Anthony Weiner may be a lean, mean dating machine, but he's not real chatty about his hottie from Hillary Clinton's campaign.
A day after the bachelor congressman finally admitted he was dating Clinton's "body woman" aide, Huma Abedin, Weiner was eager to talk about national security, his mayoral ambitions - anything but his love life.
"I'd like to talk about it as little additionally as possible," Weiner said during a meeting with the Daily News Editorial Board Wednesday. It was a mild protest, delivered with a sheepish grin.
His admission dredged up old reports that Weiner, 43, dated several beauties over the years, including ABC reporter Gigi Stone, New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead and AOL cybermodel Alli Joseph.
A day after the bachelor congressman finally admitted he was dating Clinton's "body woman" aide, Huma Abedin, Weiner was eager to talk about national security, his mayoral ambitions - anything but his love life
"Soon there will be pictures of me emerging from behind a tree," Weiner joked about his no-longer-private personal life.
After all, a girlfriend who recently graced a Vogue photo spread is a nice catch for a skinny guy from Brooklyn, who was embarrassed in a 2001 Vanity Fair article that described him posing as an auto parts salesman while trying to hook up with a young Capitol Hill staffer at a Washington bar.
After all, a girlfriend who recently graced a Vogue photo spread is a nice catch for a skinny guy from Brooklyn.
Weiner turned serious when asked if he was taking a political risk dating Abedin, a Michigan-born Muslim who grew up in Saudi Arabia.
"I'm certain that the relationship was not the product of a political calculation," he said.
In the past, the Congressman has been linked to such hotties as cybermodel Alli Joseph...
Weiner quickly added that he remained a staunch critic of the Saudis and quipped, "Given how hard I've worked for Hillary, I think I might be ambassador to Saudi [Arabia] in the Obama administration."
Then realizing the gaffe, Weiner corrected himself and predicted Clinton - who he has campaigned for - would win the nomination over Barack Obama.
What does Clinton think of him romancing her right-hand woman?
"Haven't talked to her about it," Weiner replied.
Nor would Weiner say what his Jewish mom thinks of his stunning sweetheart. "It's not something I want to talk about," he said.
... an also impressive catch for someone friends describe as a 'baby-faced dork who was never all that smooth with women.'
A friend of the couple said Weiner and the 32-year-old Abedin are something special.
"They're just two people that you would never imagine together but they're perfect together," said the friend, who asked not to be named. "It lends credence to the old saying that opposites attract."
Another one of Weiner's beauties was former NY1 reporter (now with ABC) Gigi Stone (right, with Karen Rosenfeld on the left, and Heidi Snow).
There was no comment from Abedin, the daughter of an Indian expert on Islam and a Pakistani professor mother.
Weiner pals who have known him since he arrived in Washington a decade ago recall him as a "baby-faced dork who was never all that smooth with women."
They said he has been under "pressure" to settle down for some time.
"He is at that age when you decide if you want a wife or not," one friend said. "And with a Jewish mother, that was even more pressure."
With Kenneth R. Bazinet, Edgar Sandoval and Kirsten Danis
