Ginger Zee Biography

Fast Facts

• Is named Ginger after the Gilligan's Island character
• Developed an interest in severe weather at age 8 during an extremely volatile summer spent in a cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan
• Served as an adjunct professor at her alma mater Valparaiso University from 2008-2011
• Is an adventure enthusiast who has gone para-hawking in Nepal, para-glided from the Himalayas to the Andes, swam with sharks in the Bahamas and rappelled 27 stories down the Wit Hotel in Chicago
• In July 2015, a pregnant Zee revealed the gender of her first child with husband Ben Aaron during a live Good Morning America segment
• Has worked with the group Wake Up Narcolepsy to raise awareness about the chronic sleep disorder, which she was diagnosed with when she was 21