"But in the past few months, her flinty ice-queen facade has begun to melt. Last February, her affair with married Texas cell-phone millionaire Shelby Bryan made tabloid news, wrecking her fifteen-year marriage to child psychiatrist David Shaffer and frequently reducing her to tears. While she and Bryan are now both separated from their spouses and happily together, friends say she's obsessed over her failed marriage and worried about the impact a nasty divorce will have on her children, a girl and a boy aged 11 and 13. As the city's gossip columnists circled -- feeding on rumors of Parisian trysts, gifts of fat emeralds, and even marriage proposals -- Wintour dug in her spiked Manolo Blahniks and declined to comment, directing all inquiries to her attorney, Edward Hayes."