Ann Romney's father was a wealthy manufacturer and mayor of Bloomfield Hills [View all]

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which is, and was then, one of the wealthiest communities of its size in the country. She led a life every bit as privileged, growing up, as Mitt did.

Ann Romney has never, not one day in her life, worked a paying job.

Guests at their 250 guest wedding, held at her parents home in Bloomfield Hills, followed by a reception at the country club, included Minority Leader Gerald Ford.

She lived in comfortable and luxurious houses. She had help in the home. They make much of how they purportedly didn't have a nanny, but they haven't made the claim that they didn't have maids and we know they had gardeners. By the by, here's a link to pictures of all their homes- including the little place in Belmont. Tell me that house ran without a staff. They bought the house in 1989 when their oldest was nineteen and their youngest was 9.

http://www.celebrityhousepictures.com/mitt-romney.php

Ann and Mitt bought their first home in Belmont in 1971. They borrowed money from his father to do so. They bought a little pied a terre in Belmont in 2010 for approximately $900,000.

Ann and Mitt like to talk about their hard times financially. They never had any. And I think Mitt likes to brag about how he's a self-made man- except for the stocks that they lived on in college and the money for a house from Mitt's father, but what about Ann's wealthy dad? Did she have an inheritance? How much money to her father give them when they were "just starting out"?

During her arduous years of motherhood, it looks like that's about all Ann did- other than horseback riding. And Boston has some very nice place to shop. She didn't volunteer much evidently. She didn't go to grad school- though she says she wanted too but she was just too busy.

She got MS but she doesn't seem to suffer much from it- evidently it doesn't really limit her activities. She credits a combination of alternative and regular therapies. She had non-invasive breast cancer, had a lumpectomy. It was caught at stage zero. She did not have chemo. She did have radiation. She did not have reconstructive surgery. Her condition was not life threatening.


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Ann Romney, wife of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was diagnosed and treated for early stage breast cancer in 2008. Soon after her diagnosis, she released a statement saying she had been diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS), a non-invasive type of breast cancer that is considered to be a precancerous form of the disease.

After a routine mammogram, the then 59-year-old underwent a lumpectomy, followed by radiation therapy. While DCIS is not life threatening, when left untreated, in some cases it can become invasive.

http://cancer.about.com/od/celebritiesandcancer/a/Ann-Romney-And-Breast-Cancer.htm

I'm not suggesting that her MS and early stage breast cancer weren't trying, but Ann had every possible advantage in treating them and she had no other worries to focus on- like finances or caring for an infirm parent or whatever.