Kayleigh McEnany Net Worth: How Rich is the Fox News Host?

Kayleigh McEnany is a 33 years old American conservative political commentator. She is the former White House press secretary, who served under the Donald Trump administration from April 2020 to January 2021. Kayleigh is currently working for Fox News as an on-air contributor. As of 2023, Kayleigh McEnany net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

Early Life

Kayleigh McEnany was born in Tampa, Florida on April 18, 1988, to her parents Michael and Leanne McEnanay. She has studied at a private Catholic preparatory school named the Academy of the Holy Names.

After her school, she got enrolled at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she completed graduation in international politics. Then, she moved to London where she attended St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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Kayleigh learned politics at Oxford from the British academic and politician, Nick Thomas-Symonds. She later studied law at Harvard Law School and received the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence while studying at the Miami School of Law. McEnany came out holding a graduation degree from Harvard in 2016. While studying in college, she worked as an intern for well-known politicians such as George W. Bush, Adam Putnam, and Tom Gallagher.

McEnany had earlier served as a paid commentator on CNN. She came out as a supporter of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Though, she was highly critical of him in 2015. Kayleigh left her association with CNN in August 2017, and then, joined as host of the 90-second webcast “Real News Update”.

Kayleigh has been associated with the Republican party since her college days. As a republican, she stood against Obama’s presidency, where she once questioned Barack Obama’s birthplace.

On April 7, 2020, she was hired as White House press secretary in the Donald Trump presidency. She has supported and defended Donald Trump on his false accusation that political commentator, Joe Scarborough had a person murdered. She provided support to Trump offering no strong proof in support of the accusation.

Likewise, in June 2020, she came in a support of the Trump administration’s decision to forcibly remove peaceful dissenters using pepper balls, smoke canisters, batons, riot shields, batons, and rubber bullets.

During the 2020 presidential election, she spread false claims of fraud and false declaration of the victory of Joe Biden over Trump. She further claimed Donald Trump was not given an orderly transition of power on November 20, 2020. McEnany remained as a White House press secretary until January 2021, and on March 2021, she started a new journey as an on-air contributor on Fox News. Fox News later made her co-host of the daytime news and talk show “Outnumbered”.

Kayleigh McEnany’s Husband- Sean Gilmartin

Kayleigh McEnany has been married to a professional baseball pitcher, Sean Gilmartin since November 2017. From being a wife of a Major League Baseball pitcher, she has delivered a daughter, named Blake, who was born in November 2019. In 2018, she underwent a preventive double mastectomy to prevent a high risk of diagnosing breast cancer. 

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Celebrity Net Worth pegs Kayleigh McEnany’s net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. As a White House press secretary, she was receiving an annual salary of $183 thousand. McEnany must be receiving a good amount of money from Fox News; however, she has not yet disclosed her exact salary figure yet.