Rachel Campos-Duffy

Rachel Campos-Duffy
Campos-Duffy in March 2013
Born	Rachel Campos (1971-10-22) October 22, 1971 (age 45) Tempe, Arizona, United States
Occupation	Television personality
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Sean Duffy (m. 1999)
Children	8

Rachel Campos-Duffy (born October 22, 1971) is an American television personality who first gained fame in 1994 as a cast member on the MTV reality television series The Real World: San Francisco, before becoming a TV host, most notably as a recurring guest host on the ABC talk show The View. She was ranked one of "Newsmax's 50 Most Influential Latino Republicans" in 2016.

Rachel Campos was born in Tempe, Arizona, to Miguel Campos and Maria del Pilar. She has two brothers, one of whom is named Patrick. Her sister,Leah Campos Schandlbauer, ran for Congress in Arizona in 2012. Campos and her sister were raised in a strict Catholic home.

Campos graduated from Arizona State University in December 1993 with a degree in economics. She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, which she had planned to use to attend graduate school, with the goal of being a college professor.

Campos was cast on The Real World: San Francisco in January 1994, and lived in the house on Russian Hill in San Francisco with her six housemates from February 12 to June 19. The season premiered on July 6, 1994.

Although the castmates were informed ahead of time that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, they were not informed which housemate it would be. On the cast's first night in the house, Campos’ housemate, AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, informed the housemates that he had AIDS by showing them his scrapbook of his career as an HIV educator. Campos felt uncomfortable and initially distanced herself from Zamora, stating that she wanted to know how his health status would affect her. However, she said nothing to the other housemates for fear of appearing homophobic. Although Zamora took this as an act of rejection on her part, the two eventually became friends, with Zamora traveling to Arizona with Campos to visit her family. During her time on the series, she had both a romantic relationship and tumultuous friendship with housemate David "Puck" Rainey.Judd Winick attributed this attraction on her part to her taste for rebellious men, or "bad boys". Campos conceded this, and admitted that she was sometimes an initial bad judge of character, and too trusting. Campos' friendship with Rainey eventually dissolved, as did Rainey's friendship with the rest of the cast, resulting in his eviction. Campos subsequently became best friends with Rainey's replacement, Joanna Rhodes, and the two of them were referred to by Winick as "high maintenance twins".