Season 3 of HGTV’s Windy City Rehab premiered on April 21, 2022, and since then, viewers have been wondering who general contractor Donovan Eckhardt is married to? Even in the earlier seasons, when Donovan and home designer and remodeler Alison Victoria had to deal with various lawsuits and disagreements, some fans have always been curious about Donovan’s personal life. As it turns out, he is married to a beautiful woman named Erica Eckhardt.
Meet Erica Eckhardt, Windy City Rehabilitation Center Wife of star Donovan Eckhardt
One fine day, August 18, 2012, Windy City Rehabilitation Center star Donovan Eckhardt married Erica Eckhardt in a church in Chicago, Illinois. Nearly a decade later (as of 2022) and they’re still going strong. And once on their wedding anniversary, Donovan took to social media to beautifully write, “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, or until Erica kills me.” He calls it a “marital miracle.”
And as parents of four, they are now a group of six. Their third child, aka TDE III, was born around April 2021, followed a year later by Henry (Hank) Elias Eckhardt.
Erica Eckhardt’s age
Since Erica Eckhardt was born in 1978, she turned 43 in 2021.
Erica Eckhardt’s work
As of 2022, Erica Eckhardt is based in the Greater Chicago Area, where she works at the University of Chicago Medicine as the director of population health management research. She is also said to be a business manager. Prior to starting work there, she is said to have majored in Health Care Management and Policy as a student at the same university from 2007 to 2009.
Is Erica Eckhardt on IG?
Erica Eckhardt can be found on IG @ececkhardt. However, it is a private account with 35 posts and 425 followers as of May 7, 2022.
Unlike on IG, Erica has shared some glimpses of her life on Facebook ‘Erica Eckhardt’ and on Pinterest @echedid.
Where is Erica Eckhardt from?
Erica Eckhardt is from Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois. Donovan, on the other hand, was born and raised in his hometown of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Erica Eckhardt Family
Erica Eckhardt’s father, Antonio Chedid, is no longer with us. He was a MD in Lake Forest, Illinois, and passed away on January 29, 2016, after nearly 80 years of a glorious and fulfilling life. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School and the Louis Pasteur Institute in Paris. Before his death, he raised his family in Lake Forest with his beautiful and loving wife, Houda. In addition to his daughter Erica, he had another daughter, Marie-Claude “Mimi” Pacelli (married to James) and a son, Anthony John (married to Frances).
Erica’s mother is Houda Chedid Coldwell, a real estate agent at Banker Realty, her brother is Anthony of New York, New York, who turns 46 in July 2021, and her sister is Marie-Claude of Lake Forest, who turns 44 in September 2021.
Additionally, Erica’s paternal grandparents are Marie and Aziz Chedid, of Mexico City.
Related FAQs
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When is Erica Eckhardt’s birthday?
Erica Eckhardt celebrates her birthday on November 13. And for those born on this day, their zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Donovan was also born in the same month. However, he is a Sagittarius born on the 25th. Also, he is one year younger than Erica.
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What is Erica Eckhardt’s maiden name?
Before her marriage, Erica still used her maiden name, Erica Chedid.
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Erica Eckhardt has appeared on Windy City Rehabilitation Center?
With Part 3 of Windy City Rehabilitation Center When Erica returns to the small screen, viewers are looking forward to seeing if Erica’s husband Donovan and co-workers Alison and Donovan can work out their differences. (Viewers saw the former co-workers at odds last season.) But, as of this writing, the new season focuses solely on Alison, with no sign of Donovan. As a result, some fans have taken to social media to question the status of their working relationship. Donovan’s wife, Erica, has apparently never been on the HGTV home renovation reality show. As a result, IMDB doesn’t credit her for any of her roles on the show.
Meanwhile, Donovan began franchising with Windy Flip Cityin one episode, in 2017. Then, from 2019 to 2020, he appeared in a total of 14 episodes Windy City Rehabilitation Center. In the following season of City Rehab, he also appeared in a total of eleven episodes. And each time he contributed as a construction consultant.
But that good start didn’t end well, as he was not only fired from the show in the spring of 2019, but also sued Big Table Media and Discovery, the show’s production company and parent company, for $2.2 million. Why? Because, he said, he was made out to be a villain at the time of his falling out with Alison. He claimed he suffered emotional distress at the hands of the show’s production team after a series of lawsuits from disgruntled homeowners who had done renovation work on the show.