Vanna White Shares Rare Family Photo as Christmas Card

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Vanna White may be a household name to Wheel of Fortune fans, but she has managed to keep her family mostly out of the spotlight.

The letter-turning star, however, shared a rare snapshot of her longtime boyfriend, John Donaldson, and daughter, Gigi San Pietro, and son, Nikko San Pietro — her two children with ex-husband George Santo Pietro.

In the photo, posted to Instagram as an online holiday card, the four are beaming with their arms around each other as they pose against a backdrop of palm trees.

TV Personality Vanna White attended an event on September 9, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. She recently shared a holiday photo of her longtime boyfriend and two kids for the holidays. Greg Doherty/Getty Images

White first met Donaldson, who owns a construction company, through a friend at a barbecue in 2012. She told People last year that the pair are in love but have no plans to make it official with a ring. "Do we have to get married? No, because we feel comfortable in our relationship. You know what I mean?" she said, explaining, "I know that he's the one. He knows I'm the one."

White boasted in May 2024 that she was "so proud" of her eldest son Nikko Santo Pietro, 30, after he sold his first home in Los Angeles for his job as a real estate agent with Buying Beverly Hills star Marucio Umansky's The Agency.

The puzzle queen's daughter, Gigi Santo Pietro, 27, also lives in L.A., where she works as a tattoo artist.

White, 67, told Good Morning America in September that her youngest child is comfortable around stars, but she was able to arrange a surprise for her while recently filming Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.

"On Celebrity, we had Snoop Dogg and my daughter, who is a huge fan of his — I mean, she meets a lot of celebrities — she goes, 'Mom! Can I meet him? Is there any way I can come and meet him? I would love to meet him,'" White recalled. "So she did. I said, 'Come on over.' She was so happy!"

This year marks White's 42nd year as co-host of the hit ABC game show.

"It's such a happy show. It's fun, too," she said of her longtime job. "It never gets old. There's always new puzzles. I have a new dress. You never know what's going to be said."