Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, welcomed their first child together in 2017 before marrying in 2019. Here's everything to know about Pete Hegseth's wife.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer Rauchet has stood by her man through a dizzying array of scandals: cheating, allegations of abuse and now glaring national security breaches. The former Fox News producer is making headlines of her own this week after it was reported she was part of a Signal group chat discussing upcoming strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen.

Then, further allegations about Trump’s defence pick were made public. In a furious email, sent around the time of Mr Hegseth’s second divorce, his own mother, Penelope, called him an “abuser of women” and accused him of “lying, cheating, sleeping around and using women for his own power and ego”.