Giada De Laurentiis Almost Lived a Hallmark Movie Life—Now She's the Food Network's Biggest Star
glamour.comNow it's hard to imagine Giada De Laurentiis as anything but a Food Network star. But anyone who’s lived a little knows that no matter what course your life is on, everything can change in an instant.
A party invitation you accept, a phone call you decline—even whether you return a stranger’s smile or put on your headphones instead—an action (or inaction) that unfolds in mere seconds can upend your trajectory.
In , Glamour talks to some of the most interesting women we know about the pivotal life moments that have come to determine who they are today.If Giada De Laurentiis wasn't practically the face of , she'd have opened a quaint, yet upscale Bed and Breakfast worthy of a Hallmark rom-com. “That was really what I initially thought I would do after going to cooking school and after working for different chefs,” she tells Glamour.
By “cooking school,” she means the famed Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. By “different chefs,” she means her time spent working as a pastry chef under the tutelage of culinary legends like Wolfgang Puck.
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