\n\u2022 \tShe has a son serving in the Army. Palin\u2019s son Track, 19, is expected to be deployed to Iraq this fall. \u201cHe\u2019s looking forward to it and we\u2019re proud of him,\u201d Palin\u2019s husband, Todd, tells PEOPLE. \u201cHe\u2019s grown up a lot in the past year.\u201d Says Palin: \u201cI\u2019m proud of him but I worry.\u201d
\n\u2022 \tHer husband Todd is part Eskimo. Together 20 years, Todd, also 44, and Sarah \u201calways wanted enough [kids] for a basketball team,\u201d she says. Todd is part Yupik Eskimo and helps run a family commercial fishing operation in addition to a full-time job as an oil company production operator. As a hobby, he races snowmobiles. He caught Sarah\u2019s eye in high school and they married in 1988. \u201cHe was the best basketball player I\u2019d ever seen,\u201d she says.
\n\u2022 \tShe\u2019s a former beauty queen. The 1987 University of Idaho graduate tells PEOPLE: \u201cI did the beauty pageants to earn money for college.\u201d Adding in a Vogue interview, \u201cThey made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d The former Miss Wasilla, however, prefers basketball and hunting and fishing to bathing suit and evening gown contests. \u201cI love the outdoors,\u201d she tells PEOPLE.
\n\u2022 \tShe has her own style. Palin may be comfortable in a fisherman\u2019s vest or hunting fatigues, but on the job as governor she wears Kazuo Kawasaki designer glasses and black Franco Sarto boots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"