Publicly, Rosie O’Donnell declared her homosexual orientation in the year 2002 during her act in Ovarian Cancer Research benefit at Caroline’s Comedy Club. She has a quite colorful private life; she was married to Kelli Carpenter during 2004-2007 and has four children with her. She was then married to Michelle Rounds from 2012 to 2016 and the couple had one daughter.

Early Life

Roseann O’Donnell is native of Commack, Long Island, New York and has been born on March 21, 1962. She is the third of five children born to Roseann Teresa and Edward Joseph O’Donnell; her mother is a housewife while her father is an electrical engineer with the defense industry.

Born and grown in Commack, she has siblings and they spent most of their youthful days in Commack where she attended Commack High School in her high school days.

She was the home coming queen, prom queen, senior class president and at the same time a class clown. After she completed high school in 1980 she attended Dickinson College and transferred to the Boston University, and later dropped out of college.

Rosie O’Donnell’s Net Worth?

Rosie O’Donnell is an America comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, television personality, and author with the net worth of $80 million. Before breaking big time in popularity through Star Search in the mid-80s, Rosie O’Donnell has hosted Stand-Up Spotlight of VH1 and also entered into Gimmie a Break.

She then starred in such movies as “A League of Their Own”, “Sleepless in Seattle”, “Beautiful Girls”, “The Flintstones” and others. Her own talk show, ‘The Rosie O’Donnell Show’ went on aired in 1996 and became rather popular almost immediately. The program received many awards in the following years but she decided to leave the show in 2002.

Career

O’Donnell himself between 1979 and 1984 worked various clubs across the country to perform as stand-up comedian. Her first major opportunity was the show “Star Search” in 1984 on which the daughter of the host Ed McMahon.

It was after “Star Search” that she was being offered to guest appear in television sitcoms. Her first appearance was in 1986 as Nell Carter’s neighbor in ‘Gimme a Break!’ She worked as one of the veejays of the VH1 in 1988.

She hosted ‘Stand-up Spotlight’ on VH1. Her second sitcom, Stand by Your Man which was aired in Fox Network in 1992 did not do well on aired but this did not affect her since her movies career was slowly picking up.

Other Ventures

Apart from her numerous shows on TV and guest appearances, O’Donnell has tried her hand at such diverse fields as publishing, including children’s books, as well as the travel business. It was in 2000 that she aligned herself with the publishers of the monthly women’s magazine “McCall’s” which was turned into “Rosie’s McCall’s” or as can be more easily recognized as “Rosie”.

She resigned in September 2002 when that disagreement with the magazine’s publishers over editorial decisions occurred and the magazine ceased publication in the same year.