Megyn celebrated her fifty-fifth birthday on Tuesday. As she shared on Instagram, it was sweet birthday shared with all of her MK Show listeners and viewers.
If you happened to tune into The Megyn Kelly Show on the special day, you heard her explain to guest Emily Jashinsky how the unusual spelling of her name came to be. As it turns out, Megyn’s mom Linda (despite already being a mom twice over) was not prepared to have to make decisions about her daughter’s moniker so soon.
Here’s how Megyn told it:
“Many years ago today, my mother, Linda, was giving birth to me. She had given no thought to how to spell my name. And when I was born, she said that she figured O-B-G-Y-N, M-E-G-Y-N. And that was that.
I talked to her this morning. She called as she always does on my birthday, and she told me a story about what happened when she went to the hospital to give birth to me. I was the third child, so the doctor said, ‘Oh, you’re going to give birth right away. You go to the fast lane because you’re on three of three.’ There were two other gals who were about to give birth to their first babies, and they had to go into the waiting area because they thought that was going to take forever.
Well, my mom went in early in the morning on November 17, and it was more than 24 hours later that I came out. So, they were wrong. I was a late arrival, and I have been kind of behaving that way ever since.”
Happy Birthday, MK!