Check out this flattering profile of Teresa Heinz Kerry . She's definitely not from the cookie-cutter mold. She's unconventional and says what's on her mind.

On the trail, she alludes to her background, raised under a repressive dictatorship in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and schooled in racially segregated South Africa.

Mrs. Kerry, 65, admits she is hardly the stereotypical political wife, but said if voters couldn't accept her, she would have heard about it by now. She can be outspoken, disclosing her Botox injections, her prenuptial agreement with Kerry and the fact that he was in the bathroom when he got word of his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.

She was a registered Republican and voted for former President George Bush, but not his son, the current president.

One of her frequent comments:

'I want to know why it is when men express an opinion its fine. When women express an opinion they are considered to be opinionated."'