Kim Holderness was born and raised in Florida, and was a competitive dancer. She went to the University of Florida, then began her career in TV journalism. 
Penn Holderness was born in Durham, North Carolina, to a Presbyterian minister and a public school teacher. He went to the University of Virginia, then started a two-decade career in TV journalism. 
Penn and Kim met in Orlando while working in local news and were married in 2005. Currently they own their own company, Holderness Family Productions.
In popular culture.
In December 2014, Saturday Night Live aired a skit spoofing the Holderness Family called “Christmas Sweatpants”. Taran Killam, Amy Adams, Kyle Mooney, and Kate McKinnon played the Tenderfeld Family, wearing identical pajamas to those worn by the Holderness Family in their first viral video.