She opened up the Centres for Addictions for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
President Gerald Ford's wife was Betty Ford.Her name is Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Bloomer Ford.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford
Betty Ford
Betty Ford and Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, and Rosalynn Carter
Betty Ford
The American First Lady who famously founded an alcohol abuse treatment center was Betty Ford. Many famous people have been treated at the Betty Ford Center over the years.
Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, both did some fashion modeling when they were young.
Yes, Betty Ford wrote an autobiography titled "The Times of My Life" which was published in 1978. She also co-authored a book with Chris Chase in 1975 called "Betty: A Glad Awakening," which details her struggles with addiction and recovery.
She was - after Eleanore Roosevelt - the first politically active First Lady, very outspoken on a number of social issues - on which she held liberal views. She was pro-choice, a feminist, passionately supported equal rights for women, and was a strong supporter of better gun control measures. After an intervention by her family she not only faced her alcoholism, but went public with her struggles with alcohol and prescription medicine and became the founder of the still-famous Betty Ford clinic.
Betty Ford was a divorcee when she was First Lady, having had a previous husband before Gerald Ford. Frances Cleveland and Jackie Kennedy married again after they left the White House.