Is Tulsi Gabbard Married? Here Are the Details of Her Personal Life

Although Tulsi Gabbard has been a member of Congress since 2013, it wasn't until her presidential run in 2020 that all of America got to know her. She never gained as much traction as her opponents, and eventually dropped out of the race, but it paved the way for a new political path. In 2022 Tulsi left the Democratic party and declared she was an Independent but two years later, she officially became a Republican.

After that, Tulsi threw herself wholeheartedly into supporting President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign which paid off after he was reelected. Tulsi was included in President Trump's list of cabinet picks as his choice for director of national intelligence. Now that she is standing on the biggest political stage of her career thus far, folks have begun looking into her personal life. Is Tulsi Gabbard married?

Gabbard has been married twice. The first time was in 2002, when she married Eduardo Tamayo. In 2003, she joined the Hawaii National Guard and was deployed for a 12-month tour of duty in Iraq. She rose up the ranks of the armed services, but that service apparently put a strain on her marriage; she got divorced in 2006 and cited "the stresses war places on military spouses and families" as the reason for the split.

Almost a decade after her first divorce, Gabbard married again, this time to freelance cinematographer and editor Abraham Williams. Williams was the son of her Honolulu office manager, and Gabbard was already serving in the House of Representatives when the two married. The couple wed in April 2015 in a "deeply spiritual, traditional ceremony that held great meaning for Abraham and I," according to Tulsi, who spoke with People the day after the nuptials.

When she was serving in Congress and running for president, Gabbard was doing so as a member of the Democratic Party. Since leaving Congress at the end of her presidential race, though, she's started to veer further and further right, especially when it comes to a wide variety of social issues.

In 2022, Gabbard was a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and she also has come out in favor of Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, which is known by its critic as the "Don't Say Gay Law." These issues are obviously deeply divisive, but Gabbard's position on gay marriage has been fairly longstanding. She has long opposed the advancement of civil rights and liberties for the LGBTQ community.

In a lengthy statement posted on social media, Gabbard explained her decision to leave the Democratic Party, essentially because it had become too "woke."

"I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism [and] actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms," she said.

She also claimed Democrats are "hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war."