Net Worth$45 Million
HusbandDouglas Brunt

Megyn Kelly Bio

Megyn Marie Kelly is a famous American journalist and media personality. The Megyn Kelly Show, a talk show and podcast she currently hosts, broadcasts live every day on SiriusXM. From 2004 to 2017, she hosted a talk show on Fox News. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a host and correspondent for NBC News. She uploads frequently to both her YouTube channel and Instagram page.

Kelly co-hosted America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer before taking over as host of America Live at Fox News. The two reporters hosted Fox News Channel’s New Year’s Eve specials from 2007 to 2012. Additionally, from October 2013 to January 2017, Kelly hosted The Kelly File.

She was listed as one of the 100 most influential people by TIME in 2014. In January 2017, Kelly joined NBC News after departing Fox News. In September 2017, she began hosting Megyn Kelly Today, her program for the third hour of the morning show Today. Following a segment on blackface, the show was canceled in October 2018 and she departed the network in January 2019.

Megyn Kelly Husband & EX-Husband

Megyn Kelly has had two marriages. Daniel Kendall was her first husband in 2001. Megyn Kelly divorced the anesthesiologist five years later.


She got married to Douglas Brunt, the CEO and president of the cybersecurity company Authentium, in 2008. The couple has three children together that they have raised during their marriage.

Megyn Kelly Children

Megyn welcomed their first child, Edward, a.k.a Yates, in September 2009. Three years after Yates was born, Megyn welcomed her second child and first daughter Yardley. In July 2013, Megyn welcomed her youngest child, Thatcher.

Megyn Kelly Net Worth

Megyn Kelly has an estimated net worth of $45 Million according to Celebrity Net Worth. Her primary source of income comes from her career. She has been able to establish a respectable income for herself after working in the field for quite some time now.

Megyn Kelly Salary

Megyn Kelly eventually made a peak salary of $8 million annually during the time she worked at Fox News. With this pay, she was on par with people like Tucker Carlson as one of the network’s highest earners.

Megyn Kelly did, however, experience a huge rise in pay following her choice to join NBC. Her three-year contract was worth $69 million equivalent to $23 million annually.

Megyn Kelly Age

Kelly was born on November 18, 1970 in Champaign, Illinois, USA. As of 2023 she is 53 years old. She will turn 54years old in 2024. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio and she enjoys a birthday celebration every year with her family and close friends.

Megyn Kelly Height, Weight & Body Measurement

Megyn Kelly weighs 58 kg and stands 5 feet 6 inches tall. Her entire body measures 35-25-35 inches, which includes her hips measuring 35 inches, waist measuring 25 inches, and bra size 32C. She wears a size 6 dress and an 8 shoe (US). She has blonde hair.

Megyn Kelly Parents

Megyn Kelly was born and raised in Champaign, Illinois, to her loving and caring parents. Her father Edward Kelly ,was a teacher at the State University of New York at Albany and her mother Linda Kelly, a housewife.

Her mother’s side of the family is Italian and German, while her father’s side is Irish. She had a Catholic upbringing. When she was fifteen years old, her father suffered a heart attack.

Megyn Kelly Education

Kelly went to Tecumseh Elementary School in Syracuse, New York. Her family relocated to the Albany suburb of Delmar, New York, when she was nine years old, and she went to Bethlehem Central High School there.

She graduated with a J.D. from Albany Law School in 1995 after earning an undergraduate degree in political science from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 1992.

Megyn Kelly Career

Megyn Kelly currently host The Megyn Kelly Show, a talk show and podcast that broadcasts live every day on SiriusXM. She achieved success in the legal field, but in 2003, her pivotal career in television began. Her first job was with a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate. Kelly covered the 2004 presidential election among other stories. She was hired by Fox News a year later, and she made her debut on programs like Special Report with Brit Hume. She was a great asset to the news team because of her legal background and hosted her own program, Kelly’s Court.

She used to only be a stand-in anchor; she was a regular guest panelist on shows like On the Record and The O’Reilly Factor. Megyn Kelly finally started hosting her own program, America Live, in 2010. She took a maternity leave, which she later served as a host of The Kelly File. One of Fox’s most watched shows, this one regularly garnered the highest ratings on Fox News.

Her contract with Fox expired in 2017 and she started working for NBC News. She first became well-known for her interviews with politicians, such as Vladimir Putin. She was employed by NBC in a “triple role.” In addition to hosting her own talk show, Megyn Kelly Today and a special Sunday night program, Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, this position would also entail acting as a correspondent. Megyn Kelly’s tenure at NBC was brief because, in 2018, she was forced to resign due to her controversial remarks.