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Bree Walker is a well-known television network news anchor (and later, a talk radio host); she has appeared as a news anchor and/or reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles. She was born with ectrodactyly, a rare congenital deformity: her fingers and toes are fused together. As an advocate for persons with disabilities, she is one of the first in her field to succeed in spite of a physical deformity.

Bree Walker is a warrior. She decided early in life that her ectrodactyly, an inherited condition that produces a deformity of the hands and feet, would be no more than a minor nuisance in her drive to achieve her ambitions. In fact, she has at times turned it to her considerable advantage. Bree’s career in media began with rock and roll radio on KUDL-FM in Kansas City. But the Great Plains could only hold her for two years before she struck out for the challenge of New York. In short order, she was one of the Big Apple’s top rock personalities and the first woman DJ in the coveted and competitive morning drive slot – while her own driving was often done wrapped around a Harley-Davidson.

Established and well into her career at the ABC affiliate KGTV Channel 10 in San Diego, Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly after previously keeping her deformed hands hidden inside a pair of glove-like prosthetic hands. With her hands now clearly visible, she continued her successful newscasting career at KGTV, moving up to the larger markets at WCBS Channel 2 in New York City, and in 1988 to KCBS Channel 2 Los Angeles.

Her media career started as an FM rock and roll disc jockey, on KUDL FM as “rock’s lady of the night” in Kansas City in the middle 1970s. She soon after became New York City’s first-ever female morning drive rock personality. She started her television career in 1980 at KGTV as a consumer advocacy reporter. She also dabbled in acting, appearing as herself in the end of the world SF thriller Without Warning and as television reporter Wendy Sorenson in The Chase, both in the early 1990s.

Her career took a surprising twist during the 2003 season when she watched the show Carnivàle, an HBO television series about a Depression-era carnival traveling through the Dust Bowl. She noticed that no cast member had ectrodactyly. She requested, created, auditioned, and won the role of Sabina, The Scorpion Lady.

Sabina appeared in three episodes during the 2005 season. She showcases her webbed hands as the series probes public attitudes toward persons with highly visible disabilities. In Walker’s own words: “I really get to be me.” Walker based Sabina on characters she knew existed in the 1920s and 1930s carnival sideshows with names like Lobster Girl or Lobster Boy. These were typically the best jobs persons with ectrodactyly could have, with most others being hidden away.

Walker furthered her acting career in 2006 by appearing as an inspirational woman with ectrodactyly on the fourth season premiere of Nip/Tuck. She and her children were also featured on an episode of TLC’s My Unique Family.

She and former husband, NBC and HBO sportscaster, Jim Lampley jointly run Crystal Spring Productions, a film production company. She is also contributing writer for New Image magazine. Walker resides in Del Mar, California with her two children, both of whom also have ectrodactyly. Jim Lampley was her third husband. Her second husband, Robert Walker, from San Diego, California is an independent media production professional active in radio, television, and film production. She had no children with her first husband.

Walker currently hosts a liberal talk show on KTLK AM 1150 in Los Angeles on Saturdays from 2-4pm Pacific Time

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