Nathan Chen Is the ‘Baby’ of 5 Kids—Meet the Olympian’s Parents Siblings
05.02.2022 - 06:27
/ stylecaster.com
He may be a two-time Olympian, but to Nathan Chen’s parents, father Zhidong Chen and mother Hetty Wang, he’s just their son.
Nathan, who was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the youngest of five children. His eldest sister, Alice Chen, works in social media for Apple News and lives in New York City. She also has her own candle company, We Are Social Club, and has worked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club and production company, Hello Sunshine. “I’m the oldest, so he’ll always be my baby brother,” Alice told Team USA.org in 2017. “It’s been so incredible watching him grow into both the person and the athlete he is now. He’s so strong in every aspect of the word, and I’m really, really proud of how far he’s come and how far he’ll go.” She added, “We’ve watched firsthand the blood, sweat and tears Nathan has been putting into his career over the course of literally his entire life. I can hardly even remember a time when he wasn’t skating; he probably spent more time at the rink than he ever did at home.”
His other sister, Janice Chen, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the co-founder of Mammoth Bioscience, a company dedicated to “improving lives by reading and writing the code of life.” Janice, who also earned her PhD from Doudna Lab at UC Berkley, gave a TedTalk in 2018 about CRISPR diagnostics, which Nathan retweeted a video of on Twitter with the caption: “my sister really did THAT!”
Nathan’s brothers are Tony and Colin Chen. In an interview with Parade magazine in 2017, Nathan revealed that his brothers playing hockey was part of the reason he started ice skating. “I get a rush of adrenaline,” he said. “I want to do it again and again. That definitively has made me super passionate about