The Daily Beast
When she was a sophomore in high school, Megyn Kelly took a career aptitude test.
“At the time, I was interested in boys and popularity and cheerleading and my friends, and maybe a distant fourth or fifth would be academics,” the Fox News anchor said one recent afternoon.
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The results were unambiguous: She should go into broadcast journalism.
A whip-smart blonde with made-for-TV looks, Kelly became… a lawyer. But the pull of destiny was strong and after a time, Kelly abandoned the partner track at powerhouse Washington firm Jones Day to take a chance on journalism. In 2004, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes took a chance on her, and the rest is (recent) history More…