[3] Zee was named after "Ginger" from Gilligan's Island by her Dutch father, due to his love of the show.

[4] Zee's maternal grandfather is George Joseph Hemleb and grandmother Paula Adeline Wesner.

After that, Zee went on to Valparaiso University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology as well as a major in both mathematics and Spanish.

[9] After graduating from college, Zee worked for various media outlets such as WEYI-TV in Flint, Michigan, WYIN-TV in Merrillville, Indiana, WLAV-FM and WOOD-TV both in Grand Rapids, Michigan, WBMA-LD ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama as an intern under chief meteorologist James Spann, and WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois, an NBC owned and operated station.

[10] While working at WMAQ from 2006-2011, Zee was once asked to fill in as a guest meteorologist on the weekend edition of The Today Show, and this fulfilled her high school goal.

[19] Their first child together, a son, named Adrian Benjamin Colonomos, was born in December 2015 in Petoskey, Michigan.