Who Are Carmen Rita Wong Parents? CNBC Journalist Family Details, Why She Has No Long Hair?
Carmen Rita Wong is the author of the book-cum-memoir “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?” where she chronicles her quest for identity following the upheaval caused by a DNA test.
The book talks about her realization that neither the father of Chinese descent her mother parted from nor the stepfather her mother later married is her biological fathers.
Besides carrying the author’s title, Wong is also a radio, television, online journalist, entrepreneur, and personal finance expert at CNBC’s reputed media firm. Holding a multitude of stature, Wong is sought-after by the Internet.
Moreover, after the release of her book “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?” in 2022, people are pretty impressed with Wong. It is because of how artistically she wrote about her life’s most significant turning point. In the book, she reveals that the two father figures her mother brought into her life weren’t her biological fathers.
In this article, let us run through the family details of Carmen Rita Wong.
Who Is Carmen Rita Wong’s Biological Father And Mother?
Carmen Rita Wong was born to her mother, Guadalupe A. Giannotti, and father, Peter Wong, who she always thought were her biological parents.
After her mother divorced her Chinese-descent father, Peter, her mother married another Italian American man, Charles J. Giannotti, and moved Carmen to their new residence in New Hampshire. It all happened before Carmen went to elementary school.
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While a toddler, Wong lived with her mother and her mother’s side of the family in Harlem. Co-parenting then, we guess, Peter Wong would sometimes take Wong and her brother to Chinatown for meals. Her mother assured Wong that Peter Wong was her biological father since she was young, given her last name as well. She was completely unaware that her mother had been hiding the truth about her biological father from the beginning till the end.
Carmen Rita Wong DNA Test Report
The result of the DNA test report in pursuit of identifying Carmen’s biological father between Charles J. Giannotti and Peter Wong gave rise to Carmen’s memoir “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?”.
Relocating to New Hampshire in Charles, Wong’s stepfather’s house, she wrote in her book that she had to go through racial spites initiated by her teachers, friends, and even police officers. Even after achieving good academic results on her own and with the help of her mother, the teachers would quote “she must get it from her Chinese side” to her mother at the parent-teacher conferences.
Carmen was building a survival strategy of her own despite all the identity crises she experienced until a secret turned her world upside down. When her mother died of cancer, her stepfather disclosed that he was her biological father. The reveal was very confusing to her until she did a DNA test, revealing that neither her stepfather nor Peter Wong was her biological father.
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She was left with a burden of identity crisis after her mother died of cancer. Her book “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?” is a question to her mother for keeping her in the shadows of lies for a long time.
More Details On The Journalist’s Family- Are They Nonagenarian?
Wong’s mother has already passed away because of cancer, so she cannot be a nonagenarian, age group of 90 to 99, and because her biological father is unknown, we cannot put age-based labels on that.
However, The New York Times has included the name of Charles J. Giannotti as the father of Carmen R. Wong while writing on Carmen’s marriage to Lawrence Ulrich in 2005. Furthermore, as seen in her Twitter post, she also refers to Peter Wong as Papi. It seems she addresses both her father-like figures as fathers. So, leading the discussion to whether her father-like figures are nonagenarian or not, there are fewer chances that they might be. Because Carmen is 48 at present (2022), there is less chance that the age gap between her and her father-like figures would be 40.
To add more to her family details, Carmen has an older brother and four younger sisters. Carmen also has a daughter of her own, Bianca, born in 2006.
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People are also curious to know why Carmen has no long hair. She has her hair cut short and dyed blonde. It is quite a personal question/choice that no one prioritizes to come upfront with, so we cannot tell why the journalist has no long hair.
