From the Storms of her Past Life to the Storms on GMA’s News Broadcast – Host Ginger Zee proves that No Storm Is Unbeatable, becoming an inspiration and bringing profound lessons to Millions of viewers!

The storm was brewing.

Ginger Zee, ABC News’ chief meteorologist, came off in public as together, knowledgeable and fun. Privately, a tsunami was kicking up.

Zee, while definitely smart and sassy, was also emotionally fragile. Zee was in such a tenuous place 10 days before starting her ABC gig in 2011 that she checked herself into a ment@l h3alth h0spital.

Years earlier, she tried to commit su::1c1de by taking every pill in a medicine cabinet. Depr3ss1on still had a grip on her.

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In her memoir “Natural Disaster: I Cover Them. I Am One,” Zee opens up for the first time about her lows — including an abus1ve b0yfriend. The book comes out on Dec. 5.

Now happily married, the mom of one (and pregnant with No. 2) is in a far healthier place. Last year she finished third on “Dancing With the Stars.”

Despite the gravity of some of the book, Zee is breezy and self-deprecating. She gets serious when she tells of falling for a boyfriend who was, in her mother’s words, a m0nster.

Zee called the police after a marathon fight when she ran from him at a remote lodge and hid under a table on another floor until she saw the police lights.

It was the typical tyranny of an abuser. He would be wonderful, then controlling. He called her names, went through 10-year-old texts of hers, cut her off from friends and family and terrified her.

Zee, very much a journalist, shines a light on the whole story — admitting that after enduring his manipulative behavior, she cheated on him with her ex-boyfriend.

The cheating isn’t surprising — the former boyfriend was a great guy. The shocker is that she bothered to write about her abusive love.

Zee on “Dancing with the Stars” with Valentin Chmerkovskiy.
This section is the most difficult to read. And Zee is very aware that a woman already mentoring aspiring meteorologists, someone who moved around the country in pursuit of bigger jobs and worked weeks without a day off — an otherwise strong, ambitious woman — cowered from this bu::lly.

It’s as if there were two Gingers, she writes: “The successful, happy-go-lucky ‘wake up and watch Ginger Zee’ side and the dark, despondent, tortured and introverted Ginger Zuidgeest (her birth name).”

When she looked in the mirror, she was unsure which Ginger would stare back.

That sort of no-holds barred honesty comes through from this woman who knew she wanted to be a meteorologist since she was a kid.

A child of the Midwest, Zee grew up “fantastically middle class” and fascinated by storms.

Zee on the set of “Good Morning America” in 2014.
She’s chased a few storms and remains awestruck by nature. Zee also created a few tempests in her personal life. She jilted her fiancé — twice. The first time came six weeks before the wedding, just after mailing the invitations.

She woke up sobbing and realized it was a mistake, despite what a good guy he is. Zee ran over to the Post Office, where a sympathetic mailman opened the mailbox and let her retrieve the invitations.

The couple waited and when the wedding was rescheduled, this time with catering ordered and people flying in, she again backed out.

Zee’s track record in not picking the right guy extended to dating her best friend. Sometimes this works out well, but rarely when that BFF is gay.

Through all of that, what captivated Zee was severe weather, some of which she watched from a house by Lake Michigan.

“We would hear my mom start freaking out. (She always loses her minds in storms, which is pretty ironic given that she gave birth to me. Her threshold for a freak-out is about a twenty-mile-per-hour gust, and then she yells, ‘Everyone down in the basement!’ at the top of her lungs.) I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.”

That love propelled her through college and a series of small stations, honing her craft until she arrived at ABC’s headquarters.

Along the way there were a series of unfortunate haircuts. Many of us have been inflicted with temporary insanity in a salon chair, but so few have to model a dreadful cut or color choice on air. Zee has.

She also favored retina-searing colored pantsuits, but along the way came into her own style. And she kept learning.

Zee is adamant that she’s not “a weather girl,” a dem3aning term on many levels: The grown woman is not a girl, and she doesn’t read a prepared report — instead studying weather charts and patterns for her segment.

Zee shows off her engagement ring on air in 2013.
Zee earned a bachelor of science in meteorology.

Most people on TV reporting the weather have a science degree, she stresses, and “are genuinely interested in the atmosphere. The job is just too hard and too challenging to pursue if you don’t love the weather.”

Though she doesn’t brag about this and slips it into the middle of the book, Zee is the first female chief meteorologist at a network. She was named to this post four years ago, when she was 32.

Besides the reminder that anyone can be felled by depr3ss1on even if you achieve your dream job, the big takeaway is Zee’s enthusiasm: She is up for trying anything.

Her producers think she should paraglide off a mountain? Sure, how high? When?

She is open and willing to try whatever they throw her way. And being a meteorologist often means traveling to where the big weather story is.

Hurricane Katrina was the first major natural disaster Zee covered. And as fascinating as wind gusts and warm gulf water are to a true weather geek, Zee was painfu::lly aware of the death and destruction everywhere.

It is thrilling to have a front row seat to history and be amazed at the obliteration a massive disaster leaves in its wake. But there’s also the matter of listening to survivors tell you they haven’t yet heard from family or lost their pets and are standing in a wasteland of what was once their neighborhood.

Zee recalls what broke her heart — after days of gut-wrenching scenes — was “watching crowds of people standing on line at a CVS that no longer existed. I’ve never seen people so abandoned, so desperate.”

She’s been shaken to her core by the weather when one of her mentors, Tim Samaras, was ki::lled chasing a tornado in Oklahoma. Zee was also covering the powerful twister.

Ginger Zee
Monitoring its path, she made her producer stop and turn around the van. That prudence, especially for someone who loved being in the eye of the storm, saved their lives.

Zee calls her 282-page book an “anti-Instagram” and her aim is that by sharing her story she might help demystify depr3ss1on. This is a woman who always kept herself on a crammed schedule, always had goals and achieved them.

She was loved, did well in school, excelled and had friends and boyfriends. Still, depr3ss1on lurked at the corners and sometimes pu::lled her in.

But with a lot of work, she found shelter from the storm.