HLN’s Robin Meade opens up about her family ties to poverty
HLN's "Morning Express" host Robin Meade, right, with her father, Linro Meade, and her brother in 1977, New London, Ohio.
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Linro Meade was the last child of 14 born to Robert and Myrtie Meade. In this photo, he is about 3 years old in the backyard of the home where the family lived in Eastern Kentucky.
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This is the house where Linro Meade was born, built by hand by his father on rented land using no modern machinery. The chimney was made from rocks and clay mortar and the lumber is rough sawn. It was never painted and had no running water or heat, with the exception of a small fireplace.
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Linro Meade at age 10, pictured with his father, Robert Meade, and stepmother, Julie. His birth mother, Myrtie Meade, died of cancer when Linro was 9.
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This is Linro Meade in junior high, where he acquired the nickname "Lenny."
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A Meade family photo circa 1978.
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An undated photo of Linro Meade winning the area UAW worker's clay trap shooting tournament. He worked in a factory that made rubber parts for cars.
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Robin Meade with her parents and husband, Tim Yeager, in Ohio in the early '90s.
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Meade with her parents in 2016.
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Meade interviews a volunteer with the Blessings in a Backpack organization.
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Meade carries bags during a volunteer effort with the Blessings in a Backpack organization.
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Meade joins the Blessings in a Backpack charity volunteers.
