White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted photos to Instagram this week, featuring herself on Halloween along with her husband, Nicholas Riccio, and their 16-month-old child. The images featured the family both outside the White House and outside the Naval Observatory, which is the residence of the vice president.
According to The Daily Beast, questions have been raised about whether filters were applied to the face of Leavitt’s husband, who is more than 30 years her senior.
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“The airbrushing of your hubs face to make him appear younger was the trick,” one Instagram user wrote, per the Beast, of the photos.
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	“Karoline, Awesome picture but my friends noticed something: The guy on the left seems to have only his face photoshopped. His hands look like 60+ years old,” another user said of the photos. “What happened?”
Many others joked that the press secretary’s husband resembled her father.
Karoline Leavitt’s Halloween Instagram post drew questions about the appearance of her husband, who is 32 years her senior. https://t.co/ervM0uJvHx
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 4, 2025
This follows Leavitt, during the presidential visit to Asia this week, posting her personal haul of Korean skincare products, and The Cut, among other outlets, reporting that she could have bought most of that at Ulta, without even leaving the country.
There were other amused reactions on social media to Leavitt’s Halloween photo album:
KAROLINE LEAVITT LOSES MIND WHAT LIE 4 HALLOWEEN.. how fitting bcuz of her many lies!! @PressSec @whca @cspanwj @dpakman https://t.co/rxnUsLYo1c via @YouTube
— LovelyMsNet (@LovelyMsNet) November 2, 2025
nice of grandpa to join in on Trick or Treating
— EJW (@TedWilcox7) November 4, 2025
It looks like Karoline Leavitt treated a Halloween photo of her hubby, Nicholas Riccio, to some editing tricks in a vain attempt to make him look younger.https://t.co/FknNUzHyK2
— Nicki Swift (@NickiSwiftCeleb) November 3, 2025
3️⃣2️⃣ years https://t.co/4zMg9Qop2d pic.twitter.com/CFYgISEfOa
— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) November 4, 2025
Just think, when he was 35 years old she was in diapers and when she reaches 35, he’ll be wearing diapers.
Kinda beautiful if you really think about it. pic.twitter.com/2OYHIgWd1b
— Rage against the dying of the light 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@jdullea) November 4, 2025
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