Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio: Who Is Marco Rubio’s Wife?

Jeanette Christina Dousdebes Rubio, born December 5, 1973, is an American former cheerleader, who is married to United States Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio.

Jeanette was born in Florida, to parents who had emigrated from Colombia. When she was six, her parents divorced. Jeanette was raised Roman Catholic and attended South Miami High School.

She met her future husband, Marco Rubio, at a neighborhood party when she was 17 and he was 19. After graduating from high school, she attended Miami Dade College.

Before her marriage, she worked as a bank teller. In 1997, she became a member of the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders. Her sister, Adriana Dousdebes, was also a cheerleader for the Dolphins.

Jeanette was featured in the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders’ first swimsuit calendar. It was during her time as a cheerleader that Jeanette Dousdebes and Marco Rubio, who were only slightly acquainted in high school, met again and began to date.

When the Rubios were first married, she enrolled in a course of study in fashion design at International Fine Arts College, but did not complete her studies, devoting herself, instead, to being a full-time mother of four children.

Rubio has told the press that mothering four small children while married to a politician is very much “like being a single mom.”

During her husband’s service in the Florida legislature, Rubio lived with the children near Miami, traveling to Tallahassee to be with her husband as often as she could.