Background
Whitworth was born, Kayna Logan Whitworth, on July 4, 1982, in Aurora, Colorado, to parents Rocky and Mary Whitworth, where she was raised with her younger brother, Kellen.
Whitworth was born, Kayna Logan Whitworth, on July 4, 1982, in Aurora, Colorado, to parents Rocky and Mary Whitworth, where she was raised with her younger brother, Kellen.
She has worked in Bend, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, Tucson, Arizona, and Boston, Massachusetts, before joining American Broadcasting Company News in Los Angeles in 2015. She was a 2001 Grandview High School graduate, where she went on from there to Colorado State University, obtaining her baccalaureate in communication and media studies, in 2005. She started her journalism career at KTVZ in Bend, Oregon as a reporter then an anchor, before moving on to become a reporter and anchor at KBOI-television located in Boise, Idaho.
Her career lead her to Tucson, Arizona, where she became an anchor at KOLD-television, then she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to WHDH in December 2012 as a weekday morning anchor.
This caught the attention of American Broadcasting Company News, who hired her in 2015, to be a Los Angeles, California-based correspondent, for the network.