So now the Trump supporters claim Ted & Heidi Cruz are kissin' cousins?

I have some cute cousins...however I would feel a lil weird marrying one...to each their own I suppose as long as it is legal!

[side note: according to law 2nd cousins and beyond are not considered ,under law to be incest.]

Well, now I am waiting with baited breath to see Rudy Giuliani comment...I'm thinking being that : When Rudy had just graduated law school in 1968 when he married his third cousin, Regina Peruggi. Or so he thought. Accounts differ, but it seems that they figured out in 1982 that they were actually second cousins, which was just a little too close to home. Coincidentally enough, this discovery was made about the same time he met second wife Donna Hanover. Regina and Rudy divorced in 1982, the marriage was officially annulled by the Catholic church in 1983 and Rudy married Donna in 1984



A few other notables who married their cousins, distant or otherwise:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of America's most beloved President/First Lady pairs were cousins. Distant cousins, though. Although they had met as children, they became reacquainted after a dinner at the White House in 1902 held by Eleanor's uncle and Franklin's fifth cousin, President Teddy Roosevelt. FDR was 20 at the time and was attending Harvard. Eleanor was 17 and had just had her formal introduction into society with her debutante party. They were married on St. Patrick's Day, 1905, and had six children in a span of 10 years.

Albert Einstein

Yes, our very own beloved Einstein. He was actually somewhat of a philanderer "“ he moved in with his second cousin, Elsa, in 1917"¦two years before his divorce from his first wife, Mileva. They were separated, though. He married Elsa in 1919, not too long after his divorce from Mileva was finalized. Letters in his own hand showed that he cheated on Elsa, though, and had at least half a dozen girlfriends while he was married to her. Elsa died in 1936 after coming down with heart and kidney problems and it would appear that his newfound bachelorhood suited Einstein just fine: he never married again and had plenty of girlfriends until his death in 1955.


"¢ Jesse James "“ first cousin Zerelda "Zee" Mimms
"¢ Thomas Jefferson "“ third cousin Martha Wayles
"¢ H.G. Wells "“ first cousin Isabel Mary Wells (he left her after just three years, though)
"¢ Igor Stravinsky - first cousin Katerina Nossenko
"¢ Carlo Gambino - first cousin Catherine Castellano
"¢ Lots of Royals, including Queen Elizabeth II (third cousin Prince Philip); Marie Antoinette (second cousin King Louis XVI) and Catherine the Great (second cousin Peter III of Russia).

At any rate I suppose Kissin' Cousins would be a appropriate song  to play #NowPlaying : https://youtu.be/f3nbRWJN0F0