Julianna Marguiles' "Good Wife" character was inspired by Silda Spitzer's 2008 television appearance beside her husband, then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, prompting the show's writers to wonder about the women behind disgraced and unfaithful politicians. Most recently, Huma Abedin looked wan and uncomfortable at her press conference with husband Anthony Weiner, who had been caught sexting again, even after an extensive public rehabilitation campaign.
Many who saw the presser wondered why Abedin, a powerful and successful figure in her own right, would stick by a man who had publicly humiliated her multiple times.