Meet Al Roker’s 3 multi-talented kids

Al and his first wife, Alice Bell, adopted Courtney in 1987, three years after getting married, and never looked back. He remembered the day they brought her into their lives in a 2020 Zoom segment for Today and how “humiliating” it was to welcome a new baby.

“An hour before, there was a car seat with no one in it. And then, an hour later, there was a baby,” he said. “And all of a sudden you’re humiliated because now you realize there’s someone bigger than you who needs your protection.”

Courtney, now 37, is a successful recipe creator for Chefman and Chef IQ and even collaborated with her father on his cookbook, which was released in October.

“I put my whole heart into it,” she said in an Instagram post; the book is called Al Roker’s Recipes for Living: Easy, Memorable Family Dishes for Every Occasion.

Al’s eldest daughter got engaged in April 2020 after her current husband, Wesley Laga, asked the weatherman for his blessing.

The couple married in a beautiful ceremony in New Jersey a year later, surrounded by family and friends, including Al’s colleagues Hoda Kotb, Dylan Dreyer, Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones.

The couple welcomed their daughter, Sky Clara Laga, in July 2023, and Al couldn’t have been more in love with his first grandchild.

He posted a photo of the little girl on Instagram, writing a sweet caption in tribute to Sky.

“And then this little girl came into my life,” he said. “Welcome to the world, Sky Clara Laga. In love again. Thank you, Courtney and Wes for such a perfect blessing. Your baby (sic) is beautiful. You are already planning ways to spoil her and then return her.”

He delighted in the new family member in an episode of Todayexplaining how “magical” it was to have a grandchild.

“The problem is, everyone tells you it’s going to be ‘that thing,’ and you don’t know it; it’s like when they tell you about your first child,” he said.

“And then holding this little girl, knowing that almost 35 years ago I held her mother in my arms? And here she is, 5 pounds, 15 ounces, 19 inches long, and she’s just perfect.”

Al welcomed his second child, Leila, with his second wife, Deborah Roberts, whom he married in 1995.

Leila was born in 1998 and has since followed in her father’s footsteps, completing media internships and working as a social media correspondent and production assistant on Today in 2016.

The 26-year-old completed her studies at the American University of Paris in 2021 with a degree in journalism and fine arts.

She now works at a PR firm in the French capital after joining Peacock’s Tokyo Summer Olympics broadcast team as a production executive in 2021.

“My youngest, Leila, is responsible for producing the prime-time show on Peacock, and she always wanted to do that,” Al said. People after spending time with her through his own role as an Olympic broadcaster.

Al exclaimed how proud he was of his caddy. Today.com and revealed how vibrant his personality is.

“(Leila) has a wicked sense of humor, is a hard worker and a loyal friend,” he told the outlet.

Leila is also an activist and wrote a powerful essay following the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Al’s youngest child and only son, Nick, was born in July 2002 and overcame a multitude of obstacles in his life after being diagnosed with a learning disability.

Al revealed to Landmarks magazine in 2019 that Nick is “somewhere on the spectrum and maybe obsessive-compulsive”, explaining that his life hasn’t been easy.

“We knew from the beginning that (Nick) would face a whole different set of challenges,” he told the publication.

“The obstacles in this child’s path were things that could have tripped up many others. Not Nick, not even with the disabilities he was born with.”

He continued: “I can’t begin to take credit for who Nick is and who he could become. All sorts of experts can tell you about the limitations of this and that. Nick never got that message .”

Nick is a hard worker and has a multitude of impressive hobbies, including being a black belt in taekwondo and winning two Special Olympics gold medals in swimming when he was just 16 years old.

“He’s very goal-oriented and he’s a great guy,” the meteorologist gushed about Nick on Today.

“As many parents who have children with special needs (know), they can try your patience. Not that they mean to, or anything like that. I watch it and all that he does and I want to be a better person.

Nick is now a sophomore in college, and like any parent, Al and Deborah had a hard time saying goodbye to their youngest child.

“I just dropped Nick off. We’re going to miss him,” he said in an Instagram video in January after winter break ended.

“But like my dad always said, ‘I can’t miss you if you don’t leave,'” he joked.