Anecdotes

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 This Morning (2012), renamed CBS Mornings (2012), 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.