Who Is Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Wife, Rebecca Olson Gupta?
We all know Dr. Sanjay Gupta as a neurosurgeon and for his smooth delivery of health news as CNN's chief medical correspondent, but he keeps his personal life out of the spotlight.
Dr. Gupta opened up about his proposal to wife Rebecca Olson Gupta in a January 2015 interview with InStyle, telling the outlet, "I wrote her a poem and in the last line asked her to marry me," he said. "Watching her read it, I was very nervous-it was over a page long." She added, "He was down on one knee and asking me to marry him before I even got to the end!" They married in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina on May 15, 2004, according to The Sun. The couple participated in several Hindu rituals, including the mangal pheras, where the couple moves around a holy fire four times. Per InStyle, whoever sits down first rules the marriage. "Rebecca won that one," Dr. Gupta said.
It's clear these two are forever living in the honeymoon stage, but have you ever wondered who Dr. Gupta's wife actually is? Keep reading for more details.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta's wife, Rebecca Olson Gupta, is a lawyer
Rebecca Olson Gupta doesn't ride her husband Dr. Sanjay Gupta's coattails — she's been practicing family law for roughly 20 years, according to The Sun.
Rebecca grew up in Novi, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan and later earned her J.D. from the University of South Carolina-Columbia, per the outlet. She and her husband are also parents to three daughters. Rebecca seems supportive of Sanjay, and he revealed in an October 2013 Parade interview that she helped him transition to speaking on camera. "Early on, she told me, 'You should just pretend you're talking to your patients,'" he said. "I was comfortable in that role, and it set the right level of language and empathy."
Dr. Gupta and his wife also spoke on his "Chasing Life" podcast (via CNN) in May, where they discussed how the coronavirus pandemic impacted their family. "There are some good things — we've managed to find ways to, as a family, be a family and laugh and entertain ourselves in ways that we hadn't before. And it's made us become creative in our own way. And hopefully, we hold on to those," she said.