BOSTON, Nov. 25 Eunice Kennedy Shriver is hospitalized in Boston with an undisclosed illness, The Boston Globe reported Sunday.
Shriver, 86, the sister of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late President John F. Kennedy, was reported in fair condition at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was admitted Nov. 18.
Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics in 1968, has had a number of health problems lately, said Daniel Zingale, chief of staff for her daughter, Maria.
"But she has bounced back many times, and I fully expect that to be the case now," Zingale told the Globe Saturday night.
Maria Shriver, and her husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, are in Massachusetts as part of a long-planned Thanksgiving holiday with the their family, Zingale said.
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