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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has begun the process of divorcing her husband Bryon following bombshell revelations earlier this year that he engaged in a lurid secret life of cross-dressing and chatting online with fetish models, the former South Dakota governor’s mother has claimed.

“It has been difficult, but we knew this was coming, that they were going to get divorced,” Corinne Arnold told the Daily Mail at her home that adjoins the ranch where her daughter and Bryon lived and raised three children.

The outlet reported in late March that Bryon Noem chatted up women from the so-called “bimbofication” fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a “Barbie doll”-like appearance — and even indulged in the trend himself.