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Maria Owings Shriver is an American writer and journalist. Shriver is a member of the Shriver family and Kennedy family, a former First Lady of California, and the founder of the non-profit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to actor and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with whom she had four children, before separating in 2011 and divorcing in 2021…
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culture · American journalist and author (born 1955) · journalist · writer · news presenter · lawyer · women's rights activist · children's writer · actor · also Maria Shriver, Maria Owings Shriver, Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, Shriver
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“s often try to make the person into who they were, but her own children helped her understand that she needed to accept her father for the person he had become. A scene from ‘The Alzheimer’s Project”
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Today: Maria Shriver explains why she went to a convent after split from Arnold Schwarzenegger
Shriver revealed that she had changed her registration from Democrat to independent, stating that there are good people and bad people in both parties
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The Alzheimer's Association awarded Shriver with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2016).
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Shriver published the coloring book Color Your Mind, a coloring book for people with Alzheimer's
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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink was published; it is about women and their children in poverty
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Shriver returned to the anchor desk on Today, filling-in for Savannah Guthrie for the first time since 1998 as co-anchor with Matt Lauer
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NBC announced that Shriver would join the network again as a special anchor working on issues surrounding the shifting roles of women in American life
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Schwarzenegger publicly admitted to fathering Joseph Baena with longtime household staff member Mildred "Patty" Baena
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Shriver said: "Thank you all for the kindness, support and compassion
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Schwarzenegger and Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage, and Shriver moved out of the couple's Brentwood mansion
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On May 9, 2011, Schwarzenegger and Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage, and Shriver moved out of the couple's Brentwood mansion.
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In a message for her Twitter followers posted on May 13, 2011, Shriver said: "Thank you all for the kindness, support and compassion.
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“s Brentwood mansion. In a message for her Twitter followers posted on May 13, 2011, Shriver said:”
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I ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal." Shriver filed for divorce on July 1, 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences".
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Attracted more than 30,000 attendees and 150 world opinion leaders over three full days
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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's was published
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Shriver was honored with the Shinnyo-en Foundation's 2009 Pathfinders to Peace Award, which is bestowed annually to a person who exemplifies the ideals of compassion, harmony, and peace
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Shriver endorsed Senator Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination
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Shriver executive-produced American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver
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Shriver launched her WE Invest Program, which provides training, mentoring, support networks, microloans and other resources to help women launch or grow their businesses
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Shriver returned to television news as substitute host of panel-discussion talk show Larry King Live on CNN with musician Sheryl Crow and other guests
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At the Museum to honor legendary Californians such as Cesar Chavez, Clint Eastwood, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Ronald Reagan, John Steinbeck, Rita Moreno, Earl Warren, Julia Morgan, Leland Stanford, Dorothea Lange and
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Shriver launched her WE Connect Program, which connects working families in need with money-saving programs and support services
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Shriver asked to be "relieved of [her] duties at NBC News," citing concerns the network had over the conflict of interest between her role as a journalist and her status as the First Lady of California and her increasing
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Shriver created The Minerva Awards to honor and reward "remarkable California women" who have changed their communities, their state, their country and the world with their courage, wisdom and strength
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To focus on her role as First Lady of California, she returned in 2013 as a special anchor
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Shriver was in attendance at both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention, attending the first to watch her uncle Ted Kennedy speak, and the latter to watch her husband speak
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Shriver was in attendance at the Democratic National Convention when her uncle Ted Kennedy spoke
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Career landmark: First Lady or Partner of California (2003–2011).
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Shriver's father Sargent Shriver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and she became an advocate and fundraiser for Alzheimer's patient care and biomedical research
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And was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics
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Before his election as Governor of California
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She married Schwarzenegger on April 26, 1986, in Hyannis, Massachusetts, at St.
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Tom Brokaw introduced Maria to Austrian bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a charity tennis tournament being held at her mother's home
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Where she attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart high school and graduated in 1973, later attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, for two years, then transferring for a Bachelor of Arts degree in
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The second child and only daughter of politician Sargent Shriver and activist Eunice Kennedy
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Born 1955-11-06.
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