Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas, USA, August 15, 1944) is an outspoken journalist who is most famously known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight. She has also served as a reporter for the morning television programs The Today Show and Good Morning America. More recently she has been hosting Nick News, a "kid's issues" television program on Nickelodeon.

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Bryan, Texas - USA - August 15 - 1944 - NBC News - Washington - The Today Show - Good Morning America - Nick News - Nickelodeon

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Ellerbee had become overweight in the 1980s, and lost over 50 pounds (23 kg) in the mid-1990s in a highly-publicized eating regimen. She also survived breast cancer around the same time.

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1980s - 1990s - Breast cancer

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Her autobiography, And So It Goes, was published in 1986. She is planning to release a new book. According to The Book of Lists: The 90's Edition, Ellerbee went public that she had had an abortion.

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