Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter shared a whale of a tale with Town & Country more than a decade ago, but it went viral for the first time over the weekend, thanks to an unlikely confluence of two factors: Kennedy ending his presidential campaign, and his daughter reportedly choosing to strike up a budding connection with Hollywood’s most divorced man, Ben Affleck.
Forget brain worms, Central Park bears, and barbecued dog carcasses, it’s time to talk about the whale.
Profiled by Town & Country for the magazine’s Christmas 2012 issue, Kick Kennedy shared a bizarre anecdote about what the writer characterized as her father’s “extreme environmentalism.”
AJ McDougall is a breaking news reporter for The Daily Beast. Before graduating from Columbia University in 2022, she wrote for Vice and E! News, and previously interned at the Beast, Vogue Singapore, and Backstage.
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