Jeannie Gaffigan – Bio, Kids, Facts About Jim Gaffigan’s Wife
Jeannie Gaffigan was born on March 9, 1970, as Jeanne Louise Noth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. She is the eldest of nine children born to a Milwaukee Journal film and theater critic. Of her eight siblings, only two have their identity available to the media – Paul and Patrick Noth. Jeannie co-produced Pale Force with the two who both have careers in the entertainment industry as cartoonist and comedy writer respectively.
Jeannie Gaffigan completed her education at the Marquette University in 1992. She soon after started a career in theater as a stage actress in her locality. She later left for New York to find better opportunities. On getting to New York, she initially landed small jobs in amateur comedy troupes and small-scale theater companies. The exposure, however, trained Jeannie who would later become a producer as the groups/theaters she worked with usually made original productions.
Jeannie later created “Shakespeare on the Playground”, a non-profit theater company that focused on making stage productions of Shakespearean plays in full. She used the medium to teach community youths how to read and write as well as produce plays. She subsequently started writing and producing her own comedy skits alongside her boyfriend, James Christopher “Jim” Gaffigan who would later become her husband. The duo later married on 26th July 2003.
The couple gradually developed their writing and production skills, turning it into something significant – comedy specials. So far, Jeannie and Jim have co-written and co-produced five comedy specials with the former directing the fifth special. Their career continued to grow until 2013 when they produced the TV Land television program, The Jim Gaffigan Show.
Brain Tumour
It was a really trying time for Jeannie Gaffigan and her family when in April 2017 she was diagnosed with a brain tumor called papilloma of the choroid plexus. Although she had earlier noticed some strange symptoms like headaches and dizziness, she dismissed them for stress considering her very busy life as a mother of five.
However, when she mentioned the issue, particularly a newly developed and scarier symptom of hearing impairment during a routine appointment with her kids’ pediatrician, the doctor recommended diagnoses which revealed her problem. Fortunately for her, the growing tumor was still in its benign stage and she successfully underwent a craniotomy on April 18 of the same year at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.
The recovery process was, however, a very long and daunting one as some of the surgery aftermath included Jeannie’s inability to walk, as well as having to consume only liquids through a feeding tube. Some complications also arose from the surgery including paralysis of one of her vocal cords. Owing to this, Jeannie has to live with a speech and swallow therapy, with her voice dwindling as the day progresses, and vanishing later in the day. All the same, everyone is grateful she is alive.
