Sandra Smith was perhaps always destined to pursue a career in business. As the Fox News host recalled to Politico in 2015, she grew up in Wheaton, Illinois in a family of traders. And her father, in particular, was keen to get her immersed in the world of stocks and shares from a very young age.
Smith, who was a year into her hosting gig on "Outnumbered" at the time of the interview, said, "My dad brought me down to the trading floor as a little kid. I always took to finance, I always took to money, I always took to business. I studied it in college. It wasn't always my intention to be on television, but it sort of happened that way. I started trading, started going on television, and it was just a natural progression into what I am doing now."
Bringing things neatly full circle, Smith ended up reporting at the very same marketplace her pop used to take her as a youngster, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The "America's Newsroom" host had explained to Alister & Paine in 2012, "He was an integral part in introducing me to business and finance. I was the youngest of six kids, one of five girls. He was really good at showing each one of us what he did and what was going on downtown."
