Who Are Rachel Maddow's Parents? Inside Her Conservative Upbringing

Rachel Maddow's Parents Were Very Catholic, and She Grew up "Very Conservative"

Nov. 20 2020, Published 2:14 p.m. ET

Over her years at the air, Rachel Maddow has proven to be a compelling recommend for a wide variety of liberal causes. Among those who enjoy watching MSNBC, Rachel is one of the maximum liked hosts, partially as a result of she seems so keen to mention precisely what she's thinking. Although many of her fanatics are aware of her work on TV, fewer know the way her upbringing and her parents formed her worldview. 

Who are Rachel Maddow's parents?

Rachel was born to Robert and Elaine Maddow in 1973 in Castro Valley, Calif. Robert was an Air Force captain who resigned his fee the 12 months earlier than his daughter was born. He went directly to work as a attorney for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. Elaine worked as a college program administrator. Rachel also has an older brother named David. 

Although her father's facet of the family got here from Ashkenazi Jews, Rachel has mentioned that she was raised in a Catholic household, and her mom described her upbringing as 'very conservative.' That conservative upbringing didn't ultimately dictate the course of Rachel's political occupation, but it surely did create a messy situation when it got here time for her parents to find that she used to be homosexual.

Rachel was actually outed by means of her faculty newspaper at Stanford University during her freshman year. She did an interview with the paper together with a friend about how they were the one two out gay folks in the entire freshman elegance. She advised the paper that she hadn't pop out to her parents but, and asked that they hold the interview until she may tell them herself. 

Unfortunately, the timeline didn't rather figure out that means, and Rachel's parents wound up learning about their daughter's sexuality from her college newspaper. "They would have had a hard time with me coming out anyway, but this was a particularly nasty way for them to find out," Rachel wrote after the reality in The Daily Beast. "They’re wonderful now, and couldn’t be more supportive, but they took it poorly at first, which I don’t fault them for."

Rachel Maddow's partner has COVID-19.

Now that her parents are more supportive of her sexuality, Rachel has every so often been keen to get candid about her personal lifestyles with her viewers. In a recent segment, she mentioned her partner Susan Mikula's fight fighting COVID-19. Earlier this month, Rachel had introduced that she would be quarantining after she got here into "close contact" with anyone who tested certain. 

"Susan has been sick with COVID these past couple of weeks," she said all the way through her display. "And, at one point, we really thought that there was a possibility that it might kill her. And that's why I've been away. Susan tested positive two weeks ago, we separated from each other that day because I tested negative ... so she and I have both been alone since then."

"She had gotten sicker and sicker, while I tried to care for her while still staying physically apart from her," Rachel added. "And the bottom line is that she's gonna be fine. She is recovering. She's still sick, but she's gonna be okay and we're not scared anymore like we were."

She concluded by way of urging viewers to watch out, and explaining how severe COVID may well be. 

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