Jackie Kennedy ‘almost certainly’ contracted multiple sexually transmitted diseases from her husband and only agreed to remain married after her father-in-law paid her $1 million, a new book reveals.
John F. Kennedy likely infected her with asymptomatic chlamydia and other diseases that he picked up during extramarital affairs.
Chlamydia can cause problems with fertility. Jackie suffered multiple miscarriages and the traumatic third-trimester stillbirth of her daughter Arabella in 1956.
It wasn’t until later that she would discover her husband’s STDs were likely to blame.
Jackie Kennedy ‘almost certainly’ contracted multiple sexually transmitted diseases from her husband and only agreed to remain married after her father-in-law paid her $1 million, a new book reveals.
Author and DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan — whose new book ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’ is being published exclusively by the Mail — reveals how Jackie subsequently struck a deal with JFK’s father Joe in 1956.
Tiring of JFK’s serial infidelity, Jackie said she was toying with divorce, but Joe feared a split would scupper any hopes of a bid for the presidency by his son — then a senator.
So instead ‘he offered her $1 million to stay in the marriage,’ Callahan writes. ‘And millions more if Jack ever gave her a sexually transmitted disease again.’
John F. Kennedy likely infected Jackie with asymptomatic chlamydia and other diseases that he picked up during extramarital affairs.
Jackie gave birth to her first child, Caroline, in November 1957. John Jr. followed in 1960. A second son, Patrick, died just two days after birth in 1963.
Up to 75 percent of women show no symptoms for Chlamydia. Left untreated or contracted recurrently, it can cause infertility. It can spread to the womb, ovaries or fallopian tubes and cause pelvic inflammatory disease — which permanently damages the reproductive organs.
Chlamydia can also produce hostile bacteria in women that leads to stillbirth and miscarriages.
Jackie gave birth to her first child, Caroline, in November 1957. John Jr. followed in 1960.
A second son, Patrick, died just two days after birth in 1963.