59 YEAR OLD HUSBAND NEVER POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA…HE SUPPORTS HER 100% pic.twitter.com/N7lgRsRLTe
— TOMMYTGME (@RAZORTOMMYCUTS) March 16, 2025
During the same interview, Leavitt also opened up about her husband’s business background, per Realtor.com:
The budding political heavyweight went on to praise her husband’s success in the real estate industry, noting that the multimillion-dollar property empire he had built before they met enabled him to support her as she chased her dreams.
“He’s built a very successful business himself, so now he’s fully supportive of me building my success in my career,” she said.
“He’s the father of my child, and he’s the best dad I could ever ask for. And he is so supportive, especially during a very chaotic period of life.”
Riccio, who experienced homelessness in his youth, managed to build himself an estimated net worth of around $6 million, which he was able to use to help fund his wife’s failed campaign for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Beyond that, Leavitt said, her husband’s property business also gave him the freedom to take care of things at home, enabling her to throw herself fully into her work in Washington, DC.
“I say, ‘I walked into your life and it’s been a circus ever since,’ but God bless him, because he’s fully on board,” she joked.
Here’s a clip of her full interview with Kelly:
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