Jill Biden Looks Almost Unrecognizable in a Vintage Photo from Her Early Days with Joe

Jill Biden admitted that Joe was not her usual type

Jill Biden had the hair of a flower child and the dating history to match, according to remarks she made during the “Fashion For Our Future” event in September 2024, noted by Women’s Wear Daily. She recalled wearing her hair down to her waist. Throwback photos she shared on Instagram show her style leaned toward earthy, romantic, maybe even a little rebellious. So when a sharply dressed senator arrived at her door in a perfect suit and polished leather loafers, it felt like a wardrobe clash disguised as a first date. “Thank God, it’s only one date,” she remembered thinking. But dinner changed everything, and apparently, the chemistry sparkled. “I said to myself, ‘Thank God I voted for him,'” she confessed.

The pair married in 1977 following four failed proposals, according to Harper’s Bazaar, but it appeared five was the charm. Decades later, the sharp-shoed senator and the flower-child maiden have both evolved. When it comes to style, Jill has proven time and time again that fashion has no age, it just evolves, and it surprises … much like love — something that Jill and Joe know about firsthand. “I try to be a support for Joe, because I don’t know how many people are saying to him, ‘That was great. That was brilliant.’ I try to be that person for him,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2022.