Joanna Gaines

About

Joanna Lee Stevens Gaines (née Stevens; born April 19, 1978) is an American interior designer, television personality, and author. She co-hosted the home renovation show Fixer Upper, which began airing on HGTV in 2013, alongside her husband Chip Gaines.
The Gaineses also helm the media brand Magnolia, which encompasses the Magnolia E-commerce site, the Hearth & Hand with Magnolia collection of home decor items for Target, the lifestyle magazine Magnolia Journal, the Magnolia Network television channel on which Fixer Upper and its spinoff series now air, the Magnolia Realty real estate brokerage (originally established by the pair in 2003), and the Magnolia App.
Gaines is also the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of seven books including cookbooks, memoirs, a home design book, and children’s books.

Joanna Lee Stevens Gaines was born Joanna Lee Stevens on April 19, 1978, in Wichita, Kansas to Nan Stevens, a Korean immigrant, and Jerry Stevens, of Lebanese–German heritage. Her parents met in Seoul, South Korea in 1969 when Jerry was stationed there with the United States Army. In 1990, when she was 12 years old, the family settled in Austin, Texas. During…