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Frank Ski has a child on the way with his new wife Patrice Basanta-Henry

Broadcaster Frank Ski and physician Patrice Basanta-Henry exchanged vows at The Estate in Buckhead the day after Thanksgiving in 2017.

Credit: Jennifer Brett / jbrett@ajc.com

Credit: Jennifer Brett / jbrett@ajc.com

Broadcaster Frank Ski and physician Patrice Basanta-Henry exchanged vows at The Estate in Buckhead the day after Thanksgiving in 2017.
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Dec 18, 2018

Originally posted Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

Frank Ski announced this morning on his V-103 morning show that his wife Patrice Basanta-Henry is pregnant with his fifth child.

The couple married last year. This is Ski's second marriage.

He has three sons (Blake, Harrison and Franklin) from a previous marriage with Tanya Parker and an adult fourth son (Jarrett) from another relationship before that.

Ski, 54, is currently co-parenting with Parker his three youngest sons, who are teens.

Basanta-Henry, featured on the cover of Georgia Trend's 2017 "40 Under 40" issue, received an undergraduate degree from Howard University and a masters from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before earning a medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her residency and fellowship at Emory University. She is currently a maternal-fetal medicine specialist.

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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