Mark Zuckerberg is a famous American businessman, one of the youngest billionaires of our time. The personality and flamboyant financial success of the founder of Facebook certainly piques the interest of millions around the world. As surprising and extraordinary as his career history is, the choice of his life partner is just as unusual. With the ability to get hold of almost any woman, Zuckerberg has remained faithful to his student love for many years.
Mark Zuckerberg's wedding
Mark Zuckerberg has been in a relationship with Priscilla Chan for more than 15 years (since 2003), and on May 19, 2012 they got married. The billionaire's wedding took place in the backyard of their home in Palo Alto, California. The ceremony was attended by about 100 guests from among relatives and close friends, for whom everything that happened was a surprise. The future spouses initially invited everyone to the celebration of Priscilla's graduation from the University of California.
For her most important day, the bride opted for a $ 4,700 ivory wedding dress designed by Claire Pettibon. The official description with which the outfit went on sale stated that the dress is completely satin lining, adorned with intricate floral embroidery and matte sequins, and also has a transparent back and a long train. The design of his wife's wedding ring, decorated with a ruby, was personally developed by Zuckerberg.
The wedding buffet was entrusted to two of the spouses' favorite diners - Fuki Sushi and Palo Alto Sol. The famous musician Billie Joe Armstrong, a member of the Green Day's band, also performed at the celebration.
The whole world learned about the wedding when Zuckerberg added his new marital status to his personal Facebook page. The couple met at a student party in 2003 while they were both attending Harvard University. It's funny that the place of the first meeting was the queue for the toilet. After the beginning of the romance, Priscilla and Mark dated for 9 years before deciding to legalize their relationship. Each wedding anniversary, the couple try to travel, and they spent their honeymoon in 2012 in Italy.
Biography of Priscilla Chan
Priscilla was born on February 24, 1985 in Baintree, Massachusetts, and grew up in the suburbs of Boston. She has Chinese roots, and Chan's parents fled to the United States from Vietnam. She has two younger sisters.
After graduating from high school in 2003, Priscilla entered Harvard University, where she studied biology and Spanish. Even at school, she was distinguished by outstanding mental abilities, for which her classmates awarded her the honorary title of "Genius of the class". Chan graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 2007. She became the first college graduate in her family.
Then the girl moved to the California city of San Jose, where she worked as a science teacher at the private school Harker School for about a year. In 2008, Priscilla entered medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and graduated in 2012, just before her wedding to Mark Zuckerberg. The next stage of her training - in pediatric residency - Chan completed in 2015 and got a job as a pediatrician at a general hospital in San Francisco.
Zuckerberg left Harvard in his sophomore year and moved to California. For about 4 years, she and Priscilla lived 3,000 miles apart. Journalists who studied the biography of a businessman argue that these years the future spouses did not maintain a relationship, and Mark had other hobbies and novels. But everything fell into place with Priscilla's move to California.
Zuckerberg's family life
Traditionally, in the summer of 2015, Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that he and his wife were expecting a baby. At the same time, the businessman spoke frankly about the difficulties they had to go through. According to him, 2 years before this pregnancy, Priscilla had 3 miscarriages. Zuckerberg admitted that every time he felt the collapse of his hopes, and without being able to share with someone disappointment and pain. After all, it is not customary in society to discuss miscarriages. People are reluctant to talk about it for fear of sounding sick or careless. Thus, Mark called the suffered loss a "lonely experience."
Fortunately, the new pregnancy ended well, and on December 1, 2015, the firstborn of the spouses, daughter Maxim (Max), was born. Two years later, at the end of August 2017, her younger sister Augusta was born. A happy father often writes about his children on Facebook, shares important events from their lives and achievements. For example, in January 2018, he said that Max went to kindergarten for the first time.
Charitable activities of the spouses
As the wife of one of the richest men in the world, Priscilla actively supports her husband's charitable work. The spouses chose healthcare and education as their priority areas. For 2015, their total donations were $ 320 million. In addition, in 2015, Chan took over as CEO of a nonprofit private school in Palo Alto, which provides free tuition for low-income families.
Priscilla is also widely known in connection with a charity project developed in conjunction with her husband. It was named the "Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative" and officially launched on the birthday of the spouses' eldest daughter, December 1.
The project is a limited liability company to which Zuckerberg and his wife plan to gradually transfer 99% of all Facebook shares. The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative supports biomedical research aimed at finding treatments for incurable diseases. In addition, material support is provided to various startups in the field of education, software, including those outside the United States.
It is believed that Priscilla had a huge impact on her husband's charitable work. After all, the goals that the spouses have chosen as priority ones are closely related precisely to her personal past - the education of a teacher and a doctor.
This couple is definitely admired and respected all over the world. Possessing huge financial capabilities, they are alien to the passion for luxury, wealth, thoughtless burning of life. They strive to make the world a better place and are even ready to give practically all of their personal fortune for good purposes.
