Deborah Jennifer Stern is best known as the child of Howard Stern, the host of The Howard Stern Show and a TV personality and radio host. Stern is the middle child of Stern and his wife, Alison Berns Stern, whom he married in 1978 when both Jennifer’s parents were only 24 years old. Jennifer’s parents, however, divorced in 2001 after twenty-three years of marriage.
While Howard married Jennifer’s step-mother, actress, and model Beth Ostrosky Stern, Jennifer’s mother also married another man, David Scott Simon, and now goes by the name Alison Berns Stern Simon. Ashley Jade Stern and Emily Beth Stern are Jennifer’s older and younger sisters. Jennifer and her siblings were all raised in the Jewish faith.