First picture of Barack Obama's first serious girlfriend

This is the woman who was Barack Obama’s first serious girlfriend, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.Alex McNear is a mother-of-one who runs a green energy company and lives in a $2million mansion in Sag Harbor, New York.She is also a Democrat who is understood to have voted for Mr Obama in the 2008 election.This week it emerged that she won the heart of the future president whilst at college, but until now the story of what happened next to her has not been told.Rather than moving into the White House she wed a rather less glamorous compensation prize - a Serbian boxer who once tried to rob $60,000 from a bank.Miss McNear married Bob Bozic in a ceremony which appalled her mother and brought a former vagrant and one time bookmaker into their upper middle class family.Mr Obama meanwhile romanced his second love Genevieve Cook before meeting Michelle Obama and marrying her - and becoming leader of the Free World.In her first comments since the story broke, Miss McNear told MailOnline: I am not giving any interviews.I did that one interview with David Maraniss for reasons I wont go into.I have nothing more to say about the whole subject.Asked if she would go on a date with Mr Obama if he got back in touch with her, Miss McNear said goodbye and hung up the phone.Miss McNear was named for the first time this week as the first person Mr Obama fell for in extracts from a forthcoming biopic about the president by author David Maraniss.She told how the two met at Occidental College in California and had a summer romance at the age of 20 in New York in 1981 when he transferred to Columbia to finish his studies. The story of what happened next however is equally extraordinary - how a woman who could have been the First Lady ended up with a prize fighter whose claim to fame is losing a 1973 bout with boxer Larry Holmes at Madison Square Garden.dailymail.com.

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First picture of Barack Obama's first serious girlfriend