According to Buzzfeed, Maddow came out publicly at the age of 17 via her school newspaper at Stanford. "I decided I was going to come out in a very confrontational way," Maddow wrote in a Newsweek article in 2012. "So a friend who was coming out at the same time and I did and interview with the student newspaper about being the only two gay freshman on campus." This young sense of pride has manifested into Maddow serving as the only openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the U.S. (via Business Insider).
As for her dating life, it would appear that Maddow has been with the same woman since 1999. According to Business Insider, the news anchor met her future girlfriend during a time in her life in which she was working a variety of odd jobs while working on her college doctoral dissertation. Susan Mikula, an artist and photographer, had been looking for someone to clean her yard and ultimately hired Maddow for the job. Maddow says their meeting was love at first sight. "Bluebirds and comets and stars. It was absolutely a hundred percent clear," she told The New Yorker. Maddow joked that their meeting was so dramatic and electric that, "It was very Desperate Housewives" (via People).
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