Chelsea Clinton lives a charmed life, but don't be fooled: secretly, she's not attached to the oodles of money she and her hedge fund manager husband make each year, the former first daughter said in an interview published over the weekend.

 

Philanthropy（博爱，慈善） is her true passion, Clinton said, and that's why she permanently¹ left Wall Street to join the Clinton Foundation, which she runs with her parents, former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.

 

'I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't,' Clinton told The Telegraph. 'That wasn't the metric（度量标准） of success I wanted in my life.'

 

Despite Chelsea's self-proclaimed disinterest in money-making, a report last week surfaced that she was paid $600,000 by NBC last year to do a smattering of reporting.

 

It is not uncommon² for well-known anchors to earn multiple millions per year, but Clinton's reported annual salary is high for the frequency of her segments.

 

By comparison, her salary is higher than both of the last two editors of the New York Times.

 

The paycheck from her NBC contract has helped Chelsea and her husband Marc Mezvinsky buy a $10.5 million apartment next to New York's Madison Square Park last spring.

 

Politico said at the time of its report that the 34-year-old, who is expecting her first child later this year, is now on a month-to-month contract that would ease her departure should her mother decide to run for president in 2016.

 

It later came to light that Clinton was still being paid $50,000 a month by NBC despite the fact that she hasn't been featured since January.

 

NBC News has aired two stories by Chelsea Clinton so far in 2014, both on education programs targeting the underprivileged（贫困的） that were shown on Nightly News in January.

 

The news network told the Associated Press that it does expect two completed stories to air soon, however, and two others are in the works.

 

NBC reportedly wanted to avoid the appearance of a conflict by having her on the air around the time Hillary Clinton was doing a round of media interviews about her new book Hard Choices.

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