A young Italian girl found her love for cooking in her homes kitchen and her grandparent’s restaurant. Giada De Laurentiis was born in Rome, Italy on August 22, 1970. Her mother an actress named Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband Alex De Beneditti an actor-producer. Giada’s Grandfather had a very well-known restaurant called DDL Foodshow, where Giada found herself a lot. When Giada’s parents got divorced, her mother moved her family to southern California. As an adult she married a fashion designer named Todd Thompson. They had a baby girl named Jade Thompson. Recently they both divorced. Being a home grown Italian she specializes in Italian food. She says she is a self-proclaimed chocoholic. With the Italian in her blood and her…show more content… She then started working as a food stylist, where she styled a piece for the magazine Food and Wine. When the food network saw her work on the magazine they were impressed and decided to contact her. Everyday Italian was her first show on the food network channel. It aired April 5, 2003. It was focused on making Italian food on your daily basis and making it easy and delicious. She then began to host Behind the Bash on October 2006. This show focused on showing the reality of a catering business when they did huge events like the Grammys. On January 2007 she started her show named Giada’s Weekend Getaways. This show was mainly about her traveling to local destinations and showing her viewers her favorite places to eat and what their specialties were, as well as what she enjoyed eating at the restaurant. November 2006 she competed along side with Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. They didn’t win, they lost to Mario Batalli and Rachel Ray. She went on to be a presenter at the Food Network Awards on June 2007. Most recently not culinary related Giada voiced the character of Gelata on a Tinker Bell special Pixie Hollow Bake Off. From all her hard work she won a variety of awards. She won: a Daytime Emmy (2008), Daytime Emmy award for outstanding lifestyle host nominee (2010 and 2012), a Gracie award (2012) and was inducted into the culinary hall of fame in
