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How rich is Ken Jeong’s wife, Tran Jeong? Net Worth, Age, Height

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Tran Jeong is a family physician, but probably best known as the wife of stand-up comedian Ken Jeong, and for her activism, campaigns and charitable work on cancer awareness.

Early life, education and career

Tran Ho was born under the Zodiac sign of Pisces on 24 February 1972, in Los Angeles, California USA, the daughter of Vietnamese parents who immigrated to the US before her birth; no further information in regards to her parents or any siblings is available. Early in her life, Tran wanted to become a doctor, and she achieved this when she graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, in the late 1990s.

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After receiving her General Medicine diploma and certifications, she started working in the year 2000 at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in West California.

As of 2022, she’s been practicing family medicine for 22 years, and Tran currently has two practices and clinics in California: one in Woodland Hills, and the other in Thousand Oaks.

Personal life, marriage, children

Tran Jeong met her future husband, Ken Jeong in 2002, at a cocktail and happy hour party organized by the Kaiser Permanente hospital. Her husband was also working there as an internal medic; the two clicked immediately, and started dating soon after. They recall that they would at times sneak out for coffee breaks and meet one another at the hospital. The couple married two years later in September 2004, in a private ceremony.

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The year 2007 was a great one for them: Tran gave birth to their twin daughters Zooey and Alexa, while her husband made his big breakthrough in the movie scene, but hard days were to come.

Battle with cancer

In 2008, at the age of 35, Tran Jeong recalls:

“At about five months after the twins were born, I noticed I had developed a lump in my left breast. It was painful, and I thought, oh that happens all the time; it will get better.”

Due to her medical expertise, Tran knew that sometimes it’s normal for young mothers who breastfeed to develop benign lumps. Nevertheless, she checked with her physician about four months after noticing it, as at this point it was becoming symptomatic and painful.

The next day her physician bore very bad news for her: Tran had been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, which as she knew, has a survival rate of about 25%.

She called her husband Ken, who rushed immediately to her. Tran appreciated that he did not cry or show a lot of negative emotion or anxiety, but as he recalls, he cried all the way home:

“I was immediately in tears. I was trying to hide it from Tran. I remember just being in shock. All the emotions that are available, I felt.”

Treatment began soon after, and the first round of chemotherapy lasted for about three months. During the early days of this first round, she had to take a mandatory multiple-choice, an eight-hour medical board exam; these exams are taken by physicians once every 10 years, to renew their license and certifications – she passed it easily.

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Her body was responding very well to treatment, and this gave the family some much-needed hope. After chemo came a mastectomy, and then more chemotherapy, and at last radiation. The whole exhausting process took about eight months, with husband Ken taking the role of the doctor in the household, not giving in to drama and loss of control of the situation. As Tran recalls, Ken and her little girls gave her the necessary strength to heal:

“It seems crazy, but I felt thankful that I had such a wonderful life already,” Tran explains. “I was really happy that I had the girls, that I was married, that I had Ken. I felt like I had already lived such a great life and it was a miracle. I did feel like I was going to survive, but I also felt like it was OK.

“The twins kept my eyes on the prize. I thought I’m going to live; I’m going to fight this. I’m going to live for the girls, for Ken.

And at night, I would lapse and think about statistics on young women and triple-negative breast cancer, and it’s not great. I did have my fears, but by the time morning came, I would rally myself and think I’m going to do this.”

While after recovery there were fears that the cancer might return, this has proven not to be the case, and 14 years later in 2022, Tran is healthy.

After recovery, she and her husband started to engage in campaigns to raise public awareness on cancer generally and breast cancer specifically. They have done a lot of fundraising, and also invested themselves in this endeavor. Ken Jeong’s massive following on the screen and on social media has only contributed to the broader dissemination of this message.

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Who is Ken Jeong?

Ken Jeong was born under the Zodiac sign of Cancer on 13 July 1969, in Detroit, Michigan USA. His father, D. K., taught Economy at North Carolina A&T State University, while his mother Young Jeong took care of house affairs. Soon after Ken was born, the Jeong family moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he grew up. He matriculated from the Walter Hines Page High School in 1986, and was awarded for his excellent results in school. At the same time, he learned to play the violin, a hobby that he still keeps alive in his adult life.

After high school, he was accepted into the medical curriculum at Duke University, but he knew that he also liked cinema, acting and theater; thus in his free time, he would train to be an actor. In 1990 he graduated from Duke, and five years later obtained his medical license from the UNC School of Medicine.

He also took part-time theatre courses at UCLA – during the day he would attend classes and study, while in the evening he would rehearse and perform his stand-up comedy gigs in small North Carolina clubs, and pubs.

In the following years he completed his specialization in Internal Medicine, and became a resident at the Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. For a decade between 1998 and 2008, he would practice medicine, while continuing trying to make it on the big screen through small cameo roles, such as in “The Office” in the mid-2000s. During this time, he moved from Louisiana to California to be more in touch with the TV scene, and started working at the Kaiser Permanente hospital, where he met his future wife.

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His major breakthrough into the movie scene came in 2007, when he played a minor role in the movie “Knocked Up”, which helped him land the role of antagonist Mr. Chow in the “Hangover” movie franchise. It was during this time that he left his job as a doctor to pursue acting full-time, with great support from his wife. As he recalls:

“My whole career has been very surreal. I just remember that when I quit my day job, it was Tran who supported me. I don’t think I would have done it without her.”

As the first “Hangover” movie was being filmed in 2008, Tran was undergoing cancer treatment.

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This proved to be a challenge for Ken, who coped with humor and a light heart. In fact, as a tribute to his wife, he would from time to time use a Vietnamese accent during the movie, although his character was South Korean. At other times he would go slightly off-script, and insert some inside joke that he and his wife had.

After the success of the franchise, through which he earned his first big-screen awards, he kept on with stand-up comedy, while appearing in other movies in which he combined his profession as a doctor with his acting. In 2019, his stand-up special “You Complete Me, Ho” streamed on Netflix, and since February 2020, he’s served as host of the game show “I Can See Your Voice”.

Appearance and net worth

Tran Jeong has dark brown hair and brown eyes, stands at 5ft 5ins (165cm), weighs approximately 120lbs (55kg), with vital statistics of 34-28-40, bra size 34C, and shoe size 5 (US).

Her individual net worth is about $1.2 million, while her husband’s net worth is estimated at $14 million. In 2010 the family bought a large and apparently expensive house in Calabasas, California.

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The Untold Truth about Dr Dre’s Daughter La Tanya Danielle Young

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La Tanya Young Danielle is an American personality, famously known for being one of the three daughters of Dr Dre, who is an acclaimed celebrity in the world of hip hop music, and boasts of founding Death Row Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Beats Electronics.

Age, Early Life, and Education Background

La Tanya Young Danielle was born under the Capricorn zodiac sign in Memorial Hospital of Gardena, California, on 19 January 1983, which makes her 39 years old as of 2022. She was born to her mother Lisa Jackson, and her then partner, the accomplished record producer, entrepreneur and singer Andre Romelle Young known professionally as Dr Dre; she was raised in her birth-town alongside her siblings Curtis and Marcel Young, but seemingly had a rough childhood since her parents separated when she was barely five years old – she disclosed during an interview that after her parent’s separation, she had to go through her father’s security and assistants just to speak to him.

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Young has four half-siblings Bailei Knight, Andre Young Jr, Truly Young, and Tyra Young from her paternal side, and her grandparents are Theodore Young and Verna Young.

La Tanya attended Chatsworth High before she was enrolled to study an administrative assistant medical course at the High Desert Medical College. According to her Facebook profile, she also went to the University of Phoenix to study Business Management, and graduated in 2019.

Interesting Facts

Young is Dr Dre’s and Lisa Johnson’s eldest daughter.

Her father was abusive towards her mother, and allegedly beat her even when she was expectant, which eventually led to their divorce.

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According to her, she has not met her father face-to-face for more than a decade and a half now.

Lisa Johnson was fifteen years old when La Tanya was born to her, and her father was 17.

Career

Despite being a daughter of a multi-millionaire, La Tanya reveals that she has taken a number of odd jobs to make a living, including working for several delivery firms such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. According to her, ‘People label me as a millionaire’s daughter, so they don’t understand why I’m working. It makes me want to crawl under a rock.’ She works as an assembler at a warehouse, and sources reveal that she earns around $15 per hour.

Personal life, Rumors, and Controversies

Danielle has kept her romantic life details under the wraps, and it’s currently unclear whether she is dating anyone. However, it’s well-known that she’s the mother of four children, two boys, D’Andre Young (born in 2013) and Jason III Young (born in 2018) and two daughters Tatiyana (currently 16 years old) and Rhiana Young, who is now 13. She recently left California to settle in Nevada, since the latter has higher pay and more bjo availability.

La Tanya is seemingly avoiding social media, and isn’t active on any platform. Nonetheless, her father and most of her siblings are active on several social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.

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Rumors and Controversies

Is Tanya Young Homeless?

Dr Dre suffered a controversy in August 2021 when his daughter revealed that she was homeless, broke, and that she was living out of a rented SUV. She disclosed that she has been trying to seek financial assistance from her father for the last two years, but he’s refused to support her since she allegedly spoke ill about him in the past.

La Tanya’s Relationship with Her Father, Dr Dre

La Tanya recently opened up about her estranged relationship with her father. She told The Daily Mail that despite the fact that she struggles financially, she wants nothing but to have a relationship with him. She said ‘Money is not what I want, I feel better doing it on my own’ and further revealed that she recently applied for a driving job at FedEX international shipping firm.

She added that her father ‘…never set her up to be able to not need him. He never paid for college, he never did anything to help her and her sisters get along’ disclosing that all she needed was closure. She also said that her father has never met her four children, who just like him, love music very much.

Young revealed to The Daily Mail that she had suspicions that her stepmother, Nicole was purposely keeping her and her father apart, and added that she thought that things between her and her father would change after Nicole filed for divorce against him and recalled that, ‘I went to the gate and our names weren’t on the list. The security lady still let us in because she knew us.

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But Nicole turned into Cruella de Vil. She asked us what we were doing there, said that he was sleeping, and threatened to call the police on us.’ She was sixteen years old then. She publicly says that she believes that her father gave up on her and that she does not know why yet.

Body Measurements

La Tanya is of Afro-American ethnicity and has black hair and dark-brown eyes. She stands 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall and weighs about 127lbs (57kg).

Net Worth

Danielle has disclosed very little regarding her career and the source of her earnings, so her net worth is currently estimated at less than $200,000.

However, her father is worth an estimated astounding $800 million as of 2022 and has earned the impressive sum from his multifaceted career in the showbiz industry. He is also the co-founder of the electronic firm, Beats By Dre, which was acquired by Apple Inc. for $3 billion in 2014.

Who Is La Tanya Danielle’s Father, Dr Dre?

Andre Romelle Young was born on 18 February 1965, in Compton, California, so is 57 years old as of 2022. He began his career in the mid ‘80s as a World Class Wreckin’ Cru member. He caught the public attention when he later joined the rap band, N.W.A., which made explicit hip hop music about violent street life. In the 1990s, he is credited with making Coast G-Funk hip hop subgenre popular – Coast G-Funk was characterized by slow, heavy beats, and synthesizer foundation. He released his first solo album, “The Chronic,” which had many hit songs such as “Let Me Ride” and “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” in 1992, and received a lot of positive reviews, and earning him a Grammy Award. He has since released many songs, and produced for other artists, working with many notable figures in the music world such as Snoop Dog, Eminem, 50 Cent, and many others.

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Over the years, Dr Dre has had many romantic affairs with numerous women; he met and began dating Cassandra Greene when he was 15 and they welcomed a son, Curtis, soon afterwards. In 1983, he began an affair with Lisa Johnson and they had La Tanya Danielle; he later became the father of two other children with her. He also welcomed with Jenita Porter a son Andre, who sadly died in 2008 as a result of heroin overdose. In 1996, he tied the knot with Nicole Threatt and they had two children together (Truice and Truly).

Dr Dre has been accused of being violent towards women on a couple of occasions. In the early ‘90s, he assaulted Fox TV host Dee Barnes, which saw him fined a sum of $2,500, and put on probation for two years. He was also accused of assault by Michelle, who is one of his childs’ mothers. He also reportedly assaulted Tairrie B, a former labelmate, and several other women, including La Tanya’s mother – not a great CV!

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How Rich is Jen Psaki’s Husband Gregory Mecher? Net Worth, Wiki

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Gregory Mecher is a renowned political aide, and Assistant Finance Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), who is also famously known for being the husband of the 34th and current White House Communication Director, Jen Psaki.

Early Life and Education Background

Gregory Mecher was born in Southern Ohio, USA, under the Libra zodiac sign on 30 September 1976, which makes him 45 years old as of early 2022; his parents are Michael Mecher, who works as a mechanical engineer for HK Systems, in Hebron, Kentucky, and his wife Mary Ann Mecher, who is a teacher at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic School. Gregory was raised in his hometown; details of any siblings and other childhood events are unavailable.

Mecher attended Cincinnati’s Elder High, which is a Catholic boy-prep school. He later matriculated to Northern Kentucky University to study communication and television production, and graduated with a degree in 1999.  As a student, Mecher was passionate about politics, and was a member of the Board of Regents as a student representative. He came in as a student senate member for a couple of years, before he became the president of North Kentucky University Student Government Association (SGA) – he later secured an internship with Congressman Ken Lucas of Kentucky.

Facts and Hobbies

Mecher likes watching American Football, supporting the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team – his wife told Cincinnati Enquirer that ‘…when it comes to the Bengals, he’s a fanatic Bengals and Reds fan’

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Professional Life

After he completed his internship, Gregory landed a job on Capitol Hill, Washington DC , and furthered his political career by working for many prominent politicians there. He has collaborated with Patrick Kennedy and Steve Driehaus, and has also worked for John F. Kennedy III as his Chief of Staff, as well as for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for more than a decade now.

Gregory prefers living a private life, and hasn’t posted anything on Facebook since 2014. He is inactive on Twitter and Instagram.

Personal Life

Psaki and Gregory were working for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee when they first met in 2006.

At that time, he was pursuing his career in DC, and was Congressman Steve Driehaus’ of Ohio’s Chief of Staff  – he also worked for Rep J. Kennedy III (Massachusetts) as his Chief of Staff. According to sources, their romance was sparked when Psaki gave him wrong directions to a certain political event. He revealed during an interview with The Washington Post that ‘Years later and being married to her, I can say this is definitely not one of my wife’s strong points, directions…By the time I got there, I was wondering who the heck this person was.’ Instead of being mad over the issue, Gregory forgave Psaki as he found her very attractive, as he further revealed.

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Although he was nervous about asking her on a date at first, he finally gathered enough courage and asked her out through a letter in September 2006, and she accepted.

Gregory and Psaki had a long-distance relationship for about two years before they tied the knot. He told the Post that ‘The longest we went without seeing each other was 36 days. And I counted. And it was long. And I waited.’ Their marriage was officiated by the United Church of Christ’s minister Rev. David D. Young on a Saturday evening at Woodlawn Farm, situated in Ridge, Maryland.

The duo have so far welcomed two children together, a daughter Genevieve Mecher, and a son, whose name has been kept under wraps. The duo are currently raising their children in Virginia and are seemingly living a happy life together.

Height, Weight, and Physical Appearance

Gregory is of white ethnicity, and has hazel eyes with short brown curly hair. He is 5ft 11ins ( 1.80m) tall and weighs approximately 186lbs (89kg)

Net Worth

Gregory has accumulated a substantial net worth, thanks to his long-spanning political career. He is authoritatively worth approximately $1 million as of 2022. On the other hand, his wife, Psaki, is worth approximately $2 million.

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Who is Gregory Mecher’s wife, Jen psaki

Jeniffer Rene ‘Jen’ Psaki is a political advisor, who is currently serving under President Joe Biden’s administration. She hails from Stamford, Connecticut, and was born on 1 December 1978, so 43 years old, to Dimitrious R. Psaki, a former real estate developer and his wife, Eileen Medvey, a psychotherapist. Psaki attended Greenwich High in 1992, and matriculated to College of William & Mary, from which she graduated with a degree in Sociology and English in 2000. During her college days, she was a skilled swimmer and competed in a couple of inter-school competitions, from some of which she emerged a winner.

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Career

Psaki began her career a year after her graduation during the election campaigns of 2001, working for Tom Vilsack, who was looking to be re-elected as a governor. She later became John Kelly’s Assistant Press Secretary in 2004, before she began serving as Joseph Crowley’s -US representative – Communication Director until 2006. She has since worked for several notable political figures, including former president Barack Obama as his Traveling Press Secretary throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, and boasts of working for President Barack Obama as his Deputy Communications Director after he won his elections.

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She also worked as a Press Secretary for Obama’s re-election campaigns in 2012, before she landed a job as a US Department of State spokesperson a year later. In 2015, she went back to the White House to work as a Communication Director and held the position until President Obama’s second term ended. She also boasted of being a CNN political commentator in 2017.

In 2020, Psaki left CNN to work for President Biden as White House Press Secretary, holding her first briefing on 20 January 2020. She announced during an interview in May 2021 that she would be departing from her current position in 2022.

Psaki tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2021, which saw her quarantined – she returned to work later that year after she’d fully recovered.

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