Lookalike Kennedy cousins Maria Shriver, Caroline Kennedy and Sydney McKelvy reunited in New York this week after 20 months aside.
The trio, born inside three years of one another and now of their 60s, grew up collectively as a part of the sprawling Kennedy dynasty and stay extraordinarily shut, with Maria describing their relationship as extra like ‘sisters’.
With their rigorously coiffed highlighted hair, matching megawatt smiles and easy black tops, Maria, 66, Sydney, 65, and Caroline, 63, actually may have handed for siblings as they spent the evening catching up in a comfortable nook of an upmarket New York eatery earlier this week.
A photograph of the long-awaited household get-together was shared by Maria on Instagram yesterday.
Household reunion: Lookalike Kennedy cousins (from left-right) Sydney McKelvy, Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver reunited in New York this week after 18 months aside
Lifelong bond: The trio, born inside three years of one another and now of their 60s, grew up collectively as a part of the sprawling Kennedy dynasty and stay extraordinarily shut. Pictured from left-right: Maria, Courtney Kennedy (their cousin), Caroline, and Sydney in 1969
Sprawling brood: Joseph P. Kennedy with 17 of his grandchildren in 1961. Entrance row, l-r: Sydney Lawford, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Kennedy, Maria Shriver, Courtney and Mary Kerry Kennedy. Center row, Timothy Shriver, Victoria Lawford, Kara Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Robert Shriver and Kathleen Kennedy holding John F. Kennedy Jr.. Again row, Joseph Kennedy, David Kennedy
‘These two! They’re all the things to me,’ she wrote. ‘Final evening, right here within the Massive Apple, I received to interrupt bread and break into laughter with my two cousins, @sydneylmck and @amb_kennedy.
‘I by no means had a sister, however these two have made up for that. I’ve recognized them my total life. I hadn’t seen them since earlier than covid — our longest stretch not seeing each other.
‘How wonderful to be reunited! To not skip a beat. I left feeling full, feeling blessed, and hopeful that we are going to collect once more quickly.
‘I hope you may have individuals in your life the place you’ll be able to choose up proper the place you left up, who make you’re feeling seen and secure, who love you it doesn’t matter what you order or what you eat, who simply love the heck out of you! Nothing else on life comes shut!’
Maria, the ex-wife of Hollywood motion star-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the fifth of 9 kids of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald, and Sargent Shriver, a US Ambassador to France and onetime Vice Presidential nominee.
Childhood reminiscences: Joseph P. Kennedy with 17 grandchildren in 1964, the yr after the demise of his son, John F. Kennedy. Entrance row, l-r: Christopher Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Jr., Christopher Lawford, Sydney Lawford, Robin Lawford. Center row: Courtney Kennedy, Timmy Shriver, William Smith, Kara Kennedy, Mr. Kennedy holding Mark Shriver, Victoria Lawford, Mary Kerry Kennedy. Again row, Michael Kennedy, Stephen Smith, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Robert Shriver and Maria Shriver
Household milestones: Caroline (left) and Maria (proper) have been bridesmaids on the wedding ceremony of their cousin, Courtney Kennedy, in 1980
By one another’s sides: When Caroline and Maria married their respective companions in 1986, they served as one another’s maid of honor. Pictured, Maria on her wedding ceremony day to Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1986. Her bridesmaids additionally included her cousins Sydney and Courtney
Though she had 4 brothers – one older and three youthful – she spent a lot of her childhood within the firm of her feminine cousins, horse driving and holidaying on the Kennedy compound in Cape Cod.
A have a look at the Kennedy household picture album reveals Maria attending glittering capabilities, watching the tennis and absorbing the solar with an ever-changing line-up of kinfolk, though Caroline, the one surviving little one of John F. Kennedy and his spouse, Jacqueline, seems most often.
One significantly candy {photograph} reveals JFK aboard the Honey Fitz off Cape Cod along with his younger daughter and Maria.
Their bond stays unbreakable. When Caroline and Maria married their respective companions in 1986, they served as one another’s maid of honor.
Political heavyweights: Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver and Oprah Winfrey marketing campaign for Barack Obama in 2008
Celebration: Maria, Sydney and Caroline in a photograph marking Caroline’s sixtieth birthday
Emotional help: Maria (left) and Caroline (proper) accompany their cousin Courtney Kennedy Hill following the funeral service for her daughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, in August 2019
Sydney, daughter of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sixth of the Kennedy kids, and English actor Peter Lawford, was bridesmaid at each.
Caroline additionally rallied round Maria following her divorce from Schwarzenegger, and reportedly warned her cousin off towards a rumored reconciliation.
Caroline and Maria stood by their cousin Courtney Kennedy Hill’s aspect as she attended the funeral of her daughter Saoirse Roisin Hill, who died on the Kennedy compound in 2019.
Writing on the time, Maria stated she was ‘livid at God’ for taking her cousin’s ‘solely little one away’.