- Her daughter, Kirby Lynette King Bumpus, graduated in 2008 from Stanford with a double major in Human Biology and Psychology. Kirby's godmother, Oprah Winfrey, was the commencement speaker.
- Has the enviable distinction of being Oprah Winfrey's closest friend.
- Was a news anchor for WFSB Eyewitness News out of Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- Often jokes about her size-10 feet, which are the same size as those of her best friend, Oprah Winfrey.
- From age five to eleven, she grew up in Ankara, Turkey, where her father Scott was an electronic engineer who worked for the Turkish government (1960-66).
- Friends with Tamron Hall.
- After graduating college, she took her first job in media at WJZ-TV, channel 13 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, as a production assistant. It is there where she first met Oprah Winfrey, who was a news anchor at the same station, becoming lifelong friends.
- In her role as lead anchor on CBS Mornings (2012), renamed CBS Mornings (2021), several sources have estimated her current salary, as of 2023, at $12 million per year. She began her role as one of the anchors of the show in 2012.
- She is a 1976 graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in psychology.
- Grandmother of Grayson Miller, and Luca Miller.
- She is the oldest of four siblings, including three younger sisters.
- Aunt of Mekenzye Schwab.
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