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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an interesting relationship with food. He once told a journalist<\/a> that he would \u201ceat virtually anything\u201d with the exception of humans, monkeys, and dogs. Another time, he told the New York Times<\/a> that he ate so many tuna-fish sandwiches he got mercury poisoning. These days, he\u2019s obsessed with frying things in beef tallow<\/a> and enjoys doing raw-milk shooters<\/a> at the White House. As secretary of Health and Human Services, he is expected to recommend<\/a> that Americans eat more saturated fat, contradicting decades of evidence<\/a> that diets high in saturated fat can increase the risk of heart disease. He has said<\/a> his current diet is \u201cmainly meat and anything fermented\u201d \u2014\u00a0and it sounds like his wife, Cheryl Hines, isn\u2019t loving it.<\/p>\n Hines has been making the rounds on the MAGA-podcast sphere<\/a>, singing her husband\u2019s praises and promoting her upcoming memoir<\/a>. But while she\u2019s onboard with Kennedy\u2019s assault on public health, she\u2019s not completely thrilled with his personal dietary choices. In a clip<\/a> from her appearance on Katie Miller\u2019s podcast<\/a> this week, Hines said that Kennedy is still only eating meat and fermented vegetables. \u201cIn the morning, at 6:30, he\u2019s cooking a steak and eating sauerkraut,\u201d she said, and the smell, as you can probably imagine, is\u00a0a lot. \u201cWhen I\u2019m just trying to have my latte and that\u2019s coming at me, it\u2019s like, Woah, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t stop there. Hines said that Kennedy is so committed to his diet that, when they go out to eat, he insists on bringing his own sauerkraut. \u201cWe\u2019ll be in the car, dressed up \u2026 I\u2019ll have my little clutch, one of my good bags that I only take out every once in a while because I want to keep them nice, and he\u2019ll hand me a bag of sauerkraut and say, \u2018Can you put this in your bag?\u2019\u201d Hines clarified that, actually, she\u2019s not opposed to carrying her husband\u2019s sauerkraut on their dates, she just needs some advance warning. \u201cIf you tell me ahead of time I can bring a sauerkraut bag \u2026 I won\u2019t bring the Chanel,\u201d she joked. \u201cWhen I walk in, people will say, \u2018Ew, what\u2019s that smell?\u2019 \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it, it\u2019s my husband\u2019s dinner.\u2019\u201d That\u2019s love, baby.<\/p>\n Stay in touch.<\/p>\n Get the Cut newsletter delivered daily<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n