Bay was born in
New York City,
New York. She attended
Dominican Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in New York, and graduated from
Phillips Academy in
Andover, Massachusetts. She attended the
University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, and earned her
MBA from the
New York University Stern School of Business. A former fashion model, she was represented by
Ford Models. She was a spokesperson for
Estée Lauder cosmetics from 1983 to 1989. Bay served as a correspondent for NBC's
Today Show. She was a co-anchor of
ABC's
Good Morning America Sunday for four years, and a correspondent for ABC's
World News Saturday and
World News Sunday. From
1991 to
1998, she was co-host with
Ahmad Rashad of
NBA Inside Stuff. She was an anchor for
CNN, hosting two primetime programs:
CNN & Entertainment Weekly and
CNN & Fortune, along with CNN's flagship financial news program,
Moneyline. She was a freelance anchor and correspondent for
MSNBC and
NBC News in 2005 and 2006. She was the executive producer and host of
Lifetime Television's Spotlight 25. Bay is the author of a book titled ''Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child's Questions About the World We Live In'' (2003). At the
Huffington Post, Bay served as a senior editor based in
Los Angeles. She has helped manage the expansion of non-political content and new verticals for the site. In collaboration with
Yahoo! News and the
Huffington Post, she interviewed
Warren Buffett and President
Bill Clinton for the Newsmaker series. In July 2024, Bay and her husband, Bob Iger, agreed to take a majority stake in
Angel City FC, a Los Angeles-based
National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) team, with a $100 million investment. On completion of the transaction, Bay will serve and control the board of ACFC and represent the club on the NWSL's board of governors.
Personal life Bay has two sons and two step-daughters with her husband,
Bob Iger, the ex-chairman and ex-
CEO of
The Walt Disney Company, whom she married in 1995, following his divorce in 1994. ==References==