(CNN) Louise Linton may be the most honest person in Washington. Ask her if she's ready to leave town after a rocky start and she'll say no -- she's just finished decorating her house.

Louise Linton, the wife of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, in the March issue of ELLE.

The wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is actually just like the rest of us, if we're to believe the secretary.

"She loves gadgets and has a bird feeder in the backyard," says Mnuchin in ELLE magazine , which profiles Linton for its March issue.

Mnuchin also says Linton has "humility," which is an essential point, since Linton first burst onto the public radar with an Instagram gaffe for the history books. Not only did she emerge from a government jet in designer clothes (whose labels she initially tagged in her photo) she got into a spat with a commenter who questioned whether such a display of wealth was appropriate. Linton was dragged through the social media mud. She's since apologized, but she still regrets how she handled it.

"I was so stupid. I wish I could take it back," Linton tells ELLE. "I wasn't thinking about who I am. I wasn't thinking, I am the wife of this person and thus I should act like the wife of this person."

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