Name	Kathie Lee
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Date of Birth	August 16, 1953
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Gifford, born as Kathryn Lee Epstein in Paris, France, is the daughter of Joan (née Cuttell), a singer, and Aaron Epstein, a musician and U.S. naval officer stationed in France at the time. She grew up in Bowie, Maryland, attended Bowie High School and was a singer in a folk group, Pennsylvania Next Right, which performed frequently at school assemblies. Gifford attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, studying drama and music.

Her paternal grandfather was Jewish and her mother was a Methodist; Gifford grew up in a culturally Jewish environment, but she became a born-again Christian at the age of 12 (after seeing The Restless Ones, a Christian education film directed by Billy Graham), and told interviewer Larry King, "I was raised with many Jewish traditions and raised to be very grateful for my Jewish heritage." Her brother, Rev. David Paul Epstein, is an evangelical Baptist preacher and pastor of Calvary Baptist Church on West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

She has two children, Cody, 19, and Cassidy, 15.