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When Maria married Arnold, she says she never thought her body-building, Terminator husband would go into politics. "I was as safe as you could get. [I thought], 'No way.' It was never going to happen," she says. "Which also tells me, you so don't know anything. You so don't know anything, and you cannot plan."
As a Democratic first lady in a Republican administration, Maria says she felt lost and confused. "I was like, 'Where am I? What movie am I in? Do I wear pearls? Do I go to the Republican events? Do I go to the Democratic events? They probably don't want me anymore. Where do I go? What do I do?'"
During this time in her life, Maria says she allowed herself to cry. "I never cried before. I was very tough," she says. "My mother is extremely tough, and that's who I was."
Slowly, Maria started expressing her emotions and allowed herself to be vulnerable. "Once I started taking that [armor] off, wow. I found a whole new me in there."
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