Multiple media outlets report that Elizabeth Edwards opened the store called Red Window in downtown Chapel Hill on Saturday. Edwards says the store will be similar to The Red Door, a charity store her mother managed in Japan.
John Edwards also attended the opening.
He confessed last year to an affair with Rielle Hunter, a videographer on his 2008 presidential campaign. Elizabeth Edwards says she's trying to ignore tabloid reports that her husband fathered Hunter's child.
A federal grand jury is investigating whether the candidate's campaign funds were illegally paid to Hunter to keep quiet about the affair.