Christine Clayburg loved acting, but didn't consider herself "pretty, thin or rich" enough to make it her career. So she pursued another love: science.
But when TV station managers came searching the earth sciences department for "weather girls," Christine had the chance to combine her two interests. She went on to build a career with more than a decade of experience as a meteorologist and science reporter at top-rated stations across the country, including KABC in Los Angeles, WCCO in Minneapolis and WHDH in Boston.
Today, Christine's work is still a hybrid of both. As a producer for her company Clayburg Creative, she does media coaching, on-camera interviews and oversees production of positive news-style stories for small and mid-size companies, organizations and non-profits who don’t have a chance of getting traditional media coverage. On top of that, Christine also acts in commercials, films and television including seasons three through eight of "Desperate Housewives", "The Closer", "90210" and TV movies for Hallmark and Lifetime. She's even producing a screenplay.
For Christine, all this work has meant forgoing marriage and children, weekends and even Friday nights out, but she says those choices have been incredibly rewarding: "To choose is to sacrifice. To sacrifice is to begin to live. I am so at peace with my choices."