“They were like, ‘The ex-wife wants to dowhat?'”

Emhoff and his ex-wife share two children together, Cole and Ella.

“He just has this quality where he can bring a room together,” he said.

Kamala Harris and Kerstin Emhoff

“I just thought, ‘Wow, that’s cool.

Don’t mess this up!'”

In 2019, Harris wrote a piece forElledescribing her blended family.

Kamala Harris

In it, she described Kerstin as “an incredible mother.”

She explained that the two women became “dear friends,” bonding overCole and Ella.

“We sometimes joke that our modern family is almost a little too functional.”

To Harris, Kerstin is not just a friend, but a member of the family.