In other words, his kids didn’t make him do it.

Or there was that time whenTed Cruzwas running againstDonald Trump, and Trump went after Heidi’s looks.

Heidi Cruz made gossip column headlines, then, too (viaDaily Beast).

Ted and Heidi Cruz

Other than that, Heidi, and her marriage to senator Ted Cruz, stay relatively under the radar.

The Republican senator, you’re familiar with.

But who are Ted and Heidi as a couple?

Ted and Heidi Cruz campaign event

Yes, they’re both republicans.

Heidi toldThe Atlanticthat she thought Ted was “super-smart” and like a “1950s movie star.”

Ted you might have gotten this idea already is more of a Johnny English than a James Bond.

Ted and Heidi Cruz speak

For their first dinner date, the two went to a bar maybe not-so-aptly named “Bitter End.”

Ted got straight to it.

Also Ted’s idea?

To move to Texas.

No big deal, apparently.

And yet, money hasn’t always led to happiness for Ted and Heidi.

That’s how she described the incident toThe Atlantic.

Ted picked her up at a police station later.

An officer had taken her in, thinking that Heidi might be a “danger to herself.”

Funny enough, it was that incident, a low among lows, which led to a high.