Loading ...Bernie Sanders‘ bid for the White House was placed under a shadow Thursday as new questions arose as to why the self-described Democratic Socialist has kept his complicated early love life secret for so long.
Sanders has never discussed his first marriage nor the fact that his only natural-born child was with a second woman.
But Daily Mail Online has pieced together the fragments of his life as a revolutionary living in his adopted state of Vermont.
And they reveal that he was married to one woman, yet had his son Levi with a second – long before he went on to marry his current wife.
The Sanders campaign did not respond to Daily Mail Online’s queries about why the veteran senator has kept details of his early life so quiet nor how he expected them to remain secret during his run for the nation’s highest office.
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Future first lady? Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders as he was about to give the speech officially announcing his candidacy for the White House
First wife: Deborah Messing, born Shiling, was Bernie Sanders’ college sweetheart and they moved to Vermont but they divorced 18 months after marrying
Mother of his child: Susan Mott Glaeser, with whom Sanders had his son, Levi, in 1969
The Sugar Shack: Sanders and his first wife Deborah Shiling paid $2,500 for the property on 85 acres of land just outside the small hamlet of Middlesex. It had no electricity, but Deborah told Daily Mail Online there was water – ‘too much’ of it