Early Life and Family
Kerry was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Kerry's mother, Julia Thorne, was an author, who died in 2006 due to transitional cell carcinoma. Her father, John Kerry, is the Senior Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate. Her older sister is Alexandra Kerry. After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Bozeman, Montana. She attended the high school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
On October 10, 2009 in Boston, Kerry married Brian Vala Nahed, a Neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Nahed conducts research in brain cancer and is a spine and tumor surgeon. Dr. Nahed's family resides in Los Angeles.
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