Vanessa Joy Lachey is an American actress, beauty pageant titleholder, and television host who won the Miss Teen USA title in 1998.
She has worked as a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and hosted Total Request Live on MTV.
Lachey has also starred in two network sitcoms and hosted various competitions and reality shows. Recently, CBS announced that Lachey would be playing the lead role in the spinoff series NCIS: Hawaiʻi.
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Quick Stats
Real Name | Vanessa Lachey |
Date of birth | November 9, 1980 |
Place of birth | Angeles City, Philippines |
Age | 42 years old. |
Net Worth 2023 | $25 million |
Height | 5 feet 7 inches |
Weight | 51 kg |
Hair color | Black |
Vanessa Lachey Age
Vanessa Lachey, also known as Vanessa Joy Minnillo, was born on November 9, 1980. She is currently 42 years old.
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born in Angeles City, Philippines, at the 13th Air Force Regional Medical Center in Clark Air Base. However, she is American by nationality and of Italian and Irish descent.
Vanessa Lachey Family
Vincent Charles Minnillo, her father, is an American citizen of Italian and Irish descent from Cleveland, Ohio. While her mother, Helen Ramos Bercero, is from Manila, Philippines. However, details regarding her grandparents and ancestors are unknown yet.
Vanessa Lachey’s Parent’s Separation
In 1983, Minnillo’s parents separated, and they finalized their divorce in 1986. Her mother left the family when Vanessa was nine years old.
Afterward, Minnillo’s parents both remarried. She and her brother Vincent Jr. went to Turkey with their mother and stepfather.
By 1991, they returned to their father’s home after Operation Desert Shield. Eventually, they settled in Charleston, South Carolina. Minnillo attended the Roman Catholic Bishop England school as a cheerleader.
Minnillo lived with her father and stepmother, Donna, from then on. She has commented that she had “a very rocky, tumultuous childhood.”
Additionally, she attended Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School in San Bernardino, California, for one year.
Vanessa Lachey Career
In 1998, Lachey won the titles of Miss South Carolina Teen USA and Miss Teen USA.
She was the first Miss Teen USA from South Carolina and the first person from the state to win the Miss Congeniality title in the pageant.
Lachey hosted both programs MTV’s The Morning After (2003) and Total Request Live (2003–2007).
Lachey began working as a New York City correspondent for Entertainment Tonight in 2005. Additionally, she hosted the Miss Teen USA 2004 and Miss Universe 2007 beauty pageants.
Vanessa Lachey Relationship Status
In 2006, after appearing in the video “What’s Left of Me,” singer Nick Lachey began dating her.
The couple engaged in November 2010 and tied the knot on July 15, 2011, at Sir Richard Branson’s private Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. The couple has three children.
Vanessa Lachey Kids
Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the hosts of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind,” are the devoted parents of three adorable kids. They always make time for their kids, Camden, Brooklyn, and Phoenix. Currently, Camden is 10 years old, Phoenix is 6 years old and Brooklyn is 8 years old.
Vanessa Lachey’s Physical Appearance
Vanessa Lachey has a height of around 5 feet 7 inches or 170 cm (1.70 m) and maintains her figure by weighing about 51 kg or 112 pounds. She has black hair and black eyes.
Vanessa Lachey Net Worth
Vanessa Minnillo, also known as Vanessa Lachey, possesses a net worth of $25 million. She has acquired this wealth through her work as an American tv personality, television host, fashion model, and actress.
It should be noted that this net worth is a joint amount shared with her husband, Nick Lachey.