Marco rubio biography wife showing

Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio went to the same high school as her husband, 2016 presidential election candidate Marco Rubio, South Miami High School, in Florida. But they didn’t meet until a neighborhood party when Marco was 19 and Jeanette was 17, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

“I was at the (West Miami Recreation Center) one day playing volleyball and he spotted me,” Jeanette Rubio told the Tampa Bay Times in 2012 “So he asked questions and friends put something together where we would go to the movies and he would sit next to me and then — you know, coincidentally.

Throughout the whole movie he would start talking to me, which I thought was a little annoying.”

Now, 23 years later, Jeanette Rubio, 40, has been thrust into the spotlight as the wife of a presidential candidate.

Here’s what you need to know about Mrs.

Rubio:

1. She Was a Cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins & Was in Their First Swimsuit Calendar