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Personal Details Summary
Name	Laura Bassett
Birthday / How old is Laura Bassett Age / Date of Birth / DOB	August 6, 1983. As of 2025, she is around 42 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Partner / Boyfriend	Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	White
Nationality	American
Where is Laura Bassett now?	She has covered women’s health and rights for five years at The Huffington Post.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Laura Bassett is an American journalist, who was a politics reporter for The Huffington Post.
Currently, she is a politics columnist for GQ and a freelance writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Washington Post, and Marie Claire.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Laura Elizabeth Bassett was born on August 6, 1983, in Opelousas, Louisiana, to parents Jeffrey M. Bassett (father), an attorney, and Cynthia Jane ‘Cecette’ Smith Bassett (mother), a tutoring volunteer and board member for Hope for Opelousas.
Laura is the eldest of three siblings: she has two younger brothers, Taylor Jefferson Bassett and Scott Bassett. She also has two young nieces, Vivvie and Gia, who often feature on her Instagram posts. Her grandmother completed 96 years in November 2021.
Laura grew up in Opelousas, and after graduating from high school, she moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she attended the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2005. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and English Literature.
Following her graduation from the University of Virginia, Laura went on to study at Georgetown University in Washington DC from 2007 to 2009, where she achieved a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature.
Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York City.

Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth

Laura worked for The Huffington Post as a politics reporter for 10+ years since November 2009.
She is now working as a freelance journalist writing on gender, politics, and culture for various publications such as The Washington Post, Marie Claire, and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Laura is very passionate about writing on policies and their consequences, particularly those affecting women, and she is a known and sought-after expert on politics, especially on women’s health and women’s rights.
She is currently working primarily as a politics columnist for GQ Magazine and has also written articles for InStyle.
Laura was a consultant on the docuseries The Keepers, produced by Netflix. The docuseries went on to get a nomination for an Emmy.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

In February 2020, Laura named former MSNBC host Chris Matthews as the man who made several objectifying and harassing remarks about her appearance while also being suggestive and inappropriately flirty back in 2016. Earlier, Laura had talked about this matter before without naming names.
She was awarded a grant by the Pulitzer Centre to report on unsafe abortion practice in Kenya in 2015. For her work in Kenya, she was awarded the Global Media Award by the Population Research Institute.
Planned Parenthood also awarded her two Media Excellence awards for her feature writing and commentary articles.
Laura is a co-founder of the ‘Save Journalism’ project.
She frequently travels in her free time and spent most of January 2020 on a trip throughout various countries in Europe such as Italy, England, and France.
Laura loves dogs and has a cavapoo called Wrenli.
She is a fan of the poetry of Maggie Smith, the American poet.
Laura also went on a trip to Colombia for her birthday in August 2019, where she had a wonderful time.

Body Figure / Physical Info

Laura Bassett Measurements :

Eye Color : Green
Haircut / Hair Color : Brown
How tall / Height : 5′6″
Feet / Legs / Boots / Shoe Size : No confirmed information is available.
Pregnant? : Currently, she is not expecting a baby.
Weight Loss : A few Google queries regarding this, but we couldn’t find anything conclusive on any of her social media.