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Quick Info Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico Age: 53 Years Father: Ray Snchez We came from nothing. I used to sleep in the back of my grandmothers car when she would go clean houses, and Ive been fortunate enough to have a career.

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Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Age: 53 Years

Father: Ray Sánchez

Lauren Sanchez

Lauren Sanchez

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lauren Sánchez

  • Lauren Sánchez is a Mexican-American news anchor, businesswoman, Hollywood actress, and media person who is best known for appearing in Barbara Walters’ The View, FOX 11’s Good Day LA and Ten O’clock News, CNN’s Larry King Live, Joy Behar: Say Anything!, and HLN’s Showbiz Tonight. Lauren has often made the headlines for being in a relationship with Jeff Bezos, the owner of the e-commerce giant Amazon. She again came into the limelight in May 2023 after she got engaged to Jeff.
  • According to Lauren, her family underwent a financial crisis when she was a child. She talked about it in an interview and said,

    We came from nothing. I used to sleep in the back of my grandmother’s car when she would go clean houses, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have a career.”

  • In the late 1980s, Lauren was one of the contenders at the Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Beauty pageant. Lauren's photo taken during the Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Beauty pageant

    Lauren’s photo taken during the Miss Hawaiian Tropic International Beauty pageant

  • Lauren underwent a helicopter flying course while studying at the University of Southern California.
  • After completing college, Lauren was employed as a desk assistant at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles.
  • After leaving her job at KCOP-TV, Lauren moved to Phoenix, where she was hired as an anchor and a news reporter by KTVK-TV.
  • She began working at a syndicated news broadcasting news magazine titled Extra in 1997. She worked there as a weekend anchor/correspondent till 2000. A still from Lauren's presentation on rugby

    A still from Lauren’s presentation on rugby

  • She was later hired as a news correspondent by the Fox Sports Network (FSN) for its sports magazine Going Deep. Thereafter, she started working as an entertainment reporter at The Best Damn Sports Show Period, which aired on FSN. She got nominated for an Emmy Award while working at the FSN. A photo of Lauren taken as the anchor of the Best Damn Sports Show Period

    A photo of Lauren taken as the anchor of the Best Damn Sports Show Period

  • She was re-employed by KCOP-TV in Los Angeles in 1999. While working there as an anchor, she received an Emmy Award.
  • She participated in the nationwide hosting competition in February 2002 in the second season of The View. In the show, she ended up as a runner-up.
  • Lauren Sánchez hosted the first season of a dance reality TV show titled So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) in 2005. She, however, refused to host the show’s second season as she was pregnant.
  • In 2009, she was re-hired by Extra, where she worked there as a weekend anchor and special correspondent. Lauren's photo taken on the sets of Extra

    Lauren’s photo taken on the sets of Extra

  • Apart from news anchoring, Lauren has acted in several Hollywood films and TV series including Babylon 5 (1997), Fight Club (1999), Girlfriends (2001), Hollywood Homicide (2003), Fantastic Four (2005), The Longest Yard (2005), The Agency (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), White House Down (2013), Rake (2014), and Ted 2 (2015)
  • Her name was listed in People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful” 2010 issue.
  • After passing rigorous flying tests, Lauren earned her helicopter pilot’s license in 2016.
  • Lauren Sánchez founded Black Ops Aviation, US’ first woman-owned aerial film and production company, in 2017. The company owns an impressive fleet of aircrafts and helicopters like BELL 429 w/Shotover, AS350 w/Shotover, and Cirrus SR22. Under her directorship, the company has rendered its services to entertainment networks including ABC, Discovery Canada, Sony, Netflix, and Discovery. A photo of Lauren taken while she was sitting in the cockpit of a helicopter

    A photo of Lauren taken while she was sitting in the cockpit of a helicopter

  • Lauren Sánchez was later appointed as the Vice Chairperson of the Bezos Earth Fund through which she tries to educate the people across the globe about the threats posed by climate change.
  • In February 2019, Jeff made his relationship with Lauren public through a blog post according to which Jeff and Lauren were being blackmailed by a pro-Donald Trump media house named American Media, Inc. of releasing Jeff and Lauren’s private photos to the public. Jeff also claimed that American Media, Inc. demanded that the Washington Post, owned by Jeff, should curtail posting negative information and articles about Donald Trump.

Lauren Sanchez reportedly “cuts all ties” with her brother Michael after it’s revealed she saved him from bankruptcy by giving him a job and $165K – and he thanked her by allegedly leaking news of her husband Jeff Bezos’ affair.

How would you handle a family betrayal like this? pic.twitter.com/YItSSIBsuY

— The Talk (@TheTalkCBS) February 27, 2019

  • In 2023, Lauren announced that she would fly to space with an all-woman crew aboard the New Shepard rocket in 2024.
  • According to Lauren, she suffers from a learning disorder called Dyslexia. She talked about it in an interview and said,

    I am dyslexic and I literally had to put myself in a room and just cram to figure it out. They call them learning differences now, which is really sweet, but growing up I just thought that I was stupid. My co-anchors knew I was dyslexic but not many more [did]. I felt like I had to hide it because it just wasn’t something that people talked about.”

  • Lauren likes animals, and she owns an Old English Sheepdog named Luna and an Alaskan Malamute named Blu. A photo of Lauren's pets Luna and Blu

    A photo of Lauren’s pets Luna and Blu

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