A female agent formerly on the Secret Service detail for Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff moonlighted as a model and never passed her physical fitness test, sources told RealClearPolitics.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle emphasized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) during her tenure before she was forced to resign in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, RealClearPolitics reported. Under Cheatle’s leadership, one agent on Emhoff’s detail was retained after she failed to pass her physical fitness test multiple times, sources in the Secret Service community told the outlet. (RELATED: REPORT: Kimberly Cheatle Allegedly Planned To Destroy White House Cocaine, Agency Denies Claims)
The agent was featured in a magazine profile and hinted at her Secret Service position in a photo shoot labeled, “Undercover, But Never Underdressed,” the outlet reported. The agent describes herself as a “nationally published curve model, plus-size fashion and fitness influencer, and body-positive advocate” on social media, according to RealClearPolitics.
Standards lapsed at Secret Service during the Biden administration so much so that an agent–assigned to protect VP Harris’ family–not only never passed a physical fitness test but was allowed to moonlight as a plus-sized model, @SusanCrabtree exclusively reports. pic.twitter.com/Hxg4PEijXe
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 22, 2025
After the agent had failed her physical fitness test multiple times, she was placed in the Special Services Division, which handles support functions for the agency, sources in the Secret Service community told the outlet. Her new job handles the maintenance of the armored vehicle fleet and screens mail and packages coming into the White House complex, the sources added.
“The U.S. Secret Service is in full compliance with the Jan. 20, 2025 executive order and the agency discontinued all relevant programs and activities within the 60-day timeline,” U.S. Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told the Daily Caller in a statement.
“Director Curran’s leadership is centered on recruiting and retaining a workforce characterized by attention to detail, discipline, and commitment to our dual mission while also ensuring promotions and reassignments are merit based – the right person, for the right position, at the right time,” the statement continued. “Director Curran has challenged his leadership team to reaffirm a commitment to the highest professional standards to achieve operational excellence.”

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The agency reached 24% women agents and officers by the time Cheatle resigned, several Secret Service sources told RealClearPolitics.
RealClearPolitics also reported that during Cheatle’s time, agents in minority groups could enter chat rooms on the agency’s internal DEI website so they could discuss their struggles in the workplace.
Cheatle resigned in July after she testified in front of the House Oversight Committee about the near assassination attempt on Trump. She had served as director since 2022.
“The immediate reaction to her resignation is that it is overdue, she should have done this at least a week ago,” Speaker Mike Johnson said in a press conference following the resignation. “Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”