Jennifer Ashton First Husband: Who Was Robert Ashton?

Jennifer Lee Garfein Ashton was born on April 23, 1969, and is a physician, author, and television correspondent.

She is the chief health and medical editor and chief medical correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America, the chief women’s health correspondent for The Dr. Oz Show, and a columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Dr. Ashton is also a regular contributor to the ABC daytime program GMA3: What You Need to Know. She is also a frequent guest speaker and moderator for events raising awareness of women’s health issues.

Ashton was born in California to Oscar Garfein, a New York City cardiologist, and Dorothy Garfein, a registered nurse. Her brother, Evan Garfein, is the chief of plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.

She attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York City, where she studied French and English.

In 1991, she graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, with a bachelor’s degree in art history.

She received her medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2000.

In 2016, she received her master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University.

Jennifer Ashton First Husband: Who Was Robert Ashton?

On August 31, 1996, Jennifer married Robert Ashton Jr, a thoracic and cardiac surgeon, and later had two children, Chloë and Alex. They divorced in January 2017. On February 11, 2017, two weeks after the divorce was finalized, Robert, 52, died by suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge