Jill Simonian

With a sharp and engaging personality across television and social media, Jill Simonian is a nationally-recognized Parenting Lifestyle Contributor and Expert, affectionately known on-air and online as "The FAB Mom." Jill can be seen twice-weekly on CBS Los Angeles News (Channel 2) discussing and offering tips for hot parenting topics and family lifestyle trends alongside anchors Pat Harvey and Sharon Tay; Wednesday nights at 5pm PST and Friday mornings at 6:45am PST. Jill also regularly contributes to NBC's TODAY Show's Parenting Team, is a frequent hot-topic commentator on HLN, blogs for Right Start baby stores and regularly contributes to popular online parenting website Mom.me.  Following 10 years as a full-time television host and entertainment reporter, Jill started dishing frank tips, tricks, and motivating anecdotes about new motherhood in 2011 as Founder/Blogger of her own entertaining blog TheFABMom.com. From 2013-2014, Jill served as a weekly Lifestyle Expert for Hallmark Channel's Home and Family and additionally sounded off on all things parenting and pop culture for E!, The Weather Channel, The Maury Show and more.  Jill frequently serves as a speaker and emcee/moderator for high-profile family and industry events throughout Southern California; including Mom 2 Summit, ConnectHER Conference, Skechers USA's Celebrity Friendship Walk, SoCal Moms' Spring Wellness event and Big Family Playdate, Club MomMe's Family Fest, Santa Monica's Pump Station and Pregnancy Awareness Month's annual educational fair. As a digital influencer, she's worked with the following brands to curate digital content and/or host live family events: Dove, Target, Lance Snacks, Belly Bandit, T-Mobile, Skechers USA, Aveeno, Intel AIO, Mars Inc (Skittles), Munchkin Inc,, Disney, Homejoy, BECO, The Ranch Laguna Beach, FabKids & JustFAB, Americana at Brand (Caruso Properties, Los Angeles), See's Candies and more. Before transitioning into the parenting lifestyle niche, Jill racked up thousands of hours on television while interviewing hundreds of today’s top celebrities. She hosted a multitude of lifestyle and entertainment programs for HLN (Showbiz Tonight), KTLA-5 (Sneaks with Sam Rubin, KTLA's Morning News, LIVE from the Academy Awards), Travel Channel (America's Worst Driver) and more. She was a full-time host, producer and writer for cable network ReelzChannel from 2006-2011 and has over 800 hours of television credited to her name during this time for ReelzChannel shows Dailies and The Big Tease alone. Jill's television career began in 2005, when she was selected 1st runner-up in "The Audition," KTLA Morning News' on-air contest to find a new weathercaster. (Jill garnered over 11,000 online votes from viewers, before the days of social media). Jill lives in Los Angeles with her husband and truly has a blast keeping life focused and as close to fabulous as possible (amidst her share of funny fails) with her two young daughters. Her debut book, The FAB Mom's Guide: How to Get Over the Bump & Bounce Back Fast After Baby (Skyhorse Publishing) is available April 4, 2017.