Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Biographer Gives Insight Into Her Relationship With John F. Kennedy Jr. (Exclusive)

author Elizabeth Beller offers up new insight on the couple's highly-publicized marriage and the effect it had on Bessette-Kennedy -- a previously unknown publicist.

Beller says Bessette-Kennedy -- who ultimately began dating Kennedy Jr. in 1994 -- had a zest for life outside of her relationship and would spend her time with friends doing everything from sightseeing to visiting museums and checking out plays. Her life flipped completely upside down, however, when she went public with Kennedy Jr. and became a tabloid target, photographed and written about at all hours of the day.

Bessette-Kennedy went from private citizen in a city of millions to having public disputes with her partner photographed, videotaped and slapped on the front page of publications around the world and shared on broadcast news. For that reason, Beller says JFK Jr. was cautious -- at least at the start of his relationship with Bessette-Kennedy -- as he knew what could become of her life.

Even after their 1996 wedding, however, Beller says Bessette-Kennedy was under extreme societal pressure -- which bled into her own mindset -- to become a Kennedy family member in the way that the public expected her to, complete with a physical transformation she otherwise may not have gone through with.

"It's this pressure to conform. Even though I don't think John was putting that pressure on her, and certainly not the Kennedys, I think it was just she was thinking, 'What can I do?' I think she was surprised and kind of hurt by how quite odious the tabloids were to her," Beller adds.

"She certainly was vilified," says Beller of Bessette-Kennedy being blamed for the crash. She adds that it was another person publicly stating they believed Bessette-Kennedy"picked a fight" with her husband on the plane that partially inspired her to write the book.

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