For all the fun details, read on.) In April, she and Todd will welcome a baby girl.īut as for now, here she sits, fresh from a morning appearance on Today, cheerfully taking the top off a scone. (She got on the phone with us for a second interview. Days after we met, Giada revealed to REDBOOK that she's pregnant. But it's a schedule that may have to change soon. home - which she shares with her husband, Todd Thompson, a clothing designer at Anthropologie - to New York City to tape Today. These days, Giada jets back and forth from her L.A. When she wrote about her family for Food & Wine, her photo appeared in the pages, and the Food Network came calling. On the side, she styled food for magazines. to work at various restaurants before starting her own catering company. After graduating from UCLA, she attended the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in France, then returned to L.A. Born in Rome, she grew up in Los Angeles in a large, food-obsessed Italian family headed by her grandfather, film producer Dino De Laurentiis. Of course, Giada hasn't come this far on personality alone. And if all that weren't enough, she recently joined the Today show, making regular appearances as a coanchor during the new fourth hour. She also has three best-selling cookbooks: Everyday Italian, Everyday Pasta, and Giada's Family Dinners, with another due out in the fall of 2008.

The 37-year-old's natural joie de vivre percolates through her shows Everyday Italian (now entering its 11th season), Giada's Weekend Getaways, and Behind the Bash (which gives behind-the-scenes scoop from high-end parties). Women throng her book signings by the hundreds and invite her to their dinner parties. Grandmas, in denial that she's happily married, want to set her up with their grandsons. Giada's instant approachability is, in a nutshell, the key to her runaway popularity. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play

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