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Heidi Montag Is Already LA’s First Lady
On the West Coast, there are so very many first ladies-in-waiting. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images; illustration by The Free Press)
Plus: Joanna Stern on dating an AI chatbot.
By Suzy Weiss
06.05.26 — Second Thought
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Welcome back to the Second Thought newsletter. This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about Heidi Montag, the First Lady LA deserves.

We live in an age of outsider politicians who are deftly using social media to get and hold onto power—to the surprise of everyone else, including their wives. Melania Trump never thought she’d be First Lady of the United Sta…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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