Jennifer Ashton

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Jennifer Ashton Biography

Author, TV medical commentator, and physician who established a private gynecology practice in New Jersey and wrote The Body Scoop for Girls.

She received her MD from Columbia University and became a board-certified Ob-Gyn.

Her book The Body Scoop for Girls is a health information book aimed at adolescent girls and attempts to enlighten them about their bodies as they mature.

Her father was a cardiologist, her mother was a nurse, and she married surgeon Dr. Robert C. Ashton, Jr.

She appeared regularly as a medical contributor on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

Jennifer Lee Ashton (born April 23, 1969) is a physician, author, and television correspondent. She is chief health and medical editor and chief medical correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America, chief women’s health correspondent for The Dr. Oz Show, and a columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine. She is also a frequent guest speaker and moderator for events raising awareness of women’s health issues.

In 1991, she graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, with a bachelor’s degree in art history.

On August 31, 1996, Jennifer married Robert Ashton Jr, a thoracic and cardiac surgeon and later had two children, Chloe and Alex. In January 2017, they divorced. On February 11, 2017, two weeks after the divorce was finalized, Robert, 52, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. On June 6, 2018, after news of Kate Spade’s suicide broke, Ashton went public about her ex-husband’s death during an interview with colleague George Stephanapoulos on Good Morning America.

She received her medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2000.

Ashton launched her television career in 2006 as the first female medical contributor to the Fox News Channel. She appeared on The Learning Channel’s A Baby Story, on PBS, and on Oprah & Friends XM radio’s The Dr. Oz Show.

In 2007, Ashton was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey. In 2008, she received the Hope for The Future Award from The Octoberwoman Foundation for Breast Cancer Awareness.

She joined CBS News as a medical correspondent in 2009, contributing to all CBS media platforms, with regular appearances on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and The Early Show. She remains a featured expert commentator on WCBS Radio and its national affiliates.

Ashton has authored numerous magazine articles and contributed to a health blog for The Record of Bergen, New Jersey. In addition, she has written three books: The Body Scoop for Girls (2009), which educates teenage girls on the topic of puberty; Your Body Beautiful (2012), which addresses health and wellness issues in middle-aged women; and Eat This When You’re Expecting, Not That (2016), in which she outlines a diet designed specifically for pregnant women.

She joined the ABC News medical unit as senior medical contributor in 2012, making regular appearances on Good Morning America and ABC World News Tonight.

Ashton co-hosted the short-lived ABC television series The Revolution, canceled in April 2012 due to poor viewership.

In 2013 she became an on-air personality for the daytime talk show The Doctors.

A board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, Ashton completed her residency at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai Morningside) in New York.

In 2016, she received her master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University.

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