About

When Jeannie Mai was a little girl, she would create a “backstage” by sweeping the drapes over the television set, use her mom’s makeup to add her finishing touches of gloss and glitter, and leap out with amicrophone in hand to “interview” one of the 16 family member living in her 3 bedroom home. The daughter of a hard working immigrant father from Vietnam and a vivacious trendsetting local celebrity mom, Jeannie learned early on how to make people smile. “I became an expert at observing individuals. My parents brought my relatives over from Vietnam because they believed they deserved an American life, and I believed they all would LOVE a makeover.”

It’s no wonder how this dreamy, passionate little girl from a humble upbringing became America’s one and only entertaining, fashionable, and playful television host, Jeannie Mai. With a famous stroke to start trends, Jeannie Mai kicks off 2009 with four shows to celebrate style starting with TLC’s “10 Years Younger, Style Network’s “Lucky Shops” and “Go Fix Yourself”, and the continuing fourth season of “Character Fantasy” on USA Network where she can be seen every week inspiring people to bring their dreams to life on reality tv. In 2008 she took part in tv history’s first ever attempt to revamp Miss America’s 52 hopefuls on TLC’s “Miss America Reality Check.”, starred in her very own Style Special of turning men from cute to couture on “Dude, Where’s Your Style”, and toured the world as the official spokesperson of Never Accept Ordinary, a line of cosmetics that promotes individualitythrough color.

This hardworking girl kept her passion for people bright when she started out teaching women how to “color in their spirit” with makeup and wardrobe in her hometown of San Jose, CA. Soon she caught the eyes of MAC Cosmetics, where she became a trainer and worked her way from face to face until she traveled around the world to dress the face of celebrities such as Kelly Osbourne, Alicia Keys, and Christina Aguilera, Here she discovered her passion to bring smiles from behind the scenes to the front of the camera. By representing herself to local television networks and auditioning with self-written scripts to demonstrate her unique hosting talents, she snagged a position as the spunky, fashionable host to an Asian American magazine-style show, STIR, broadcasting on International Channel Networks worldwide March 2004, which also picked up its first Emmy Nomination for 2005. Soon after, the San Francisco local music channel, CMC, invited her on as the first female VJ to host her own music countdown. Eager to learn the wraps on writing, she took on the role of entertainment reporter and producer on the WB’s “Daily Mixx”, before moving to LA after being cast as co-host to Frankie Muniz in the MTV pilot, “Granted”. Since then she has been a popular reappearing host for E!, Style, MTV, TLC, USA, and Lifetime to name a few. With a dream to help people gain confidence each day, it’s no mystery why in 2006 she was chosen to team up with USA Network to take a successful campaign to an exciting new level of brand integration: