Personal Life
Banks met her husband, sportswriter and producer Max Handelman, on her first day at college on September 6, 1992. They were married in 2003. She was raised in a family of both Irish Catholic and Anglo-Saxon Protestant background, and has converted to Judaism, her husband's faith. She and her husband welcomed their first child, Felix, who was born via a surrogate in March 2011. In November 2012, Banks announced that her family had welcomed another son, Magnus Mitchell, also born via surrogate.
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