Editing Howard Stern (section)

==Personal life==

===Family and relationships===
Stern met his first wife, Alison Berns, while at Boston University through a mutual friend. He featured Berns in a student film he made about [[Transcendental Meditation]].<ref name=engage/>{{sfn|Colford|1997|pp=32–33}} Stern wrote, "Within a week after our relationship began, I knew I was going to marry her".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/howard-stern-does-hollywood-84524/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |title= Howard Stern Does Hollywood|date= March 16, 2011 |access-date= February 4, 2022 |first= Rich |last= Cohen }}</ref> They married at [[Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Temple Ohabei Shalom]] in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], on June 4, 1978; both were 24 years old.{{sfn|Colford|1997|p=42}} They have three daughters: Emily Beth (b. 1983), Debra Jennifer (b. 1986), and Ashley Jade (b. 1993).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1134268004584 |title= Meet: The Cast |access-date= September 18, 2008 |last= Phillips |first= Erica |date= February 21, 2006 |website=[[Sirius Satellite Radio]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060221193103/http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius%2FPage&c=FlexContent&cid=1134268004584 |archive-date= February 21, 2006 |url-status= dead }}</ref> In October 1999, they decided to separate.<ref>{{cite web |title= Stern's Dating/Rating Game |first= David |last= Hinkley |date= February 8, 2000 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/stern-dating-rating-game-howard-separation-wife-ongoing-on-air-search-girlfriend-connecting-shock-jock-larger-listenership-article-1.867129 |access-date= May 7, 2010 }}</ref> Stern said, "I was totally neurotic and sort of consumed with work. I took work as the most important thing and the only thing".<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/howard-sterns-long-struggle-and-neurotic-triumph-97935/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |title= Howard Stern's Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph |date= March 31, 2011 |access-date= February 4, 2022 |first= Neil |last= Strauss }}</ref> He moved from the home he shared with Berns in [[Old Westbury, New York|Old Westbury]], New York<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nypost.com/1999/10/25/sterns-l-i-neighbors-in-shock/ |title= Stern's L.I. neighbors in shock |first= Neil |last= Graves |date= October 25, 1999 |access-date= August 17, 2016 |work=[[New York Post]]}}</ref> into a 4,000-square-foot apartment in [[Millennium Tower (New York City)|Millennium Tower]] on the [[Upper West Side]] of Manhattan which he bought in 1998 for $4.9&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.eonline.com/news/38894/howard-stern-wife-separate |title= Howard Stern, Wife Separate |date= October 23, 1999 |access-date= February 4, 2022 |first= Marcus |last= Errico |work=[[E!]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83837036.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161008195408/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83837036.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= October 8, 2016 |title= News Lite: Stern makes move into Manhattan digs |date= September 18, 1998 |work=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |access-date= August 17, 2016 }}</ref> The marriage ended in 2001 with an amicable divorce and settlement.<ref name=engage>{{Cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401507.html |title= Howard Stern Engaged To Model Girlfriend |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date= February 14, 2007 |access-date= September 18, 2008 }}</ref> Stern has since bought a home in [[Southampton, New York]] on Long Island.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://hamptons.curbed.com/maps/hamptons-celebrity-homes-map |title= Hamptons Celebrity Homes Mapped |first1= Grace |last1= Cassidy |first2= Laura |last2= Euler |date= May 23, 2018 |work=[[Curbed]] |access-date= May 2, 2019 }}</ref>
[[File:Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky.jpg|thumb|Stern and wife [[Beth Ostrosky Stern|Beth Ostrosky]] in 2011]]
In the several months when Stern was single, he dated [[Angie Everhart]]<ref>{{Cite episode |first= Howard |last= Stern |series=[[The Howard Stern Show]] |date= March 21, 2007 |station=[[Howard 100]] |time= 9:00 a.m. hour }}</ref> and [[Robin Givens]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.essence.com/2008/06/18/through-the-storm-robin-givens |date= June 18, 2008 |title= Through the Storm: Robin Givens |work=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]] |access-date= August 16, 2016 }}</ref> He started seeing a psychotherapist.<ref name=":0" /> In 2000, he started to date model and television host [[Beth Ostrosky Stern|Beth Ostrosky]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1596999/howard-sterns-wife-beth-ostrosky-talks-about-recent-wedding/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140726224342/http://www.mtv.com/news/1596999/howard-sterns-wife-beth-ostrosky-talks-about-recent-wedding/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 26, 2014 |title= Howard Stern's Wife, Beth Ostrosky, Talks About Recent Wedding |first= Chris |last= Harris |work=[[MTV]] |date= October 14, 2008 |access-date= August 22, 2016 }}</ref> He announced their engagement on his radio show on February 14, 2007.<ref name=engage/> They married at [[Le Cirque]] restaurant in New York City on October 3, 2008. The ceremony was officiated by [[Mark Consuelos]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://nypost.com/2008/10/03/howard-stern-gets-married/ |title= Howard Stern Gets Married |first= Erin |last= Calabrese |work=[[New York Post]] |date= October 3, 2008 |access-date= October 3, 2008 }}</ref> In 2017, Stern purchased a home in [[Palm Beach, Florida]], for $52&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/national/meet-the-new-neighbor-howard-stern-reportedly-pays-million-for-palm-beach-home/S40fSnOxfilIE0oBSVWCfJ/?template=ampart |title= Meet the new neighbor: Howard Stern reportedly pays $52 Million for Palm Beach Home |first= Darrell |last= Hofheinz |date= August 28, 2017 |work= [[Palm Beach Daily News]] |access-date= May 2, 2019 |archive-date= August 6, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190806150539/https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/national/meet-the-new-neighbor-howard-stern-reportedly-pays-million-for-palm-beach-home/S40fSnOxfilIE0oBSVWCfJ/?template=ampart |url-status= dead }}</ref>
===Other activities===

In the early 1970s, Stern's parents began to practice Transcendental Meditation and encouraged him to learn. Stern credits the technique with helping him quit smoking, achieve his goals in radio, beat [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]], and cure his mother of depression.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://tmhome.com/books-videos/howard-stern-its-like-brushing-your-teeth/ |title=Howard Stern: "Meditation is just like brushing your teeth!" |access-date= August 22, 2016 |date= August 22, 2016 |website= TMHome }}</ref> As of 1997, he continued to practice it.{{sfn|Colford|1997|p=29}} Stern has interviewed [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], the founder of the technique, and thanked him for relieving his mother's depression.

Stern revealed his suffering with obsessive–compulsive disorder in ''Miss America''. His condition originated while at university and continued into his radio career.{{sfn|Stern|Sloman|1996|pp=126–127}} As part of the Staff Revelations Game on his radio show in January 2006, Stern revealed that he had undergone [[rhinoplasty]] and had [[liposuction]] under his chin in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/nose-job-howard-money-back-article-1.552368 |title= If you got a nose job, Howard, you should get your money back! |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date= January 18, 2006 |first= Michele |last= Ingrassia |access-date= August 22, 2016 }}</ref>
In 2012, Stern said he had adopted a [[pescetarian]] diet.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/howard-stern-goes-pescetarian |title= Howard Stern goes pescetarian |website=[[Mother Nature Network]] |access-date= April 19, 2018 }}</ref> In 2019, Stern revealed that he had a cancer scare two years prior, after a growth was found on one of his kidneys. It turned out to be a benign [[cyst]].<ref name=THR19>{{cite web |url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/howard-stern-reveals-cancer-scare-trump-regrets-details-a-dishy-new-book-1208773 |title= "All I'm Thinking Is, 'I'm Going to Die'": Howard Stern Reveals Cancer Scare, Trump Regrets and Details of a Dishy New Book |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first= Lacy |last= Rose |date= May 8, 2019 |access-date= May 9, 2019 }}</ref>

Stern is a longtime supporter and fund raiser for [[North Shore Animal League America]].<ref>{{cite press release |title= Howard and Beth Stern |url= https://www.animalleague.org/news-events/press/press-release-beth-howard-stern-adoption-special/ |website=[[North Shore Animal League America]] |access-date= January 8, 2018 }}</ref> Stern and Ostrosky have been fostering cats in their [[Long Island]] home since 2014. Approximately 200 cats come through their home every year.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Martoccio|first=Angie|date=May 22, 2019|title=Beth Stern on Landing Her Foster Kittens on the Cover of 'Rolling Stone'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/beth-stern-howard-stern-kittens-836973/|access-date=March 6, 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>