Robin Roberts, a journalist, grew raised in Mississippi and graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with a degree in communications in 1983.
She went on to work as a sports reporter and anchor for a Mississippi television station. Roberts began presenting ESPN’s Sportscenter at the age of 29 and soon after became a guest correspondent on Good Morning America.
What disease does Robin Roberts have?
Roberts has already been candid about her health.
Five years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare blood and bone marrow condition that required a bone marrow transplant.
She was recruited as a full-time co-anchor of the morning news program in 2005. Roberts took a leave of absence from Good Morning America in August 2012 to receive treatment for a rare blood disease she developed after having chemotherapy for breast cancer. On February 20, 2013, she returned to the program. Roberts publicly came out as a homosexual woman in early 2014.
