Tran Jeong Bio | All To Know About Ken Jeong’s Wife
Profile Summary
- Name: Tran Jeong
- Date of Birth: February 24, 1972
- Citizenship: American
- Place of Birth: USA
Born on February 24, 1972, Tran Jeong was born into a Vietnamese parents’ family in the USA. She became famous after getting married to the American actor Ken Jeong.
Education
Tran received her degree in medicine from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and began practicing as a family physician for nearly two decades.
Personal Life
She married popular actor Ken Jeong, and her husband is popular for playing Ben Chang’s role in The Hangover film series.
They met in 2002 while she worked at Kaiser Permanente in West California, Ken was also a colleague, and they both started dating and got married in 2004.
Actor Ken Jeong graduated from Duke University in the year 1990 and earned his M.D. from the University of North Carolina at the school of medicine in the year 1995.
He went for his residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, and it was during his residency he decided to become a comedian.
He began with stand-up comedy and later gave up practicing medicine to action movies, but still holds his license to practice medicine there in California.
They are both blessed with twin daughters.
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In 2008 after the birth of their children, Tran was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, and she said she was afraid of what would happen to her children if she lost her life.
While she went through chemotherapy for cancer, Ken landed Leslie Chow’s role in the first “Hangover film,” which proved to be his breakthrough in the entertainment industry.
During the filming, Ken added words and phrases to his dialogue which he called “inside jokes” between him and Tran.
Even the film director Todd Phillips did not know about this.
Tran Jeong had to go through 16 chemotherapy, one mastectomy, and radiation therapy in subsequent months.
In 2010, her doctors declared her cancer-free, though her oncologist informed her of her cancer’s possible return in two years.
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Ken won the” Best WTF Moment Award” in the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, where he celebrated his wife’s recovery.
On February 18, 2017, Ken revealed on Twitter that he was celebrating his wife’s eighth anniversary of being cancer-free.
The couple is both happily living together.
Tran Jeong Net worth
Trans net worth is guesstimated to be about $14 Million.
