Darla Miles ABC Bio Wiki Age Height Husband Husband Death Salary and Net Worth
Darla Miles is an American journalist currently working as a news reporter for WABC-TV at the Eyewitness News Team. She joined the station in 2009 as a general assignment reporter covering various international breaking news such as the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the attempted terror bombing in Times Square.
Prior to joining WABC, Darla worked for WFAA-TV in Dallas as an anchor and reporter and was nominated for a Lone Star Emmy Award.
She was born on November 23, 1972, in Ft. Worth, Texas,United States. Darla is50 years oldand celebrates her birthday onNovember 23every year.
She is a woman of average stature. Darla stands at a height of5 ft 6 in(Approx 1.68m).
She was born and brought up in Fort Worth, Texas, USA by her loving and supportive parents. Darla posed for a photo with her mother on her wedding day and posted it on her social media handles. Her fatherHoward Henrywas a high school football and basketball coach. In addition, he served as a mentor at the Fort Worth Independent School District for hundreds of kids in the 80s. Sadly, Darla’s dad died at the age of 86 on March 20, 2020. However, there is not much information available in regard to her mother or siblings.
She was married to her better half the lateBrent Jeffries. The couple exchanged their wedding vows in Texas at a private wedding ceremony. Darla posted photos of her wedding day on her social media handles and seemed happy and head over heels for the love of her life. She has rheumatoid arthritis and has gone through three heartbreaking miscarriages at the age of 41.
Sadly, three days after her third miscarriage, Darla’s husband Brent passed on. He died of a catastrophic stroke. Darla lost her husband at the age of 41 and has been coping with the grief of losing her husband and struggling with infertility.
She went through three miscarriages at the age of 41. Darla has considered adoption over the years and even began to complete her Homestudy to adopt a kid from foster care, which is something she still plans on pursuing. However, she has not lost hope of bearing her own kids despite being turned away by her fertility OB and being referred to as “too old” to use her own eggs. Darla finally managed to freeze three of her eggs in the bank with the help of a groundbreaking Chinese doctor.
She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in Spanish. Darla later joined Syracuse University to pursue her Spanish studies but did not graduate there. In addition, she also studied abroad where she enrolled at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, Spain.
Darla works as a news reporter for WABC-TV at the Eyewitness News Team. She joined the TV station in 2009 serving as a general assignment reporter and has covered various international breaking news such as the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the attempted terror bombing in Times Square. Before Darla joined WABC-TV, she served as an anchor and reporter at WFAA-TV and was also nominated for a Lone Star Emmy Award.
In addition, she also worked at WTVD-TV in Raleigh, as a reporter where her work on the rape investigation at the Duke University lacrosse was featured as an ABC World News exclusive on Good Morning America. Additionally, Darla also worked as the Aiken Burea Chief, reporter, and anchor at WJBF-TV in Augusta, Georgia. Her career journey commenced at WCLK Radio in Atlanta which led to an opening at ONDA Madrid Radio in Madrid, Spain.
Darla is fluent when it comes to Spanish and used her Spanish skills at CNN Radio Notícias. In addition, she was also part of the original team that Launched CNN en Español as a 24-hour network. At one point, Darla served as a weekend anchor for CNN Headline News. She is a member of various associations such as the National Association of Black Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Whenever she is free, she dedicates half of her free time to mentoring young African American Girls.
Some of Darla,s colleagues at ABC are:
Bill Ritter– Anchor
Shirleen Allicot-Anchor
Sam Ryan– Anchor
Lee Goldberg-Anchor
Darla is a native of Ft. Worth, Dallas, in Texas, and an American by nationality. She belongs to the African-American ethnicity.
Speculations have been made about Darla losing weight. However, despite these speculations, Darla has not revealed any information in regard to her weight loss or her following any weight loss programs. Therefore, we cannot tell whether she has indeed lost weight.
She receives quite a satisfactory amount from her work as a news reporter for ABC News. Darla’s average salary is$78,000 annually.
Having worked at WABC-TV as a general assignment reporter and currently a news reporter since 2009, Darla has managed to secure pretty good fortune in her career. Darla’s estimated net worth is$1 million.
She was married to her supportive husband the lateBrent Jeffries. However, Darla lost her husband at the age of 41 to a catastrophic stroke.
She is an American journalist currently working as a news reporter for WABC-TV at the Eyewitness News Team. Darla joined the network in 2009 serving as a general assignment reporter. Previously, she served as an anchor and reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas.
Darla is50 years old. She was born on November 23, 1972, in Ft. Worth, Texas, USA.