Emhoff deals with persistent pain, thanks to a spinal condition she was born with.
“I was born with a tethered spine,” Emhoff wrote in her Stories (viaNewsweek).
“[I] was in and out of doctors and PT for most of my adolescence.

Got lower back surgery, grew a million inches, and now deal with chronic pain.”
This upended Emhoff’s life even more.
Suddenly, she could no longer poke her head out the door without Secret Service agents following her around.

This, too, is Emhoff’s reality.
The perpetrator, Harry Heymann, confronted Emhoff’s Secret Service detail before he started vandalizing their vehicles.
A Secret Service spokesperson later addressed the incident, explaining that Heymann was arrested on the scene.

“Tattoos on women are generally disgusting,” right-wing political commentator Richard Hanania wrote onX, formerly Twitter.
He alsocalledEmhoff “the nightmare scenario for most people with a daughter.”
… President Trump’s family would never appear at a national Republican Convention dressed like Emhoff has."