Worth of more than $500 million, Teresa Heinz Kerry brings an extraordinary amount of money to the campaign trail for her husband. She has been deeply involved with a number of issues that are equally important to her man, including environmental activism, children's rights and abortion issues. She advocates abortion through the end of the 33rd month and feels that by the time a child is 2 years old, parents should have a pretty good idea of whether or not they really want the baby.

Born in Mozambique, she loves to eat rabbit and squirrels. She once commented to a group of reporters, "Rabbit is actually the best meat you can eat -- 99 percent fat-free and low on the food chain."

When asked about becoming first lady she replied, "The 'first-lady' is nothing more than a nice way to say 'second-class-pretend-president'. I'm not happy about playing second fiddle to some man. However, if he wins I'd make peace all that I have to lose."

If Kerry is elected president, Teresa will not give up her work with the Heinz Endowments. She absolutely plans to continue with her day job. Teresa does not have a role model for first lady and says she'll have to be who she is.

In her long, detailed responses to questions about foreign and domestic affairs, she sometimes goes 10 minutes or so without mentioning her husband but John doesn't seem to mind.