Rachel Campos-Duffy (born October 22, 1971) is an American television personality who first gained fame in 1994 as a cast member on the MTV reality television series The Real World: San Francisco, before becoming a TV host, most notably as a recurring guest host on the ABC talk show The View. Rachel Campos-Duffy serves as a contributor for Fox News. In this role, Campos-Duffy offers political analysis across the network's daytime and primetime programming, including the show Outnumbered, on which she is a recurring guest host.
Rachel Campos was born in Tempe, Arizona, to Miguel Campos and Maria del Pilar. She has two brothers, one of whom is named Patrick. Her sister, Leah Campos Schandlbauer, ran for Congress in Arizona in 2012. Campos and her sister were raised in a strict Catholic home. Campos' grandparents emigrated to the United States from Mexico.
Campos graduated from Arizona State University in December 1993 with a degree in economics. She was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, which she had planned to use to attend graduate school, with the goal of being a college professor.