Jill Biden was a teenager working as the Biden family babysitter when she started dating then-Sen. Joe Biden.
Rating: False
A long-standing social media rumor claims that former U.S. first lady Jill Biden was a teenager working as a babysitter for former President Joe Biden's children when they started dating.
For instance, a December 2024 post on X (archived) stated, "Jill was and still is Joe Biden's babysitter." Similarly, in February 2025, one user asked, "Was that when she was babysitting for Joe's first wife?"
(X user @JonasNight12077)
Other posts explicitly claimed that Jill was a teenager when she met Joe. One X user wrote, "Remember when they said this was a conspiracy theory? That he met her in her 30's?! Yeah another one proven true. Joe Biden is a pedo. He was attracted to his 15 year old babysitter, Jill. Sick freak." Another post alleged that Jill Biden first met Joe Biden "when she was a teenage girl babysitting his children."
In short, the claim that Jill Biden was a teenage babysitter for Joe Biden's children when they started dating is false. The couple met in 1975, after the death of Joe Biden's first wife, when Jill was in her mid-20s.
We previously fact-checked this claim in 2021 when similar false rumors spread on social media.
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