Rachel Campos Duffy Bio, Wiki
Rachel Campos-Duffy was born on October 22nd, 1971. She is an American television personality also renown for being the wife of Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy. She first appeared on television in 1994 as a cast member on the MTV reality television series The Real World: San Francisco, before moving onto to work as a television host. She was a guest host on the ABC talk show The View, before moving onto Fox News, where she has guest-hosted the show Outnumbered.
Duffy has now announced that he is resigning from the seat in Congress that he’s held since 2010, citing family reasons.
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Rachel Campos Duffy Parents and Siblings
Rachel Campos was born in Tempe, Arizona, to her parents, Miguel Campos and Maria del Pilar. According to IMDB, Campos Duffy “grew up in a military family. Rachel’s father, Miguel, was a CMSgt in the Air Force. Her mother Pili is from Spain.
She has two brothers, one of whom is named Patrick Campos, and the other named Joseph Campos. Her sister, Leah Campos Schandlbauer, ran for Congress in Arizona in 2012. Campos and her sister were raised in a strict Catholic home. Campos’ grandparents emigrated to the United States from Mexico.
Rachel Campos Duffy Education
Rachel Campos graduated from Arizona State University in December 1993 with a degree in economics. She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, which she had planned to use to attend graduate school, with the goal of being a college professor. Campos earned a master’s degree in international affairs from the University of California, San Diego.
Rachel Campos Duffy Career
The Real World: San Francisco
Rachel Campos was cast on The Real World: San Francisco in January 1994 and lived in the house on Russian Hill in San Francisco with her six housemates from February 12th to June 19th. The season premiered on July 6th, 1994.
On the show and in MTV’s promotional materials for the show, Campos was depicted as a passionate Republican, whose heroes included Jack Kemp, and as a Catholic, though she conceded her strict religious upbringing fostered within her a rebellious streak that sometimes brought her into conflict with her parents. Her political viewpoints led to conflict with her housemates on more than one occasion, as when Mohammed Bilal ridiculed the Republican housing ideas that she expressed in Episode 3. In Episode 18, after Campos invited her housemates to a College Republicans function, self-described liberal Winick opined that the speakers at the function were sexist, homophobic, and racist, a view which Campos objected to as unfair.
In 1999 Campos filmed Road Rules: All-Stars, along with alumni of other past Real World seasons, such as Sean Duffy of the Real World: Boston cast, whom she would later marry.
Campos-Duffy was one of ten Real World alumni who starred in the 2003 film The Wedding Video, a Real World parody centered on the wedding of first season alumnus Norman Korpi.
After her stint on The Real World ended, while the fifth season of the show (set in Miami) was being filmed, Campos was involved in a head-on car collision after the driver of an oncoming vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. Campos’ boyfriend and his friend, who was driving their rented car, died in the accident. Campos was thrown out of the passenger-side window and sustained serious injuries to her right leg that caused permanent long-term problems such as arthritis, a limp and difficulty running.
The View
Rachel Compos thrice vied for a role on the daytime television talk show The View. After Debbie Matenopoulos left the show in 1999, Campos competed in an on-air try-out with Lisa Ling and Lauren Sánchez. Ling was eventually hired. After Ling’s departure in 2002, Campos—who by then held her own “coffee talk” show with other Wisconsin housewives—again competed in a week-long on-air try-out, this time against Erin Hershey Presley and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. In November 2003 Hasselbeck was hired to replace Lisa Ling. In July 2013 when Hasselbeck left The View to replace Gretchen Carlson as the female co-host of Fox & Friends, Campos once again tried out, but Jenny McCarthy was hired to fill the spot.
Fox News
On June 21st, 2018, during an appearance on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle, Campos-Duffy defended the Trump administration’s controversial practice of separating immigrant families arrested crossing the US border.
The National Review article reports that Rachel Campos-Duffy was a stay-at-home mother for 14 years. She told National Review that she wanted to help supplement the growing family’s income so she started writing and acting as a spokesperson for Libre Institute.
In 2017, Campos-Duffy praised Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte of Montana for physically assaulting Ben Jacobs, a reporter for The Guardian. The incident occurred when Gianforte grabbed Jacobs, threw him to the ground and punched him after Jacobs tried to interview him about the Republican health care plan, which Campos-Duffy called “Montana justice”
Other work
Campos-Duffy is the national spokesperson for the LIBRE Initiative, a non-profit organization, funded by the Koch Brothers, that promotes ideas about constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, economic stability, and free-market capitalism to the Hispanic community.
Campos-Duffy supported Scott Walker in the Republican primary for the 2016 presidential election.
Rachel Campos Books
Rachel Campos is the author of a children’s book called Paloma Wants to Be Lady Freedom (Regnery Kids, 2018). Her Young America’s Foundation biography says it “is a story about a little girl’s adventure inside the U.S. Capitol inspired by real-life events where she learns about patriotism, courage, and her immigrant father’s journey to citizenship.”
Rachel Campos Husband (Sean Duffy)
Rachel Campos married her Road Rules: All Stars costar Sean Duffy. They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin, where Duffy was the District Attorney of Ashland County. In 2011, Duffy became a Republican member of Congress for the 7th district of Wisconsin. The Duffys moved from Ashland to Weston, Wisconsin in late 2011, and in 2013, they moved to Wausau, Wisconsin so that Sean would be closer to an airport for his weekly commute to Washington, D.C. where he spends three or four days a week.
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Duffy, a Republican. announced that he is resigning from the seat in Congress that he’s held since 2010, citing family reasons. He confirmed the news himself, writing on Facebook on August 26th, 2019:
“Next to marrying Rachel, representing you – the people and families of Wisconsin’s 7th District – in Congress has been the highest honor of my life. Together, we have engaged in the most important battles of our time: protecting freedom of speech and religious liberty, taking care of our veterans, defending the unborn, and saving American jobs and American capitalism.
After eight and a half years, the time has come for me to focus more on the reason we fight these battles – family.”
Rachel Campos Duffy Children
Duffy and his wife, Rachel Campos have eight children with one on the way. Their children are Evita, Jack, Lucia-Belen, John-Paul, Paloma, Maria Victoria, Margarita, and Patrick Miguel. Campos Duffy’s Instagram profile reads, “Author, FOX News Contributor, Wife of hottest hubby, proud Mom of 8.”
In 2008, Campos-Duffy revealed that she suffered two miscarriages. Explaining to National Review what it’s like to have so many kids Rachel said; “We didn’t plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I’ve just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God. To be honest, this last one was kind of a surprise. I thought I was getting a little old. But apparently not!” she said to National Review.
Campos-Duffy wrote on Instagram that she was expecting the couple’s 9th child, writing, “Buckingham Palace isn’t the only one with big baby news …we found out God isn’t done with our family yet. Baby #9 coming this fall! Don’t tell us we’re crazy. We prefer brave and full of hope for America’s future!”
She explained that faith grounds her parenting and marriage, telling National Review: “My motto as a parent has always been that my job isn’t to get you into Harvard, it’s to get you into Heaven.”
He met his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is from Arizona, through the MTV show, “The Real World,” although they were on different seasons of it.
