Giuliana Rancic (/ˈrænsɪk/; née DePandi; born August 17, 1974) is an Italian-born American entertainment reporter and television personality.

[2][3][4] Her father was a tailor who owned a store in White Flint Mall, and they lived nearby in Bethesda, Maryland; Rancic went to Walt Whitman High School, where she was a cheerleader.

[12] In February 2015, Rancic faced backlash over her controversial comments about synthetic dreadlocks worn by Zendaya at the Oscars, remarking that the hair looked like it smelled of "patchouli and weed".

[17] In August 2011, Rancic and her husband announced plans to open a restaurant in partnership with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises.

[18] The restaurant was named RPM Italian, with a menu including dishes inspired by Rancic's mother, "Mama DePandi", and it opened in the River North district of Chicago in February 2012.

[27] The two have publicly discussed their fertility issues on television talk shows, having tried to conceive since approximately the beginning of 2009.

[28] The couple began in vitro fertilization (IVF) in March 2010,[28] and Rancic got pregnant in the spring of 2010, but she miscarried at nine weeks.

When the couple decided to try for a third round of IVF, her doctor recommended a mammogram, which is how she found out she had breast cancer.

[31] On October 17, 2011, during an interview on Today, Rancic announced she had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, for which she would be treated with a double lumpectomy, followed by radiation treatment.

[34][35][36] On April 23, 2012, Giuliana and Bill announced on The Today Show that they were expecting their first child via a gestational surrogate.