Life for Karoline Leavitt has become a juggling act between her job as White House press secretary and being a wife and mother.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Leavitt spoke of the struggles of her professional job and her personal job as wife and mother, leading to many canceled date nights.
“Honestly, I have PTSD about making plans, so I just don’t,” Leavitt, 28, said about the plans with her 60-year-old husband, Nicholas Riccio.
“We just roll with it. If there’s a night where I happen to become free, then we take full advantage of that as a family,” she said.
She also said it is best to not make plans after work as the schedule can change minute to minute.
“Definitely, it’s very difficult to make plans in this job,” Leavitt said. “My husband and I had three different mini weekend getaway vacations this summer. All three got canceled due to foreign policy events.”
Leavitt also had cancel a trip with her husband, this summer after a last-minute event came up.
“But that’s part of the job, and it’s what makes it fun and challenging and keeps every day new. And it’s, you know, it’s temporary. We’re one year down. We got three to go,” she said.
Leavitt is hoping to stay in her job until the end of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The four press secretaries Trump has during his first term — Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh McEnany — lasted in the position for less than a year, except Sanders, who held the role for just under two years.
Leavitt’s tenure in the position has surpassed 300 days as she has already beaten three predecessors.
But time with her husband isn’t her only priority.
There is also her almost one-and-a-half-year-old son, Niko.
“My priority is to always make it home for my kid’s bedtime,” she said.
“I leave at a more reasonable hour than people may think, because that’s sort of the line I’ve drawn to get home and cook dinner and go through the bedtime routine and be a mom,” she added.
