“Hoping That No One Would See Me”: Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Ashamed to Take His Favorite Car in Public After Ex-Wife Maria Shriver Spoiled It

The legendary bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has had an incredible life. Despite having multiple adversities in his path, he achieved massive success. Arnold married Maria Shriver in 1986. Notably, Maria is a descendant of the Kennedy family and a relative of former President John Kennedy.

Schwarzenegger excelled in all the roles he played as a professional. Be it bodybuilding, acting, or being a politician, Arnold aced all the roles. The legendary bodybuilder surprised everyone when he ran for the Governor of California and won. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to hide from people once for a funny reason

It is not a secret that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a car enthusiast. The superstar actor has had an incredible car collection ever since he became a successful bodybuilder. His fans would keep a track of the cars that he bought and let go of. In his book ‘Total Recall: My Unbelievably True-Life Story,’ he revealed an interesting incident involving one of his cars.

Arnold had gone all the way to Oregon to get his first sports utility Jeep Cherokee Chief. He made sure that the massive beast had a great sound system and a siren so that he could show off and scare other vehicles away.

The legend would drive the vehicle around the town very proudly until his wife Maria and her friend Bonnie Reiss plastered his Jeep with Kennedy ’80 posters and bumper stickers. Arnold, being a Republican, was scared that people would make fun of him for driving around with a democrat’s campaign stickers.

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Arnold was ashamed to drive around in his favorite car with all those posters. “But now when we drove around town, I’d sink a little lower in the seat, hoping that no one would see me. It was weird pulling up at the gym every day: like most of the people there, I was known as a Republican, and now here I was with the Teddy stickers,” he wrote.

Arnold’s political career

Arnold’s decision to enter politics came as a shocker to most, as he was already having a successful acting career. Arnold contested the governor election in 2003 in the gubernatorial election against the then-governor Gray Davis. The legendary bodybuilder won the elections in 2003.

The voters re-elected him, and he served his second term as the Governor of California from 2007 to 2011. Arnold could not contest for the third time due to the term limits imposed by the Constitution of California.

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Previously in 2016, he had revealed that he was interested in contesting the Presidential elections against Donald Trump. However, he could not contest the elections as he was not born in America.