Teresa Heinz Kerry

BOSTON — A person in close contact with the family says Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was hospitalized after showing symptoms consistent with a seizure.

The person was not authorized to speak publicly about her condition and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A spokesman for John Kerry says the 74-year-old Heinz Kerry was flown Sunday night to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island stabilized her. The secretary of state was with his wife as an ambulance transported her to the island hospital and also during her transfer to the Boston facility.

A spokesman for Nantucket Cottage Hospital said Heinz Kerry arrived in critical condition, but doctors were able to stabilize her.

Heinz Kerry is the widow of former U.S. Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. She married John Kerry in 1995.

Doctors treated Heinz Kerry for breast cancer in late 2009.

She underwent lumpectomies on both breasts. In November 2009, she had another pair of lumpectomies.