Who are Barbara Walters' children? Late TV icon's adopted daughter Jacqueline Guber was booked for DUI
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Trailblazer Barbara Walters shared an illustrious groundbreaking career that spanned several decades. America's beloved star journalist died peacefully at her home surrounded by loved ones at age 93 on Friday, December 30. The broadcast pioneer is known to have paved the way for many women in the news industry by becoming the first female news anchor.
Barbara Walters hosted numerous television shows and interviewed an immeasurable number of celebrities and heads of state during her more than 50 years on television. She was the first woman to host ABC Evening News in 1976 and further on she went on to co-host '20/20' before creating and co-hosting 'The View' in 1997, a successful daytime talk show that has been on the air for over 20 years. Although Walters had an exceptionally successful career, the legendary television personality also shared a rather unique and extraordinary personal life, with four marriages, three husbands, and rough motherhood.
READ MORE
Fans mourn Coolio after legendary 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper died at 59
Walters married four times to three husbands, one of whom she married twice. However, the star had her child from her second marriage to Lee Guber. Walters and Guber married on December 8, 1963, and explored the options of having children. But sadly, they struggled to have a child on their own, which lead them down the path of adoption. When the couple's friends were looking to adopt a boy and were offered a girl, Walters and Guber grabbed the opportunity. They adopted an infant girl child, Jacqueline Dena Guber, in 1968. However, Walters and Guber divorced after 13 years of marriage in 1976 when their daughter was just eight years old.
“We had dinner one night with a couple we rarely saw. The woman said that she had [the opportunity to adopt] a little girl who was blonde and blue eyed," Walters recalled in the Huffington Post article. Walters named her child after the two most important personalities in her life - her mother Dena and her sister Jacqueline. “To be Jacqueline…is a very special person,” Walters said in an interview in 2003. “In that way, perhaps it’s like me, her mother. And she says, ‘You see, I take after you.’ Whenever she says that, I’m so touched," reported Opoyi.
In a 2013 interview, Walters told Piers Morgan that she regretted not having more children. "I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. I have one daughter," she told Morgan. The same year Jacqueline was arrested for driving under the influence in Naples, Florida. According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, she was released on bail after posting a $1,000 bond.