Killinger is from Grosse Pointe, Mich., a Detroit suburb, however spent a piece of her childhood in Mexico Metropolis, the place her father, who labored for Ford Motors, moved the household when she was 11. She was bullied there for trying completely different and bullied once more again in America when she pulled as much as Grosse Pointe South Excessive College — preppy Izod metropolis — trying “like a combo platter of Debbie Gibson, large bangs, shellacking hair spray, blow dryer to maintain them up, white frost lip gloss.”

In 1995, she graduated from Penn State with a advertising and marketing diploma and later labored in tv, together with on air in native information in Albany, N.Y., and Orlando, Fla. In 2006, Martha Stewart fired her from “The Apprentice.”

A self-proclaimed homebody, she likes to spend her free time together with her husband, Joe Carretta, and adopted daughter, Jagger, who’s 6. She additionally cares for her mom, “who’s 84 and lives with me and isn’t nice and requires a whole lot of care, and making an attempt to be a mother to a 6-year-old, who, by the way in which, I’m 51, so I began somewhat late there.”

Seek for Killinger’s title on-line and the primary outcomes are articles a few cheeky on-air debate she had in 2017 together with her frequent co-host, the style designer Isaac Mizrahi, about whether or not the moon is a star or planet. (It is neither.)

I known as Mizrahi, and he agreed that anybody who desires to learn to be extra breezily authoritative, or come throughout prefer it, ought to watch what Killinger does with a pullover.

“The arrogance that I exude is extra like bravado, like a pretend confidence,” he mentioned. “Whereas when she places on a jacket or somewhat sweater, she seems to be superb in it as a result of she’s so dedicated to how nice it seems to be on her that she actually seems to be nice.”