Eva Pilgrim (born August 30, 1982) is a South Korean-born American

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who currently co-anchors the

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afternoon news program '' GMA3: What You Need to Know'' with

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Early life

Pilgrim was born in

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, South Korea to a Korean mother and a white American father. Growing up, she mentioned “There weren't that many half-Asian women on television when I was a little girl. I grew up in a town where everybody looked so very different from me, so for me seeing those women on TV, it wasn't just, 'Oh, I can do that job,' but, 'Oh, women like me exist in other places than where I live”.https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/amp/culture/story/shoulders-abc-news-eva-pilgrim-growing-looked-63175557

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1982 births Living people American television reporters and correspondents American Broadcasting Company people American television news anchors American women television hosts University of South Carolina alumni University of Florida alumni American people of South Korean descent {{US-tv-journalist-stub