‘I hid it for a very long time’: Lauren Sanchez reveals a lifelong condition
A little piece of advice for parents from Lauren Sanchez: Read to your kids, if just for 10 minutes.
The newlywed who married billionaire Jeff Bezos in Italy over the summer appeared on the “Today” show Tuesday to promote her latest children’s book, “The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea.”
The glow-in-the dark tale is the licensed pilot’s follow-up to 2024’s “Fly Who Flew to Space,” about a bug named Flynn who accidentally got trapped on the space shuttle and has quite the adventure.
Sanchez, who has a home in South Florida, told co-host Craig Melvin that the bonding experience of reading with children releases oxytocin, also known as the “hormone of attachment.”
The 56-year-old mom of three also touched on how the picture-filled book is ideal for those with dyslexia, a learning disability that makes it harder to read words accurately.
The former “Extra” anchor knows of what she speaks: Sanchez was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 19 after encountering problems with writing.
“I hid it for a really long time,” admitted the New Mexico native, adding that one of her professors at El Camino community college in Los Angeles led her to get tested.
“She literally looked at me and goes, ‘You’re not dumb, you just can’t spell,’” said the Indian Creek Village resident, who dedicated the book to the journalism teacher Lori Medigovich. The educator actually popped up at a signing for Sanchez’s first book in Pasadena back in 2024.
In another video Sanchez again talks about “the moment her life changed forever” when Medigovich pulled her struggling student aside to seek answers.
“I went from almost failing out of school to making the dean’s list,” Sanchez tells her followers.
“Thank you ... for helping me realize there wasn’t something wrong with me,” read the caption. “I just learned differently.”
“The Fly Who Flew Under the Sea” is available on her tech titan husband’s website Amazon for $14.36.
This story was originally published March 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM.
