Meet Michael Strahan’s 4 kids, Tanita, Michael, Isabella and Sophia — plus his first grandson

Michael Strahan’s household is rising!

The Good Morning America anchor, 52, just lately turned a grandfather for the primary time, when his eldest daughter Tanita Strahan welcomed her first little one, a child son she has named Onyx.

Throughout an look on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon shortly after he broke the information, he admitted that he did not “really feel sufficiently old” to turn out to be a grandfather, however nonetheless maintained: “It is probably the most wonderful feeling.”

The previous New York Giants star was solely 20 years outdated when he welcomed Tanita along with his ex-wife Wanda Hutchins, to whom he was married from 1992 to 1996.

He went on to welcome three different kids, Michael Jr., who he additionally shares with Wanda, and twins Isabella and Sophia, who he shares with Jean Muggli, his spouse from 1999 to 2006. Be taught all about them beneath.

Tanita, 32

Tanita was born on November 10, 1991 in Germany, the place her father Michael, whose dad was stationed within the nation, and mom met as teenagers.

Although the household ultimately moved to Houston, the place Michael is initially from, she then moved again to Germany along with her mother and youthful brother Michael Jr., the place they spent their childhood, following their dad and mom’ divorce.

She then moved again to Houston, the place she completed highschool, moved to Los Angeles to check on the Trend Institute of Design and Merchandising, and after a quick stint again in Texas, per her Instagram bio, she remains to be based mostly in Los Angeles, working as an illustrator.

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Although she retains her private life largely out of the highlight, she has been in a relationship with boyfriend Calenta Mincey, additionally an artist, for at the least 4 years, with whom she shares her first little one.

Michael Jr., 30

Michael’s solely son, his mini-me and namesake Michael Jr., was born on September 12, 1994, additionally in Germany. Like his sister, he spent his childhood in Germany earlier than shifting again to Houston in his teenagers. 

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For school, he went to the College of Texas in San Antonio, nevertheless since then, he has led a largely personal life away from the highlight, and little is thought about each his skilled and private life.

Isabella, 19

Following his 1999 marriage to Jean, Michael welcomed twin daughters Isabella and Sophia on October 28, 2004. They spent their childhood between North Carolina and North Dakota (although their dad performed with the New York Giants till 2008), and ultimately attended highschool in New York Metropolis, after Michael turned Kelly Ripa’s co-host on LIVE in 2012 and later a Good Morning America anchor in 2016.

In July 2023, Isabella graduated from Covenant of the Sacred Coronary heart, a personal all-girls faculty within the Higher East Facet, and went on to begin her freshman 12 months of school on the College of Southern California in Los Angeles.

A pair months into her first 12 months nevertheless, in October, Isabella was recognized with medulloblastoma, the most typical kind of cancerous mind tumor in kids, which first stems from the decrease again a part of the mind, the cerebellum.

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She shared the information throughout a joint look along with her dad on GMA, and talking along with his co-host Robin Roberts, she shared that her first signs have been merely complications, although it then advanced into nausea, and he or she “could not stroll straight.” Issues took a flip for the more severe later that month, and he or she recalled: “I wakened, in all probability at like, 1 p.m. I dreaded waking up. However I used to be throwing up blood.” She added: “I used to be like, ‘Hm, this in all probability is not good.’ So I texted [my sister], who then notified the entire household.”

After present process a number of surgical procedures, radiation and chemotherapy at Duke Youngsters’s Hospital in North Carolina, Isabella introduced in the summertime of 2024 that she was formally most cancers free, and headed again to highschool.

Sophia, 19

Earlier than completely shifting to New York Metropolis, each Sophia and Isabella turned aggressive horse riders. As soon as within the metropolis, the ladies went to excessive colleges on reverse sides of Manhattan, as Sophia graduated from Trinity College, a co-ed personal faculty within the Higher West Facet, and he or she has since gone on to school at Duke College.

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Throughout an look on The View in July 2023, Michael, as he was changing into an empty-nester, shared: “Sophia goes to Duke, Isabella goes to USC. [They are] their first decisions of college, they usually labored actually laborious,” earlier than sustaining: “I am very pleased with them, I am a contented father.”

“They’re very removed from one another, however they went to separate excessive colleges, since tenth grade,” he defined, and famous: “They’ve utterly separate units of pals, although they’re nice pals with one another.”