Inspirational Woman Of The Day: Giuliana Rancic

Giuliana Rancic (née DePandi; born August 17, 1974) is an Italian-American celebrity news personality. She is an anchor on E! News, the E! Network’s flagship entertainment news program.

In addition to her news anchoring duties, Rancic often co-hosts red carpet events for award shows, such as the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. On March 13, 2006, she was joined as anchor of E! News by Ryan Seacrest. She is the creator and executive producer of MTV’s Celebrity Rap Superstar, which premiered in 2007. She appeared in the movie Bring It On: Fight to the Finish in a brief scene. She also hosted the Miss USA 2011 beauty pageant on NBC. She is also the founder of FabFitFun, a woman’s health, beauty, and fashion site.

Giuliana Rancic was born in Italy. As a young girl, she immigrated to Bethesda, Maryland. She learned English by watching hours of news channels. She also said, on The E! True Hollywood Story, that from elementary school she had wanted to become an anchorwoman. After high school she went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s degree in journalism from American University, at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C. While there, she reported for a Capitol Hill news bureau, covering the Pentagon, theSupreme Court, the White House and the State Department.

On December 15, 2006, Bill Rancic and Giuliana announced their engagement. The two were married on September 1, 2007 in a ceremony on Capri at Santa Sophia Church in Anacapri.

The two have publicly discussed their fertility issues on television talk shows, having tried to conceive since approximately the beginning of 2009. The couple began in vitro fertilization (IVF) in March 2010, and Rancic got pregnant in the spring of 2010; however, she suffered a miscarriage at nine weeks. Rancic had an IVF transfer for a second time in November 2010, however the procedure did not result in a pregnancy. The couple was going to try for a third round of IVF, and her doctor recommends a mammogram, then that’s where she found out she had breast cancer. With this condition, the couple are still motivated to have a baby so they went on with the egg retrieval and got a surrogate.

On April 23, 2012, Giuliana and Bill announced on The Today Show that they were expecting their first child, via gestational carrier. The baby is due in late summer.

It was announced on June 17, 2012, that Giuliana and Bill are expecting a boy.

On October 17, 2011 during an interview on Today, Rancic announced she had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, for which she would be treated with a lumpectomy, followed by radiation. She underwent surgery in mid-October 2011 and returned to work at E! News about a week later. On December 5, 2011, Rancic disclosed she had decided to undergo a double mastectomy.