Donald Trump Elected arsenic President, Defeats Democratic Candidate Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris’ statesmanlike bid whitethorn not person ended successful victory.
But contempt her nonaccomplishment to projected President-elect Donald Trump, the communicative of Harris and her family—including her hubby Doug Emhoff and stepchildren Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff—captured the hearts of many.
And though she won’t beryllium president, she inactive holds a peculiar title: “Momala.”
“It is 1 of my favourite titles, being Momala,” she told People in 2023. “It’s really overmuch much of a communal acquisition than I deliberation we really speech about, which is co-parenting. We don’t truly usage the word stepparent but participating successful raising a kid that you emotion due to the fact that that kid is your ain successful each mode that is important. So it’s a sanction the kids gave me, and I deterioration it proudly.”
She continued, “And I consciousness precise blessed that we besides person a precise modern family, successful that we each instrumentality joyousness successful the maturation of our household and the mode we enactment each other.”
But conscionable who are Cole and Ella? Here’s everything to know.
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Who are Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff’s parents?
While Cole and Emma telephone Harris their “Momala,” they were calved to Doug and his ex-wife Kerstin Emhoff. And though the brace divided successful 2008 aft 16 years together, the Emhoffs and Harris prioritize keeping their household portion strong.
"We person our household by blood, and past we person our household by love, and I person both, and I see it to beryllium a existent blessing,” Harris told Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper successful October. “We person a precise modern family. My husband's ex-wife is simply a person of mine."
How aged are Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff?
Cole—named aft jazz instrumentalist John Coltrane—is the eldest Emhoff kid astatine 30. He graduated from Colorado College successful 2017 with a grade successful psychology.
Ella, who was starting precocious schoolhouse erstwhile Harris entered their lives, is 25. She graduated from NYC’s Parsons School of Design successful 2021 wherever she studied good arts with a absorption successful apparel and textiles.
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What bash Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff bash for work?
After graduating from college, Cole worked astatine William Morris Endeavor endowment agency, per his since-deleted LinkedIn profile, earlier becoming an enforcement adjunct astatine Plan B Entertainment, Brad Pitt's accumulation company. Also co-founded by Jennifer Aniston, Kristin Hahn and the precocious Brad Grey, Plan B Entertainment was down films specified arsenic The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
Ella has likewise enactment her originative talents to bully use.
Much of the 25-year-old’s societal media is dedicated to her impressive knit designs—showcasing everything from sweaters and hats to self-portraits and framed pieces. Back successful 2021, Ella launched a constricted postulation of knitwear with Batsheva Hay, and successful January 2022 she announced she’d beryllium continuing to nutrient knitwear nether her ain name.
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"I'm a one-woman show," the creator told Women’s Wear Daily astatine the time. "It's been an utmost labour of love."
And that’s not all. Ella is besides a model, having been signed by IMG Models Worldwide successful 2021—the aforesaid bureau that represents models specified arsenic Gigi Hadid, Gisele Bündchen and Heidi Klum.
Since then, she’s modeled for brands specified arsenic Balenciaga, posed for Vanity Fair and walked successful shows for Miu Miu, Proenza and more.
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Are Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff dating anyone?
For his part, Cole tied the knot with his longtime woman Greenley Littlejohn in Oct. 2023. And portion Cole and Greenley were each walked down the aisle by their mothers, Harris was besides fixed a peculiar relation for the ceremony: officiant.
“It meant truthful overmuch for truthful galore reasons,” Harris told People of the moment. “It was truthful fantastic that the kids asked maine to bash it. For us, we deliberation of matrimony arsenic being not conscionable betwixt these 2 people, but the coming unneurotic of families. So it was precise overmuch with that tone that we each participated.”
Ella, meanwhile, antecedently dated GQ writer Sam Hine, having confirmed the narration to Vanity Fair in the summertime of 2021.
While the brace often attended manner events and reddish carpets together, they reportedly parted ways successful 2023.
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What person Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff said astir Kamala Harris?
Both of the Emhoff kids person been highly supportive of their Momala’s governmental career.
On gathering Harris for the archetypal time, Ella told Glamour, “It felt similar we had known each different forever. And I deliberation what was important was getting to cognize her arsenic a idiosyncratic first—a idiosyncratic earlier a politician.”
It was a sentiment shared by her brother. “I met her and we had this astonishing dinner,” Cole told the outlet. “And I realized like, ‘Oh, my God, Doug has met idiosyncratic who is wholly unsocial and wholly special.’ I deliberation for each of us, it was emotion astatine archetypal sight.”
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And their dada is surely inactive feeling that aforesaid bliss.
"Doug and Kamala unneurotic are similar astir vomit-inducingly cute and coupley," Cole admitted to Vanity Fair successful 2021. "I'm like, When is this going to deterioration off?"
Not immoderate clip soon, according to Ella.
"It's truthful insane. It's similar the honeymoon signifier forever," she noted. "Like, the remainder of the satellite gets to spot it connected societal media, but we unrecorded that."
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