And once she got past that, the reporter in her kinda took over.
And then she’s been at everything ever since!"
It’s not the first health-related surgery that the pair have weathered together.
According toGood Housekeeping, Al Roker’s 2002 gastric bypass surgery led him to lose 160 pounds.
Before that, Roker once wrote forToday, he was in a “mixed weight” marriage.
But after his surgery, they started running together.
“Within a year,” Roker recounted, “I ran the New York City Marathon.
Roberts takes issue with Roker using malted milk to prepare the pancakes.
On Sunday evenings, Deborah Roberts reads (The Atlantic, Time, andVogue) in bed.
“We don’t have TVs in our bedrooms,” she explained.
That’s because Roberts is a hard-hitting journalist, in her own right.
What else has Deborah Roberts reported on as an Emmy-award winning news correspondent for ABC?
Despite (or because) of their differences, their marriage is thriving.
They met in 1990 when Roberts started her job at NBC.
“I just thought he was a nice guy, and that was that,” she once toldPeople.
(Roker was married at the time, to his first wife, Alice Bell).
Two years after Roker’s split with his wife, and a couple of jobs later, they reconnected.
“He was a nice guy but … overly chatty,” Roberts said.
“I just didn’t think of him beyond a friend,” Roberts claims.
When she got back, he had filled her refrigerator and left her flowers.
“It was like, what is this guy trying to do?”
Roberts remembered, “It was a gradual thing after that.”
What’s Al Roker’s strategy for keeping his marriage happy?
“Especially when Deborah talks and tells me how I should feel,” Roker joked toUSA Today.
“It’s so much easier.
I go, ‘Yes, absolutely.'”
