Personal Life
Margaret Jane “Dee Dee” Myers was born in 1961 in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to Stephen and Judy Myers. She spent most of her formative years in Valencia, California. Her father was a Navy pilot who completed two tours of duty in the Vietnam War, and her mother worked as a real estate agent. Myers is a graduate of William S. Hart High School and Santa Clara University (1983).
She met her husband, Todd Purdum, the national editor for Vanity Fair, former White House correspondent, and Los Angeles bureau chief for the New York Times, during the 1992 presidential campaign. The couple married in 1997, have two children and live in Washington, D.C.
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