Jeff Bezos has been a proud older brother since long before he founded Amazon. Jeff's mother, Jacklyn Bezos, welcomed him in 1964, while she was married to her first husband, Ted Jorgensen.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his mother, Jacklyn Bezos, stand behind a model of Blue Origin’s recovery ship with a scale-model rocket on its deck — and the actual ship in the background.

Despite these hurdles, Jacklyn persevered, graduating from high school and shortly after divorcing Bezos’s biological father, Ted Jorgensen. She supported herself and her son by working as a ...

Jeff Bezos credits his parents, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos, with much of his success. The entrepreneur was born in January 1964 to Jacklyn and her first husband, Ted Jorgensen, who wed as teenagers. But ...

In 2022, Blue Origin scrapped Jacklyn, a former cargo ship renamed after Bezos' mother, that the company once planned to use as a landing ship.

The Jacklyn is necessary because New Glenn’s first stage is reusable. In fact, the rocket’s first stage is designed to be reused up to 25 times.

Jacklyn Bezos gave birth to Jeff at just 17 years old while still in high school. The school administration tried to kick her out, but she refused to accept it.

His mother, Jacklyn Bezos, and her husband Miguel, gifted $710 million to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in 2022.

"I won the lottery with my mom. Thanks for literally everything," Bezos declared in a heartfelt X post on Mother's Day 2017. Jacklyn Bezos had Jeff when she was only 17, defying the odds from day one.

Jeff Bezos has been a proud older brother since long before he founded Amazon. Jeff's mother, Jacklyn Bezos, welcomed him in 1964, while she was married to her first husband, Ted Jorgensen.

Jeff Bezos credits his parents, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos, with much of his success. The entrepreneur was born in January 1964 to Jacklyn and her first husband, Ted Jorgensen, who wed as teenagers.