WASHINGTON – Forget about Bill. Hillary Clinton says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is her idea of a hunk.
The secretary of state called the 48-year-old married dad “one of the best-looking guys in the administration.
“He always looks so good, you know? It’s maddening,” the 62-year-old Clinton said on Chinese TV.
“It takes me so much longer [to look good], and it doesn’t even look as good.”
Clinton dished away on daughter Chelsea’s upcoming wedding, a subject that usually draws icy stares from her when American reporters bring it up.
On China‘s Central Television, Clinton even tried to explain the American custom of the bridal shower.
“It is not where you go in and have a shower. It is where friends of the bride and family come together and you give gifts to the bride and you tell stories and you show pictures of when she was a little girl,” Clinton said.
“There will be a lot of that activity” before Chelsea Clinton marries Marc Mezvinsky this summer, she said.
War and peace are big deals on her job, but Clinton said that her daughter’s marriage “is something that every mother dreams of.
“And so for me, it’s the most important activity going on in my life now, I have to confess,” adding in a stage whisper, “Don’t tell anybody.”
Going to the movies with former President Bill Clinton is a huge chore, Clinton said, in joining Geithner for a separate interview on Hong Kong Phoenix TV with Chen Luyu, often called “China’s Oprah.”
Clinton said she has “an ongoing negotiation” with her husband about what movies to see.
“My husband prefers the action movies, the more violence, the better, and I think it’s kind of a male thing,” Clinton said.
Her husband’s attitude is, “‘Just take me to a movie, let me sit there and watch people shoot each other,'” but “I don’t find that relaxing at all,” she said.With News Wire Services
