Joan Lunden is a beautiful American journalist, television personality, and news anchor who is currently working at NBC’s today as a special correspondent. Previously, she used to work as a co-host of Good Morning America, serving from 1980 up to 1997. Besides, she has appeared in both Biography Program and Biography Channel.
- Joan Lunden was born Joan Elise Blunden on the 19th of September, 1950, at Fair Oaks, California, in the United States of America. She is now 71 years old as of 2022, and she, therefore, celebrates her happy birthday together with her family, friends, and workmates on the 19th of September every year. She will be celebrating her next birthday on the 19th of September, 2022, when she will be turning 72 years old.
- Joan is the last-born daughter of Dr. Erle Murray Blunden and Mrs. Gladyce Loraine Somerville. Details about her siblings are not available at the moment but will soon be updated.
- Lunden is a woman of average height and weight, as seen in her photos. She stands at a height of 1.7 meters and has a bodyweight of 72kg.
- Joan acquired her bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts at California State University in Sacramento. She also went to Mexico, where she pursued a course in Spanish and Human Studies at Universidad de Las Americans.
- Joan was once married to a man called Michael A. Krauss in the year 1978, but later on, in 1992, the couple divorced. Their marriage was blessed with three daughters. In April, 200 she again married Jeff Konigsberg, and the marriage is blessed with four children.
- In her two marriages, Lunden is blessed with a total of seven children, namely, Jamie Krauss, Lindsay Krause, Max Aaron Konigsberg, Sarah Emily Krauss, Kate Elizabeth Konigsberg, Jack Konigsberg, and Kimberly Konigsberg. Jack, Kimberly and Kate, Max is pairs of twins that Joan Lunden bore. Lunden is also blessed with a granddaughter called Parker Leigh.
- Lunden started her professional career as a meeting instructor, where she covered communication news at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Later on, she held a position as a stay at KCRA TV, facilitating KCRA TV specials and creating the early afternoon news. She also served as a news anchor in Bosom Malignant growth on Good Morning America.
- Joan started working with New York’s WABC TV, Eye Witness News, in 1975, where she decided to change her name to avoid being assigned ‘Fumble.’
- Joan joined GMA during the fall of 1976 as a buyer reporter, and thereafter she was a fill-in-co-have after the former co-have let for ABC’s incorporation of the 1976 Winter Olympics.
- In 2014 June, Lunden was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer and was given intensive treatment. Currently, she is free from the disease and is living happily.
- Joan is one of the richest journalists in America. The American television host has an estimated net worth of $25 million.