We have spent hours up on hours watching Nigella Lawson make things we would never even attempt but unlike many celebrity chefs, it appears that she actually indulges in her fabulous creations.
Although the Domestic Goddess recently lost a whopping three stone, she said she will never lose her well-known curves because she associates being skinny with death.
Nigella hasn’t had the easiest of lives, having lost her first husband John to cancer 2001 and both her sister Thomasina and her mother Vanessa died of the disease.
Nigella Lawson said skinniness reminds her of death
The curvy chef revealed all in Radio Times.
“I’m always going to be going be someone who goes up and down. I don’t equate thinness with healthiness, as other people do, because I’ve only ever seen people get thin and die,” she said.
Nigella said her husband John forced her to get over her shyness when he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997.
“I had to be his voice and I found that hard,” she said.
The Food Network favourite married her husband Charles Saatchi in 2003 but said that the death of her first husband was extremely difficult.
“For anyone who has seen three people they love a lot die, the cliché of survivor guilt is strong but it doesn’t bring them back,” she said.
Nigella also spoke about the difficulties of parenting her two children Cosima, 18 and Bruno, 16. The chef is also a stepmother to Charles’ daughter Phoebe.
“People who don’t have children imagine that their whole lives would be all right if they had children, but they don’t realise that having children gives you lots of problems; one is constant worry.”
Nigella said parenting her children including Cosmina (above) is hard
“Also I think it’s impossible to be a mother without a huge sense of failure.
“Not that I think of my children as failures. I think they’re wonderful. But one is always aware of what one isn’t doing right.”
“I was really helped by a friend recently because I was thinking, ‘Oh, God, I’m not strict enough’… and this friend said to me, ‘Look, Nigella, you don’t choose whether to be a strict mother or not, you really are what you are. It’s not a decision.’”
Naturally, Nigella revealed that she has instilled good manners, both table and otherwise, into her offspring.
Nigella’s latest show Nigellissima will air on BBC2 later this month
“Although I’m pretty easygoing about most things, I do think manners are important, and being kind. And they make me laugh, and that’s quite important. So I like the people they are.”
The Domestic Goddess’ latest Italian-inspired show, Nigellissima, will premiere on BBC2 on September 24 and we can hardly wait for the exciting array of new recipes she has up her sleeve.
Do you agree with Nigella? Is being skinny overrated?
