Background
Her father emigrated to the United States to pursue a career in medicine.
Her father emigrated to the United States to pursue a career in medicine.
She studied dancing and piano, and attended high school at Cor Jesu Academy.
Her previous jobs including being a special correspondent and media expert for television Guide Network and co-anchoring the 6 pm and 10 pm news on Los Angeles television station KTLA. She did that work from September 14, 2009 until late May 2010, when she left the show without any announcement by either her or KTLA. Prior to co-anchoring for KTLA, she was a correspondent and host on The Insider. Recaño is the oldest of four children and is of Filipino descent. Her mother was German-Hungarian.
At the age of 15 she auditioned for a kids" show on local station KPLR-television, called Team 11, that was seeking young people between the ages of 13 and 23 who could also sing, dance and act, for an after-school television variety show.
Recaño was chosen, and became one of four reporters on the show to produce news featurettes on subjects such as anorexia, depression, divorce, and the environment. After high school, Recaño attended Loyola University of Chicago, from which she graduated magna cum laude, receiving a bachelor"s degree in mass communications.
Her early goal had been to be a physician like her father, and her initial major was in biology, but she eventually decided to return to journalism. In 1996, she joined KPLR"s News at Nine as a general assignment reporter.
From 1998–2001, she was the news anchor for ZDTV, later renamed as TechTV News.
After ZDTV, she worked as an anchor and reporter for KNTV, the National Broadcasting Company affiliate in San Francisco. In July 2002, she joined Inside Edition. In 2004, she was named as a correspondent for the new television newsmagazine The Insider.
In May 2006, Recano appeared as herself in an episode of Computer Society of India: Miami, entitled "Shock".
In February 2008, Recano was a celebrity guest model on the game show Deal or Number Deal.
