Former President Bill Clinton and New York Senator (and Democratic presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton greet well-wishers at the Independence Day Parade in Clear Lake, Iowa, July 4, 2007.

Born to two professors in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Abedin (pictured rear) moved with her Indian father and Pakistani-born mother to Saudi Arabia when she was two, then returned to the United States to attend George Washington University. She was hired as an intern in the Clinton White House, working with first lady Hillary Clinton and rose to prominence, becoming the Deputy Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State when Clinton was at the State Department. 

Abedin was traveling chief of staff for Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign and now serves as vice Chairwoman of the 2016 presidential campaign. Here she confers with the candidate in Los Angeles, February 2, 2008.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., answers reporters’ questions on her campaign plane en route to Warwick, R.I., Feb. 24, 2008. Huma Abedin, Clinton’s traveling chief of staff, is seen at lower right.

Huma Abedin speaks into the ear of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Joe Foss Field Airport, May 8, 2008 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As the candidate’s traveling assistant Abedin earned the nickname “Clinton’s body woman.”

Hillary Clinton greets doctors and staff at the San Juan Bautista Medical Center in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on May 31, 2008, during her campaign for the Puerto Rico primary. 

The Washington Post broke what it called “one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington”: the romance of Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and Clinton aide Abedin, after Weiner was spotted visiting Puerto Rico with Clinton’s entourage. The main reason for the trip? “It’s largely because I’m dating Huma,” he told the Associated Press.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin speak before Clinton chairs the Security Council Session on Women, Peace and Security, September 30, 2009, at United Nations headquarters in New York.

Huma Abedin sits offstage at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2009, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation to the United States Institute of Peace.

President Barack Obama speaks with Huma Abedin, aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a roundtable meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO summit in Lisbon, Nov. 19, 2010. Time Magazine named Abedin to its list of rising stars of American politics, “40 Under 40.”

Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations Brian Mosteller (right) listens to the progress of a meeting taking place in the Oval Office during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s state visit, as he waits in the Outer Oval with (from left to right) Personal Secretary Katie Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer, Chief of Protocol Capricia Marshall, and Huma Abedin, advisor to Hillary Clinton, November 24, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Weiner, 45 and Jewish, and Abedin, 34 and Muslim, married on July 10, 2010 at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York at a ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio participates in a ceremonial swearing-in of Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, as the Democrat’s wife Huma Abedin is seen at center, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

After 12 years, Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal. 

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife Huma Abedin are pictured after a ceremonial swearing-in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011.

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President Barack Obama speaks as Huma Abedin (R), the Muslim wife of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, and who works as a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, listens at an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the State Dining Room of the White House August 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. The invited guests include elected officials, religious and grassroots leaders in the Muslim American community, leaders of diverse faiths and members of the diplomatic corps.

New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin attend a news conference in New York City on July 23, 2013, in which Weiner addressed news of new allegations that he engaged in lewd online conversations with a woman after he resigned from Congress for similar previous incidentsJuly 23, 2013.

Weiner attempted a political comeback in 2013 in his run for mayor, but the campaign was derailed by another sexting scandal. 

Abedin and Weiner were the subject of a recent documentary, “Weiner,” which chronicled Weiner’s mayoral run, and it showcased the fallout from the scandal that ended his mayoral candidacy.

Huma Abedin, aide to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, arrives at a closed door hearing on Capitol Hill October 16, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Abedin was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. 

Huma Abedin, longtime aide to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, attends a Clinton campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 5, 2016. 

Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks off of her plane with aide Huma Abedin at Van Nuys Airport on August 22, 2016 in Van Nuys, California. Hillary Clinton is attending fundraisers in California.