NY Daily News: Jenny Sanford Opens Up

(AP)  South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes in her new book that she got short of breath and later felt unwanted and ugly when she found out about her husband's affair with an Argentine woman.

The New York Daily News reported on its Web site Monday that Sanford also writes that one of her sons exclaimed that it's "worse than Eliot Spitzer" when she told them about Gov. Mark Sanford's infidelity.

Spitzer is the former New York governor who resigned after acknowledging he was a client of a call-girl ring.

Jenny Sanford's memoir "Staying True," published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., goes on sale Friday.

She will be interviewed by Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20 on Thursday night. A segment of the interview aired last month, a few days before she filed for divorce from her husband of more than 20 years.

The divorce will be final later this month.

Mark Sanford disappeared from the state for five days last summer, and his staff told reporters he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

But he was really in Argentina seeing his mistress, Maria Belen Chapur, during a trip that was supposed to be an economic development mission.

Mark Sanford, who later called the other woman his "soul mate" in an interview with The Associated Press, publicly confessed the affair during a Statehouse news conference upon his return.

Jenny Sanford told the AP at the time that she discovered the affair in January 2009 when she found a copy of a letter her husband wrote to Chapur. She said in the ensuing months he asked several times for permission to visit his mistress.

Jenny Sanford, a Georgetown-educated, former Wall Street vice president, moved out of the Governor's Mansion last summer and is living with the couple's four sons at their beach house on Sullivans Island.

Mark Sanford's office declined to comment Monday.

[ianlou]

You must be some kind of Strange Exhibitionist to want to share this sort of dirty laundry with the world.

I think I'll write a book about my bowel troubles.

[formrusmcsgt]

Sanford got ahold of a REAL woman, not an ooo-ooo eee-eee dogma drone and learned what he was missing.

The problem is, the schlep should have dumped the dogma drone first.

[FauxNews]

Exactly right.

[formrusmcsgt]

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes in her new book that she got short of breath and later felt unwanted and ugly when she found out about her husband's affair with an Argentine woman.
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Well, it's not like she's pretty....

[klfullernd]

I think she's very attractive and evidently so did Sanford when he had four kids with her, and you sound like a jerk.

[lucymercer]

And another Southern ethicist heard from.....

[sensiblysane]

I agree, PVperson - it was his declaration for love of his mistress that made me sick to my stomach. I'll bet that Sanford's mistress will dump him like a hot potato when he is no longer a 'powerful' American and just a poor anonymous schlep like the rest of us.

[PVperson2]

The worst thing about Sanford was his going on air to blubber and whine over his "soulmate" misstress, he knew he was twisting the knife in his wife's back and spitting on his children the while time he was graveling for the media.

[lucymercer]

I agree with you but it's groveling.