Erin Brady

2014 Operation Smile's "Smile Event" in New York City - Arrivals

Brady in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Erin Joyce Brady

Place of Birth: East Hampton, Connecticut, U.S.

Date of Birth: November 5, 1987

Ethnicity: Armenian (maternal grandmother), Polish, German, Irish, English

Erin Brady is an American television host, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She won Miss USA 2013. She is the daughter of Judith and Frank Brady. Erin is married to Nick Colagiovanni.

Erin’s maternal grandfather was William Edward Krauth (the son of Arthur Krauth and Viola Chadsey). William was born in Connecticut. Arthur was the son of Frederick Ernest Krauth and Elizabeth Linane. Viola was the daughter of Percy C. Chadsey and Henriette.

Erin’s maternal grandmother was named Joyce Margaret Bodozian (the daughter of Dertad Bodozian and Youghaper/Olga). Joyce was born in Connecticut, to Armenian parents, from Sivas, Turkey. They survived the Armenian Holocaust.

Erin’s paternal grandparents likely are Kenneth Brady and Theresa Gawlak.

Sources: https://youtu.be

Obituary of Erin’s maternal grandfather, William Edward Krauth – https://www.legacy.com

Obituary of Erin’s maternal grandmother, Joyce Margaret (Bodozian) Krauth – https://www.courant.com

19 Responses

  1. jonasbsjr says:

    is she considered ”mixed” in north america?

    • passingtime85 says:

      Not sure about Mexicans and Canadians, and the rest of the nations south of Mexico, but most Americans don’t have a strong grasp on what to consider Armenians. I think the generalized consensus is that Armenians are “Middle Eastern” and thus not white. So yeah people would say she’s mixed if they knew her heritage, but no if they were to judge by looks alone.

      • jonasbsjr says:

        Thanks for the polite and informative reply, bet your folks raised you well, unlike some rude and bossy people here…

        • andrew says:

          Do you imply people looking at her would scream “wow, what a stunning “mixed” woman”?

          • passingtime85 says:

            Maybe a pre-20th century racist would, but really they might find her unappealing since she doesn’t reflect the Caucasian, more specifically Nordic, ideal of beauty, which is usually the pinnacle of aesthetic for those people.

    • andrew says:

      @jonas

      Why you can’t resist to do dumb questions.

      • passingtime85 says:

        Why is it dumb to want a foreign perspective?

        • andrew says:

          He read “Armenian” and started fantasying about her public racial profiling, She is just one quarter Armenian.

          • passingtime85 says:

            Maybe it was just curiosity. Or maybe I made an incorrect inference, maybe he was actually asking about the mix of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic/Gaelic and West Asian heritage, and whether that hodgepodge of admixture is looked upon as a mixed in general in NA.

            Brazil’s population has a highly admixed population, they look at racial and ethnic categories differently than other nations. A Brazilian curious about how other nationalities view races seems like a normal question to pose.

    • Oaken05 says:

      In the US? No. Armenians aren’t considered to not be “white.” Depending on who you ask, they might be considered “ethnic” – a term still used by some for some non-Anglo white people – but they’d still be considered white.

      • Akwaba says:

        The white/POC classification is not made for people from West Asia and North Africa (ex : the most racist candidate in France would not be considered white in the US).

      • passingtime85 says:

        Really depends on who you ask. Sad reality is Americans are very ignorant to world geography and probably wouldn’t know where Armenia was on the map/globe. Most modern United States citizens don’t have a well defined sense of race and/or the variants of ethnicities across the globe.

        You could show them a picture of say one of the Kardashians, and it’d be a, half say they’re white, half say no not white.

        In a poll without visual aids, you could ask about Armenians as a whole, and tell them Armenia is near the middle east, if you said west Asia you’d probably get a blank stare or a nervous unsure nod, and many people, would say then “no those people aren’t white.”

        Americans really hold onto the whites come from Europe concept. If you told most Americans that Arabs and Iranians got to check the Caucasian box on the US census, they’d be surprised. Americans conflate white and Caucasian all the time.

  2. bablah says:

    https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/middletownpress/name/william-krauth-obituary?id=19121439
    https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2008-02-01-0801310584-story.html

    Erin’s maternal grandfather was William Edward Krauth (the son of Arthur Krauth and Viola Chadsey). William was born in Connecticut. Arthur was the son of Frederick Ernest Krauth and Elizabeth Linane. Viola was the daughter of Percy C. Chadsey and Henriette.

    Erin’s maternal grandmother was Joyce Margaret Bodozian (the daughter of Dertad Bodozian and Youghaper/Olga). Joyce was born in Connecticut, to Armenian parents from Sivas, Turkey.

    Add English to ethnicity (Chadsey line)

    Erin’s paternal grandparents are likely Kenneth Brady and Theresa Gawlak.

  3. andrew says:

    daughter of Francis “Frank” Brady and Judith Krauth

    paternal grandmother is named Theresa

    *Irish, German, other

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.