But throughout Ginger Zee's career, the smile covered an internal and deeply personal struggle.
She writes about it in her latest book, "A Little Closer To Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm"
Zee spoke about the book with ABC7 Meteorologist Tracy Butler, including the stigma of mental health and trauma.
Ginger's book, A Little Closer to Home is available on Amazon. Thursday night, she's doing a virtual visit through Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville. For more information, visit their website.