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Joan Lunden is one of America’s most recognized and trusted television personalities. As host of Good Morning America for almost two decades, she helped millions of American families start each day. The longest running host ever on early morning television, during her tenure she reported from 26 countries, covered four presidents, five Olympics, and two royal weddings. An award-winning television journalist, best-selling author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and mother of seven, Joan Lunden defines “today’s working mother.” Lunden has been a constant and reassuring presence in American homes for over 25 years, keeping viewers informed on the latest information to care for their homes and families.
Lunden is the host of Lifetime Television’s Health Corner, which in sponsored by Walgreens. The weekly television series educates viewers on important issues such as improving health, childcare, nutrition, and medicine. Lunden is also the host of Hometown Heroes on DIRECTV which highlights extraordinary civilians whose stories impact lives across the country. Lunden also recently hosted the CW Network special, America’s Invisible Children which won a 2008 Emmy for Best Television Special.
Joan Lunden is one of the most visible women in America, having graced the covers of over 40 magazines. She is the face of Murad’s Resurgence skincare. By sharing her personal experiences as a mother, Lunden has become a vocal parenting advocate. She and her husband recently launched a child safety product, Kinderkord, which is designed to help parents and children stay connected. She was voted “Mother of the Year” by the National Mothers Day Committee and “Career Mother of the Year” by the National Institute of Infant Services. Lunden has served as national spokesperson for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the American Lung Association’s campaign on the dangers of smoking and pregnancy, the American Red Cross and “First Steps to a Healthy Smile” for Oral B and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A passion for disseminating wellness information and inspiring people to take charge of their health and happiness has been at the forefront of many of Lunden’s projects. Lunden’s latest venture has been the creation of Camp Reveille, a summer camp wellness retreat for women where they can energize their spirits, renew their sense of self, jump start their fitness, meet other women, and learn the tools needed to achieve a healthier balance in their lives. These life-enhancing getaways take place in the lake region of Southern Maine.
A best selling author, her books include Growing Up Healthy: Protecting Your Child From Diseases Now Through Adulthood, Wake-Up Calls, A Bend In The Road Is Not The End Of The Road, Joan Lunden’s Healthy Living, Joan Lunden’s Healthy Cooking, Mother’s Minutes, Your Newborn Baby, and Good Morning I’m Joan Lunden. She also hosts the exercise video Workout America.
For more information about Joan Lunden, please visit her website, Joan Lunden’s Healthy Living at www.JoanLunden.com.
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Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series Wickedly Perfect, and was a popular co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 through 1997. As the longest running morning news host, Lunden became one of the most visible women in the country. She joined GMA in the fall of 1976 as a feature news/consumer reporter, and later became fill in co-host as former co-host Sandy Hill left to work on coverage of the Winter Olympics. Lunden's popularity with viewers led her to her quick promotion to co-host with David Hartman, the program's original host. Entertainment Weekly magazine national viewer poll named her "television's favorite morning anchor," during her years at GMA.
Her popularity on the GMA program from the 70's through the 90's allowed her to interview U.S. President and First Ladies Gerald and Betty Ford, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, George and Barbara Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and also Texas Governor George and Laura Bush, prior to the younger Bush's 2000 election as President.
She was a host on the A&E cable network program Behind Closed Doors (originally aired on ABC as occasional prime time specials) (1996-2001) which was an on-location / undercover reporter program; and also frequently guest hosted Biography on Cable TV's A&E Channel.
Lunden was born in California as Joan Blunden. Lunden has a liberal arts degree from Sacramento State, where she was initiated as a member of the Greek sorority Delta Gamma. She also studied Spanish and anthropology at Mexico City's Universidad de Las Americas. She was a visiting instructor at Montclair State College in New Jersey, where she taught a course in broadcast journalism
She began her broadcasting career in Sacramento, California, where she worked for KCRA-TV and Radio as co-anchor of the daily noon television news program. She also produced the noon news broadcast and hosted KCRA's television specials.
In 1975, Lunden joined New York's WABC-TV Eyewitness News and a year later became co-anchor on the weekend newscasts. As the co-host of GMA, Lunden traveled the world, covering historic events, such as the 50th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe) in 1995; the 50th anniversary of D-Day; the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and Calgary; and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. She covered the administrations and inaugurations of three Presidents: Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan. She was one of only three American journalists to interview Prince Charles during his 1983 visit to the United States.
Lunden was known for her willingness to take risks in her role as host. She climbed and rappelled Alaska's famed Mendenhall Glacier and bungee-jumped off a 143-foot bridge and parapented off a 2,000-foot mountain during the program's highly rated trip to New Zealand. She also navigated the whitewater rapids of a Georgia river for a GMA show in 1994. She has been at the controls of an F-16 jet and soared with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, as well as flown in a T-34 Naval flight training plane. She is also a skilled horsewoman, jumping thoroughbred horses, and also has gone to bat with the Chicago Cubs at spring training.
Lunden also hosted ABC's broadcast of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, from 1989 to 1991.
She has received numerous honors including the Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Yeshiva University, YWCA Outstanding Woman's Award Speaker, National Women's Political Caucus Award, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Award and Baylor University Outstanding Woman of the Year. The National Mother's Day Committee selected her as the Outstanding Mother of the Year in 1982-83 for her dedication to motherhood. She has been a national spokesperson for MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving).
In April 1991, Lunden was honored by New York Women in Communications with a Matrix Award for her "outstanding contributions to the broadcasting field."
Lunden was married to Michael Krauss from 1978 until their divorce in 1992; the couple have 3 daughters: Jamie, 26; Lindsay Krauss, 24; and Sarah, 18. She married Jeff Konigsberg on April 18, 2000; they have 4 children, two sets of twins (each consisting of one boy and one girl, born in 2003 and 2005), both of which were delivered by Joan Lunden's surrogate mother, Deborah Bolig, in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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