Background
Kooiman grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where her parents still live and own businesses – Southeast Oasis Pool and the Peppermint Forest Christmas Shop.
Kooiman grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where her parents still live and own businesses – Southeast Oasis Pool and the Peppermint Forest Christmas Shop.
She serves as an anchor & reporter for Fox News Channel (FNC) based in New York City. Kooiman joined the network in 2011 and is host on FNC"s FOX & Friends. She also hosts Fox News Extra segments.
Of Dutch ancestry, she went to Myers Park High School (2002 graduate), where she played softball, and also played with the SouthPark Youth Association.
Kooiman"s early work in television broadcast journalism began with her working as a sideline reporter for Fox Sports during her college years at University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2004. After graduation, Kooiman continued her work as a reporter, anchor and video journalist for WWAY in Wilmington, North Carolina in 2005.
In January 2007 Kooiman moved to Toledo, Ohio and began working for the local National Broadcasting Company affiliate, WNWO, as morning anchor and reporter. In May 2008, Kooiman moved back to Charlotte, North Carolina to work as an Anchor/Reporter/Host for "Fox News Rising," a four-hour news and entertainment morning show on the then-FOX affiliate WCCB (as of 2013, WCCB became a CW-affiliated network).
While at WCCB-television, she reported on local news stories, entertainment, weather, and traffic.
In December 2011, her position changed to a Fox News Channel New York-based correspondent covering health and fitness as well as general assignment reporting. She has been ridiculed by various news outlets over comments she made on a "Fox and Friends" broadcast on 28th December 2014 that were interpreted as implying that pilot training in the metric system could explain the disappearance of flight Air Asia QZ8501. In a Twitter post, she cites a July 30, 1983 New York Times article to justify her earlier comments on the possible relationship of the metric system and the crash.