Romance didn’t blossom due to McCain’s short attention spans
Romance didn’t blossom due to McCain’s short attention spans
Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, a former Brazilian beauty queen and dancer is making headlines across Brazil after being revealed as the alleged lover of U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain 51 years ago.
Maria says she is the woman McCain fondly described, though never named, in his 1999 best-selling book “Faith of My Fathers.”
In the book, McCain recalled wild times in Rio where he and his Annapolis shipmates “indulged in the vices sailors are infamous for” and writes of meeting a Brazilian woman he doesn’t identify, as a young Navy sailor in Rio de Janeiro when the destroyer USS Hunt docked in the city for a week in 1957. McCain was stationed on the ship.
“I met and began a romance with a Brazilian fashion model, and gloried in the envy of my friends,” wrote McCain. “I spent every free moment with her” for the rest of the eight-day stay in Rio.
McCain wrote that he returned to Rio after the short stay and saw her again, but that the romance didn’t blossom for long because of “youthful impatience and short attention spans.”
The former model was tracked down by Brazil’s O Globo newspaper and said Saturday, “He was a lovely person and loved to go out with me. I called him ‘John’ but he was my dear and my coconut dessert.
“We met because I used to have lunch near the docks,” Teixeira told the newspaper Extra. “He is so cute. But I never imagined he would write about me that was a surprise.”
Maria Gracinda Teixeira
“He was such a good kisser that I had to purchase a book which taught me how to kiss to keep up with him.”
Asked about John in bed, Gracinda says, “Of course we had sex…he was not only good at kissing but good at everything.”
If McCain wins the presidency, the Brazilian promises to send him a telegram of congratulations “from his great love in Brazil.”