What We Know About Lauren Sánchez Bezos' Total Opposite Younger Sister, Elena

It might be easy to sometimes forget that Lauren Sánchez Bezos has a stunning younger sister, Elena Sánchez Blair, because of their completely different life experiences. Their upbringing wasn't entirely the same, either. Blair hadn't even been born when Sánchez Bezos' parents, Ray Sánchez and Eleanor Sánchez, divorced. Ray would eventually get married again. Afterwards, he and his subsequent wife brought Blair into the world when Sánchez Bezos was around 13. But unlike her sister, who strived for media stardom, Blair seemed to aim for more traditional and low-key work.

She received a bachelor's degree from Seattle University and worked as a registered nurse for a number of years. Although it was a far cry from Sánchez Bezos' much more lavish lifestyle, Blair maintained that she and her older sister share a tight bond. "My sister and I are so close that our relationship is sometimes hard for others to understand. It's hard to describe. We get into our own world instantly when we are together and when we aren't together we talk on the phone at least 2 times a day, usually more," she posted on her Instagram to celebrate Sánchez Bezos' birthday. Sadly, Sánchez Bezos doesn't have as good of a relationship with her brother, Michael.

Elena Sánchez Blair has gone through quite the career transition. After working as a nurse for a decade, she became a photographer. She initially took photography classes after her husband at the time bought her a camera. "I loved everything about it but assumed I would never have a dark room of my own. After the class, I put photography on the back burner," Blair said in an interview with Click Community. However, this changed when her son was born and her house was broken into shortly afterwards. In considerable debt at the time, the birth of her son and the burglary inspired Blair to pursue photography more vigorously. Once she succeeded, Blair also became an educator and offered classes to help other aspiring photographers achieve their goals.

Moreover, her love life underwent as big a shift as her career. Blair has experienced the same type of heartache as her sister Lauren Sánchez Bezos, who divorced her first husband, Patrick Whitesell, in 2019. Blair also ended up divorcing her own longtime husband, and she described the process as one of her biggest challenges. Fortunately, however, Blair's family was there to lift her spirits through the ordeal. They helped her realize that, just because she and her husband divorced, it didn't necessarily make their marriage a failure. "I have the most supportive, non-judgmental, loving family on this planet," she posted on her Facebook when reflecting on her hard times.