Megyn Kelly’s road to the news
“There wasn’t a vacation I took when I wasn’t having faxes and FedExes literally sent to me on a beach in the Caribbean,” said Kelly, describing her stint as a lawyer.
Megyn Kelly never intended to become a journalist, said Greg Veis in GQ. The Fox News anchor started her career as an extra in exercise tapes. “It was an abs tape,” she says. “I got paid one whole dollar to be Backup Girl No. 1.” The daughter of a college professor, Kelly had bigger ambitions and went to law school, but after landing a job at a large firm, she found the work dreary and all-consuming. “There wasn’t a vacation I took when I wasn’t having faxes and FedExes literally sent to me on a beach in the Caribbean.” She knew she was done when she began having fantasies about injuring herself to get out of working. “One day I was driving home. It was 3 a.m. Tears were pouring down my face. I thought to myself, ‘What if I just had a car accident where I broke a bone?’”
She decided to try journalism because it seemed like there was “some nobility in it.” She’s nonetheless been accused of capitalizing on her looks by displaying her legs behind a glass table, but says there’s nothing wrong with being called “hot.” “It’s a visual business,” she says. “People want to see the anchor.”
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