Dr Jennifer Ashton Bio, Personal Life, Career, Net Worth, Metrics

Jennifer Ashton is a board-certified obstetrician, author, and television medical correspondent. She currently works as a health and medical editor and correspondent for ABC News as well as Good Morning America. She also served as chief women’s health correspondent for ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ where guests like Shaun T. and Tony Robbin 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 his jump, he wrote a note writing his ex-wife Jennifer’s number asking to call her. Additionally, the ex-couple were together from 1996 to 2017 and died just two weeks after their divorce was finalized.

JENNIFER ASHTON: BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Ashton was born on April 23, 1969 at George Air Force Base, California, United States. She was born as the daughter of father Oscar Garfein, a New York cardiologist, and mother Dorothy Garfein, a registered nurse. Additionally, she has a brother named Evan Garfein who is the Chief of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery at Montefiore Hospital in New York.

She attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, and completed her studies in French and English. She then attended Columbia College, Columbia University, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Art History in 1991. The medical advisor also earned her MD in Physicians and Surgeons from the same college in 2000.

From an early age, she turned to the profession of doctor because she had been strongly influenced by her parents. Over the years she became interested in gynecology and later in primary care issues affecting women. So, she enrolled in Columbia University from where she obtained her Masters in Nutrition from Columbia University in 2016. Additionally, Dr. Ashton is also board certified in Obesity Medicine.

JENNIFER ASHTON: PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

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

As an author, she has written a number of magazine articles and contributed to a health blog for The Record. Ashton has also authored three books to date. They are on ‘The Body Scoop for Girls (2009)’, ‘Your Body Beautiful (2012)’ and ‘Eat This When You’re Expecting, Not That (2016)’.

Working from home…on call for @abcnews and my patients, today and every day… #notjustadoctorontv #workingfromhome #covid19A post shared by Dr. Jennifer Ashton (@drjashton) on May 5, 2020 at 3:08 p.m. PDT

One of the few practicing doctors, she also became one of them to launch her career as a television medical correspondent. Additionally, she is noted as the first female medical contributor to the network, Fox News Channel in 2006. Then she left to join CBS News in 2009 as a medical correspondent. she has 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 News Network Medical Unit. Additionally, she became a co-host of the nationally broadcast, Emmy Award-winning daytime medical show ‘The Doctors’, created by Phil McGraw , from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, Dr. was named chief women’s health correspondent for ABC News and appeared several times a week on the nation’s number one morning news show, Good Morning America.

JENNIFER ASHTON: PERSONAL LIFE AND HUSBAND

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

Additionally, Robert was also of medical lineage 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 ex-couple had welcomed two children together: Chloe and Alex. Their marriage remained for nearly a decade and divorced in January 2017. Ashton went public with her ex-husband’s passing during an interview with a colleague. Georges Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, after the announcement of Kate Spade’s suicide in June 2018.

JENNIFER ASHTON: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

Talking about her income, without a doubt, she must be earning a lot of money from her authored books, writing blogs and articles, medical advice, and television appearances. Hence, according to sources, his net worth is estimated to be around $8 million from his career.

She is very active on different social media platforms with verified accounts. On Twitter, she has a @DrJAshton account with 88.8k followers. She goes by the @dr Excludes handle with 189,000 followers. Ashton also has a verified Facebook account under her name with over 46.5 followers. She also manages and owns her own website under her name ‘ jenniferashtonmd.com ‘.

JENNIFER ASHTON: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The veteran doctor has a slim and fit boy who is 5ft 9in or 1.75m tall and weighs around 60kg. Her body measures 33 inches in chest, 24 inches in waist, and 34 inches in hips. She has beautiful blue eyes with blonde hair.