Dr. Jennifer Ashton Biography, Personal Life, Career, History, Net Worth

Profession:	Journalist
Date of Birth:	April 23, 1969
Years:	51
History:	8 million
Place of birth:	George Air Force Base, Victorville, CA
Height (m):	1.75
Religion:	Christendom
Marital status:	Divorced

Jennifer Ashton is a Board Certified OB/GYN, author, and television medical correspondent. She currently works as the chief health and medicine editor and correspondent for ABC News, as well as Good Morning America. She has also been the chief women’s health correspondent for ‘The Dr. Oz Show,’ where guests like Shaun T and Tony Robbins have appeared.

According to reports from Dailymail.com On February 14, 2017, Jennifer’s ex-husband, Dr. Robert C Ashton Jr., jumped to his death at the age of 2 from the George Washington Bridge. Before her jump, he wrote a note writing her ex-wife Jennifer’s number requesting to call her. Furthermore, the former couple were together between 1996 and 2017 and died just two weeks after their divorce was finalized.

Subtitle : The medical correspondent, Ob-Gyn, and the author, Jennifer Ashton.
Source : ABC News

Jennifer Ashton: biography, family, education

Ashton was born on April 23, 1969, at George Air Force Base, California, USA. She was born the daughter of her father Oscar Garfein, a New York City cardiologist, and her mother Dorothy Garfein, a registered nurse. Additionally, she has a brother named Evan Garfein who is chief of plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.

He attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, completing his studies in French and English. She later attended Columbia College, Columbia University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in art history in 1991. The medical consultant she also received her medical degree in Physicians and Surgeons from the same university in 2000.

From a very young age, she has been inclined to be a doctor, as her parents had greatly influenced her. Over the years, her interest shifted to being a gynecologist and then to primary care issues affecting women. So, she enrolled at Columbia University, where she received her master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University in 2016. Additionally, Dr. Ashton is also board certified in Obesity Medicine.

Jennifer Ashton: career and life achievements

In 2008, Dr. Ashton opened her private medical practice called Hygeia Gynecology in Englewood, New Jersey. It looks more like a spa than a clinic equipped with luxurious materials and high-tech equipment. Additionally, she completed her residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, which was renamed Mount Sinai Morningside.

As an author, she has written several magazine articles and contributed to a health blog for The Record. Ashton has also written three books to date. She appears in ‘The Body Scoop for Girls (2009)’, ‘Your Body Beautiful (2012)’ and ‘Eat This When you’re Expect, Not That (2016)’.

One of the few practicing doctors, he also became one of them to launch his career as a medical television correspondent. She is also known as the first female medical contributor for the network, Fox News Channel in 2006. She then left to join CBS News in 2009 as a medical correspondent. she appeared on shows like ‘The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric’ and ‘The Early Show’.

Since 2012, she has worked as a senior medical contributor in the ABC Network News medical unit. In addition, she became the co-host of the nationally organized, Emmy Award-winning daytime doctor show “The Doctors,” created by Phil McGraw, from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, Dr. Ashton was appointed Chief Health Correspondent of the ABC News woman and appeared several times a week on the number one morning newscast in the country, Good Morning America.

Jennifer Ashton: personal life and husband

Move into the personal life of a medical adviser who tries to break the peace with comfortable and understandable conversations. Well, she is divorced and is currently living her single life. However, two weeks after she finalized her divorce from her ex-husband, he committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Furthermore, she married her ex-husband Robert Ashton Jr. on August 31, 1996.

In addition, Robert was also in the medical line as a thoracic and cardiac surgeon. Robert was director of thoracic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and chief thoracic surgeon at Hackensack University Medical Center. The former couple had welcomed two children: Chloe and Alex. Their marriage lasted almost a decade and the divorce was finalized in January 2017. Ashton went public with her ex-husband’s death during an interview with colleague George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, after news of Kate Spade’s suicide broke in June. of 2018.

Subtitle : Jennifer Ashton and her ex-husband Robert Ashton Jr.
Source : Daily Mail

Jennifer Ashton: Net Worth and Social Media Profiles

Speaking of his income, without any doubt, he must be earning a great deal from his authored books, writing blogs and articles, medical advice, and appearing on television. Therefore, according to sources, her net worth is estimated to be around $8 million from her career earnings.

She is very active on different social media platforms with verified accounts. On Twitter she has an account @DrJAshton with 88.8k followers. She goes for the handle @drjashton with 189k followers. Ashton also has a verified Facebook account under her name with over 46.5 followers. She also runs and owns her own website under her name ‘ jenniferashtonmd.com ‘.

Jennifer Ashton: Net Worth

The veteran doctor has a slim and fit boy who is 1.75 meters tall and weighs about 60 kg. His body measures 33 inches on the chest, 24 inches on the waist, and 34 inches on the hips. He has attractive blue eyes with blonde hair.