Fox & Friends weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy shares heartwarming moment with daughter live on air

Fox & Friends weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy shares heartwarming moment with daughter live on air

IN a tender exchange, FOX & Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy brought her daughter on the show to discuss being a parent to a child with Down Syndrome.

In honor of World Down Syndrome Day, the host told Fox & Friends viewers that her family was made better with the addition of 5-year-old Valentina.

Rachel Campos-Duffy said her daughter with Down Syndrome is just as joyful as any other childCredit: getty

Valentina has brought more empathy to the family’s household, according to Campos-DuffyCredit: Fox News
Campos-Duffy’s daughter Valentina was born in 2019.

Campos-Duffy joined Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt, alongside her daughter, to discuss her experience as a mother to a child with a genetic disorder.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 21: Fox anchor Ainsley Earhardt (R) interviews Rachel Campos-Duffy and daughter Valentina Duffy at "Fox & Friends" For World Down Syndrome Day at Fox News Channel Studios on March 21, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

“I think it’s really important to raise awareness because actually a lot of women get this diagnosis and they will get fearful,” Campos-Duffy said.

She said that even the medical community can inflict fear on prospective parents of children with Down Syndrome.

She said her daughter is “as lovely, as precious, as joyful, as any other child” and described the problems children affected by Downs have as being “very treatable.”

“They have a few little challenges, sometimes medical – some of them are prone to heart conditions, maybe some thyroid stuff,” Campos-Duffy said.

But Valentina’s health hasn’t slowed down the family.

According to the mother of nine, her other children with husband Sean Duffy, an American politician and former Congress member, have more empathy thanks to their sister Valentina.

“I think our kids have learned tolerance and patience,” she said. “They’ve learned to be helpful.”

Her daughter also briefly demonstrated her pilates skills for viewers – moves her mother said she learned in physical therapy.

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Campos-Duffy identifies as a pro-life activist and said she was initially inspired by Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a colleague of her husband’s and the mother to a child with Down Syndrome.

Campos-Duffy said that her other eight kids have more empathy thanks to their sister Valentina

“I think that that’s really the point…so many children with Downs are being exterminated in the womb and I think, when people get to meet them and know how wonderful they are, we’re going to see less of that,” said Campos-Duffy.

This year marks 30 years since Campos-Duffy was on MTV’s reality television series The Real World.

She was one of six cast members on The Real World: San Francisco in January 1994, the fifth season of the show.

The American TV personality, who also hosts the From the Kitchen Table podcast alongside her husband Sean, told People Magazine that her Real World season could not be made today due to “woke cancel culture.”

Valentina is pictured with her dad Sean Duffy, an American politician and former Congress member

Campos-Duffy insisted that “wokeism” is not only negatively impacting the reality TV world but also society as a whole.

The Fox & Friends Weekend co-host said that cancel culture prevents people from expressing their honest opinions.

“When you shame and punish people socially and professionally just for having a different point of view, you get a lot of self-censorship and fake virtue signaling,” she said.

Campos-Duffy said that her other eight kids have more empathy thanks to their sister ValentinaCredit: Getty

Valentina is pictured with her dad Sean Duffy, an American politician and former Congress memberCredit: Fox News

 

 

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