Biography

Her 2nd husband of 9 years Charles Saatchi filed for divorce from her following the scandal over the publication of pictures showing him clutching her by the throat at a London restaurant on June 9.

It was revealed in December 2003 that she declined the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) honor for "her services to journalism and to cookery" in 2001.

She is from a Jewish family (from Latvia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria). Her family's original surname was "Leibson".

Her father is former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and her socialite mother Vanessa Salmon.

(March 2, 2001) Her husband of 9 years & father of her 2 children, 7-year-old daughter Cosima & 4-year-old son Bruno, John Diamond died from throat cancer at the age of 47.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

Diets are like boyfriends - it never works to go back to them.

A [Christmas] stocking without a pomegranate is not worth talking about.

I eat healthily. It's just that I eat enough for five healthy people.

If you're on TV, you can't be surprised if someone talks about what you look like. I don't want to be the poster girl for anything in particular, but I don't equate thinness with healthiness, so I don't feel I have to defend having flesh on me. It's really, as the French say, everything in moderation - including moderation.