MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur Is a Proud Mom and Stepmom — Meet Her Blended Family

Journalist Katy Tur has been on MSNBC since 2009 and has been the anchor of her show, Katy Tur Reports, since 2021. Along the way, she has fallen in love, marrying fellow journalist Tony Dokoupil in 2017 and becoming a mother.

"I thought my life changed after the first baby. I thought it was the hardest thing I could have ever done. And then I had the second baby, and I realized that having one is a cakewalk," Katy told Babe.

"So in my house, there’s never any rest. Somebody’s always taking care of one of the kids. We also have two older kids. So the house over the summer gets really wild. It’s total madness."

Here is everything you need to know about Katy's blended family.

Katy and Tony welcomed their first child together — Theodore, who they affectionately call “Teddy” — in 2019, and their daughter, Eloise, was born in May 2021.

Katy is also the proud stepmom of two of Tony's kids from a previous relationship.

In 2019, Katy opened up about the need for mandatory paid family leave in the United States.

"Being a mom has made me a better reporter," Katy said. "The majority of the women in this country don't have paid leave at all, let alone five months. So when I came back, I wanted to make a point that it's not extremes — it's difficult for everybody to have a kid. And paid parental leave is not just good for the baby, but the mother, the partner, the family, the baby, the town, the society, and the country."

She also revealed that her kids were the inspiration behind writing her memoir, Rough Draft, where she focused on her upbringing with her journalist parents, Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard.

“I struggle with feeling like my kids are never really going to know who I am unless they know where I came from,” she told TODAY in 2022. “I’m from Los Angeles and Los Angeles feels very much a part of my identity."

She continued, "The way I grew up in the helicopter and feeling very intimately involved with the city through what my parents did. And when I left, it kind of felt like I stopped being who I was and started being someone new.”

In 2022, Tony opened up about his decision to undergo a vasectomy on social media, saying it was a his turn to take on "the burden" of birth control.

"About a year ago, after we more or less decided no more kids, @katyturnbc got me thinking about the ways she’s had to carry the weight of prevention all our years together — and basically all her life, same as most women, the way things go right now — and she kindly reminded me of all the side effects attached to the available methods, side effects I as a man hadn’t ever really considered, because I never experienced them, not to mention the major worry of another pregnancy and what that might mean for her health and her body after two difficult deliveries," he wrote.

"So, with all that on the table, she suggested maybe it was my turn to take on the burden... Just suggesting that maybe you talk to your wife or girlfriend about how you can take the burden off her. Everyone will be better for it."

Tony's oldest kids from his first marriage currently live in Israel, and it has been difficult for the father.

"It's tough. I have an 11-year-old and a 14-year old who live in Israel. They live there with their mother, my ex-wife. They are safe," Tony said on CBS Mornings in 2023. "But just as a father, I think people can understand, if somebody, anybody, is firing rockets in the direction of your children without regard to whether they are struck or not, you're going to feel a thing or two."