Who is Kick Kennedy? Meet Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Eldest Daughter

Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy is 36 years old.

She was born in 1988 and is the eldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Emily Ruth Black.

Kick Kennedy has not commented on his father’s political activities, although other younger members of the Kennedy family have.

Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, his father’s cousin and grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, denounced Kennedy’s support for Trump, joining other members of the Kennedy family who called the move a “betrayal.”

“I’ve been saying this for over a year: RFKjr is for sale, he works for Trump. They get along great and love it,” he posted on X. “Kamala Harris is for the people: the easiest decision ever just got easier.”

She was named in honor of her great-aunt who died in a tragic plane crash.

Kennedy’s namesake, Kathleen “Kick” Agnes Cavendish, was born in 1920. She was the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy and the sister of President John F. Kennedy.

However, despite being born into a wealthy family, she had a wild side that would inadvertently lead to her death.

Just months after their marriage in 1944, her husband was tragically killed in combat. After his death, she began a relationship with Earl Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, a married man, People reported.

The couple had planned to fly to Paris to seek the father’s approval, but their 10-seater plane encountered severe turbulence and crashed in the mountains between Paris and Cannes.

Kick and Peter, who was piloting the plane, died instantly. She was only 28 years old. The AtlanticOnly his father, Joe Sr., attended his funeral.

She has five siblings, four of whom are half-siblings from her father’s second marriage to Mary Richardson.

She has one biological brother from her father’s first marriage to Emily Ruth Black: Robert “Bobby” Kennedy III, 39.

Her half-siblings include Conor Kennedy, 30; Kyra Kennedy, 29; William Finbar Kennedy, 27; and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, 23.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. married his third wife, Cheryl Hines, in 2014. They do not have any children together, although she has a 20-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

After her half-brother Conor was linked to Taylor Swift in 2012, Kick called the star “really sweet.”

Although the relationship was short-lived, Swift was spotted spending time with Conor and the Kennedy family at their estate in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, during the summer of 2012.

“She’s really sweet. It was a unique moment, really,” Kick Kennedy told the New York Post in 2014 when asked what it meant to the superstar to date his brother. “But we always have exciting things to do, exciting people to meet.”

Swift and Kennedy’s relationship reportedly ended in October 2012, although the fling may have inspired a few songs on her fourth studio album, “Red.”

His love life has remained rather discreet.

Kennedy previously dated Harper Simon, the son of musician Paul Simon, in 2014, E! News reported.

She then dated Matthew Mellon, a member of the wealthy Mellon family, before he died on the way to a drug treatment center in 2018, People reported.

This month, media reported that she was getting to know actor Ben Affleck following his very public divorce from Jennifer Lopez.

Page Six reported that the two were spotted spending time together at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, though Affleck’s rep told People that the two were not dating.

Rumors about Ben Affleck have led the internet to uncover a disturbing story that Kick Kennedy once shared about her father during an interview.

Following the Affleck news, people clamored to know more about the lesser-known member of the Kennedy clan. They resurfaced a 2012 profile of Kick Kennedy in City and countrysidewhich included a particularly crazy story about his father.

Kick Kennedy told the magazine that when she was 6, her father decapitated a dead whale they found on a beach near the Kennedy resort in Hyannis Port. She didn’t explain exactly why her father wanted the whale head, other than that he “likes to study animal skulls and skeletons.”

Problems arose when the family began making the five-hour drive from Hyannis to their home in New York with the whale head strapped to the roof of their minivan.

“Every time we would speed down the highway, whale juice would pour out the car windows, and it was the most unpleasant thing on the planet,” Kick said.

She said that to deal with leaking whale juice, “we all had plastic bags over our heads with holes for our mouths.”

“People on the highway were giving us the finger,” she added. “But that was normal, everyday behavior for us.”

Many found the story to be downright bizarre, but this is not the first time Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made headlines for his questionable behavior toward animals.

In 2014, he picked up a dead bear cub from the road and posed with it in a photo as a “prank.” The incident made local headlines.

Kennedy himself said he had been “picking up roadkill all his life.” NBC “I have a freezer full of them,” he said in August.

She has starred in several television shows over the years.

Kennedy has appeared in several one-off episodes of popular shows such as “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Gossip Girl” and “The Newsroom.”

She also starred in an off-Broadway play in 2014, which Today called a “modern retelling” of Sophocles’ “Antigone.”

“I’m really lucky,” Kennedy told The Associated Press at the time. “I grew up studying this part a lot and I hope I can do it justice. I couldn’t ask for a better story to tell right now. It’s just magical that it all came together.”

Since then, she has stepped away from the spotlight to focus on philanthropy.

Kennedy is a member of the Founders’ Circle of Well Beings Charity, an organization that focuses on “the well-being of animals, people and the planet,” according to the company’s mission statement.

Despite being a member of one of the country’s most famous and influential political families, Kennedy publicly stated that she did not want to rely on her pedigree to succeed.

“People ask me, ‘What’s it like to be a Kennedy?'” Kennedy said in a 2014 interview with the New York Post. “Maybe it’s just the temperature of the water, but I’m just like, ‘I have no idea.'”

“When I see my face or my name in the tabloids, I get a knot in my stomach. It’s just not me, it’s something that’s not real,” she continued.

She has a modest following of just 25,000 followers on Instagram.