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PostPosted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:37 am 
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Meteorologist Ginger Zee details Chicago struggles in new book
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Ginger Zee attends a Women's Health party Aug. 9, 2014, in Bridgehampton, N.Y. (Paul Zimmerman / Getty Images)
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As her five-year stint in Chicago at WMAQ-Ch. 5 came to an end in 2011, meteorologist Ginger Zee drank wine before work shifts in her dark studio apartment as she sunk into a Cabernet-soaked depression.

The 36-year-old ABC News chief meteorologist covers her dismal time in Chicago in her memoir “Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One,” out Tuesday.

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Zee writes about her rocky move from Western Michigan to Chicago in 2006; her secret romance with an unnamed Chicago political source who turned out to be engaged to another woman; her struggle with body-shaming feedback from WMAQ viewers; and her memories of a night that left her crying and drunk under a West Loop bridge.

“It’s not the city's fault because it's a wonderful city and I love it there, and I've got family there,” Zee said in a phone interview. “It just was the time in my life and some of the circumstances and the choices that I made and then, obviously, the mental illness that I was battling. And so the combination of all those things just came into that place, and I wasn't getting the help that I should have because I wasn't seeking it properly.”

Zee said she checked herself into a mental inpatient facility days before starting work at ABC to deal with depression, suicidal thoughts and an emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend.

The secrets Zee spills in the book — which she calls the “watered-down version” — may surprise some fans. The Valparaiso University graduate seemed to float easily from working weekends at WMAQ to forecasting weather on “Good Morning America" and finishing third on last year’s 22nd season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

“People see me for 30 seconds at a time and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together and they’re looking all right in the world, but it's not. We don't all have perfect lives, even if they are seemingly so,” Zee said. “So (the book) is kind of the anti-Instagram and the big theme here is depression. And that's one of those topics that I was embarrassed and not honest with myself for years about, and I hope that this book can open up a conversation between people saying, ‘You know what? I have those feelings too.’ ”

Life has changed considerably for Zee since she moved to New York. She’s been married to TV personality Ben Aaron, whom she met through former WFLD-Ch. 32 meteorologist Amy Freeze, for more than three years. Zee gave birth to their first son in December 2015. Their second son is due in February.

Zee — who shortened her last name from Zuidgeest early in her career — also hosts the ABC News digital series “Food Forecast." She’s scheduled to discuss her book Friday on "The View," which airs at 10 a.m. weekdays on WLS-Ch. 7


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Chris Rongey, to Ginger Zee, on hourly voicemails wrote:
You're a buffoon.

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Who had him in the harassment pool?

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ya think?! the guy is obviously a psychopath.

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Curious Hair wrote:
Chris Rongey, to Ginger Zee, on hourly voicemails wrote:
You're a buffoon.



Maybe Ginger was a Sox fan.

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She left him for Timmer didn't she?


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She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.

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She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.

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Chus wrote:
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She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:

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One of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard on WSCR was when Leery had Ginger on so he could dispel "all these rumors going around" that they were dating.


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One of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard on WSCR was when Leery had Ginger on so he could dispel "all these rumors going around" that they were dating.


Why should she be able to capitalize on rumors co-opting Laurence's fame?

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:


Ginger Zee takes pounding loves Reed Timmer sex big tits


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Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?

I miss Storm Chasers. I know Reed still technically "chases" for Accuweather, but he isn't using the Dominator anymore

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:

well he did drive her around in "The Dominator"

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W_Z wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:


Ginger Zee takes pounding loves Reed Timmer sex big tits



(Titty) Twister: While chasing storms across the Midwest, Ginger Zee gets gang-banged by Reed Timmer, Tom Skilling, and Jerry Taft. It sounded like a train.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
W_Z wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:


Ginger Zee takes pounding loves Reed Timmer sex big tits



(Titty) Twister: While chasing storms across the Midwest, Ginger Zee gets gang-banged by Reed Timmer, Tom Skilling, and Jerry Taft. It sounded like a train.


A train that left poor Pete Sack alone and sad. Poor Pete.

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Who is the political figure she was banging?

Zee isn't her real name?

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:54 am 
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:

well he did drive her around in "The Dominator"

I'd put him ahead of Rongey as the culprit. Yeah Rongey is a man whoring frat boy, but have you seen Timmer? Same industry, ego the size of D3. I could easily see him belittling her.


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She sounds completely cured.

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Who is the political figure she was banging?

Zee isn't her real name?

Image


No inside information but I'll just speculate: Alexi Gianoulias.

Still, its my guess Ginger would munch the transitioning Pritzker if it increased her Q rating and income.

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No inside information but I'll just speculate: Alexi Gianoulias.


I'd say that's a good guess.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
W_Z wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:


Ginger Zee takes pounding loves Reed Timmer sex big tits



(Titty) Twister: While chasing storms across the Midwest, Ginger Zee gets gang-banged by Reed Timmer, Tom Skilling, and Jerry Taft. It sounded like a train.


Although he’s not a meteorologist, we need to cast Dick Johnson in this. Although that would be redundant.


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
No inside information but I'll just speculate: Alexi Gianoulias.


I'd say that's a good guess.


She was counting up that ill begotten cash as if it was hers and then BOOM, back to the minor leagues of D list celebrity and sticky casting couches. That's the kind of trauma that sends some women to drink.

It has to be someone with enough extrapolitical ability to intimidate as you know that one would open her yap if she didn't fear being put in a trunk.

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Although he’s not a meteorologist, we need to cast Dick Johnson in this. Although that would be redundant.


Dick would just stand in the corner mumbling names and furiously masturbating.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
W_Z wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Chus wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Baby McNown wrote:
She left him for Timmer didn't she?


Yes.


Reed Timmer sounds like a pornstar.


Not as much as Ginger Zee. :lol:


Ginger Zee takes pounding loves Reed Timmer sex big tits



(Titty) Twister: While chasing storms across the Midwest, Ginger Zee gets gang-banged by Reed Timmer, Tom Skilling, and Jerry Taft. It sounded like a train.




Im sure Taft would be down, Skilling no chance..Skilling is into men only.

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Zee — who shortened her last name from Zuidgeest early in her career


I know such things are common in the industry, but did she really think viewers would be like "I ain't gettin' my forecasts from no damned Dutchwoman!" in the 21st century?


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Tad Queasy wrote:
One of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard on WSCR was when Leery had Ginger on so he could dispel "all these rumors going around" that they were dating.



:lol: :lol: :lol: Was this a bit?

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Tad Queasy wrote:
One of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard on WSCR was when Leery had Ginger on so he could dispel "all these rumors going around" that they were dating.



:lol: :lol: :lol: Was this a bit?


It was real. I heard it.

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