VRT News journalist and TV News anchor Fatma Taspinar is pregnant and looking forward to giving birth to her first baby. Ms Taspinar, who is of Turkish heritage, and her partner UZ Leuven intensivist Geert Meyfroidt will become parents of a first child together in the early spring of 2025.
Newscaster Fatma Taspinar will continue to host the VRT TV News during her pregnancy. Criminologist Taspinar combines her job as news anchor with her work as judicial affairs expert at the Flemish public broadcaster. She will continue to work in both roles during her pregnancy.
Fatma Taspinar’s partner Geert Meyfroidt works as an intensivist at the intensive care unit at Leuven University Hospital (UZ Leuven). He became a household name in Flanders during the pandemic when during newscasts he spoke about how the pandemic was impacting on intensive care. Mr Meyfroidt also starred on the VRT quiz show ‘De slimste mens ter wereld’ becoming the world’s smartest in Flanders in 2021.