Chirlane McCray was born on November 29, 1954 in Springfield, Massachusetts into an Afro-American family that had migrated from Barbados and St. Lucia.
Her father, Robert Hooper McCray, a World War II veteran, was an inventory clerk at a military base while her mother, Katharine Clarissa Eileen née Edwards, was an assembly worker at an electronics factory.
Both of them periodically suffered from depression.
Rather than being subdued by racial torments, Chirlane McCray had the resolve to confront her tormentor, creating poetry as an outlet for her hatred.
Chirlane McCray identified as a lesbian as a child and continued to do so until she met her husband, Bill de Blasio, who was working as an adviser to David Dinkins at the time. In 1994, they married.
The couple has two children called Dante and Chiara
Chirlane McCray height: How tall is Bill de Blasio’s wife?
Chirlane McCray stands at a height of 5 foot 3 inches.
