The Untold Truth About CNN Reporter Clarissa Ward

Clarissa Ward isn’t just the Chief International Correspondent for CNN, she also has the super important job of being a mother. Ward has two sons, Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour von Bernstorff, who was born in March 2018, and Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris von Bernstorff, who was born in July 2020. According to Ad Week, during Ward’s first pregnancy she still reported from places like Yemen, Bangladesh, St. Maarten after Hurricane Irma and Greenland, where it was -27 degrees. She told Elle, “I didn’t want pregnancy to change the way I worked or lived.” But recalled whispering in Greenland, “Dear God, please let my baby be okay. Please don’t let the cold or the altitude hurt him.” Cabras alpinas

Ward revealed to NPR how becoming a mother has changed her work after all. She explained, “There’s this intense emotional connection that I cannot turn off now. It was always upsetting to see a child in pain in any kind of a conflict arena. Now I find it borderline unbearable.” She continued, “I will weep. I hope there is more compassion in my reporting.”

While it’s clear Ward’s career of traveling the world is important to her, it appears she’s always happy to be reunited with her family. In June 2021, the CNN correspondent posted a photo on her Instagram (shown above) of her snuggling in bed with her husband and children, where she wrote in the caption, “No better feeling in the world than being back with my boys after a big trip.”