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  • By now, most Americans know Megyn Kelly as "That Fox News anchor who went after Donald

  • Trump."

  • "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.'"

  • "Only Rosie O'Donnell."

  • But she also happens to be the biggest rising star the network has seen since the early

  • days of Bill O'Reilly.

  • As her star continues to rapidly rise, we're dishing out some interesting details you may

  • have missed about the host of The Kelly File.

  • Here are some things you didn't know about Megyn Kelly.

  • She's an Independent

  • In a 2015 cover story for Variety, Kelly confirmed that she is a registered Independent.

  • The news came as a bit of a surprise, considering she works for Fox News, which tends to swing

  • decidedly to the Right.

  • She told the magazine,

  • "I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans.

  • I'm not rooting for anybody.

  • I'm a Fox News anchor, and I have no horse in the race.

  • I can give anyone a hard time."

  • She's been married twice

  • Kelly married Dr. Dan Kendall, an anesthesiologist and pain management physician in 2001.

  • They divorced amicably in 2006, according to an interview Kendall gave to The Daily

  • Mail, saying,

  • "I wanted a wife and she wanted a wifewe both needed someone to cook and clean and

  • support us.

  • She has very much a Type A personality.

  • I couldn't imagine her staying at home.

  • She needed more of a Type B husband.

  • Sometimes with two professionals it doesn't work out, we were both working extremely hard

  • and both excelling at what we did."

  • Kelly married her second husband, novelist Douglas Brunt, in 2008.

  • They have three children together: Thatcher, Edward, and Yardley.

  • Oprah is her role model

  • For someone as ambitious and successful as Kelly, it's no wonder that her role model

  • is a powerful woman.

  • Speaking to Vanity Fair in February 2016, Kelly revealed the person she looks up to

  • the most is Oprah Winfrey.

  • "In all her years coming upshe never wallowed in any sort of victimhoodShe didn't play

  • the gender card and she didn't play the race card.

  • She was just so good we couldn't ignore her.

  • That's my exampleJust get to the table and then do better than everybody else."

  • Former lawyer

  • Although she's a powerful journalist today, Kelly actually began her professional career

  • as a lawyer.

  • Ironically enough, the decision to pursue the law came after she was rejected from Syracuse

  • University's communications program.

  • She pursued political science instead and wound up graduating from Albany Law School.

  • According to Vanity Fair, Kelly admits she had a change of heart about the law while

  • she was on the partner track at a prestigious firm in Chicago, saying,

  • "I had this little voice in me saying, 'I am more interesting than this.

  • I am more interested than this."

  • From that point on, she began to pursue a career in broadcast journalism.

  • Or, as we know it today, professional news bickering.

  • "Those are the facts, but that isn't here or there."

  • "Stop.

  • Stop.

  • No.

  • Stop it.

  • Hold on Richard.

  • Hold on.

  • I'm gonna give you the floor, but you've gotta stay on point."

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