Beth Ditto isn't exactly someone who does things the conventional way. She broke the mold of what a female lead singer in a rock band should look like, and she also broke the mold of conventional marriage. As an outspoken advocate of LGBT lifestyles, she's on record as saying 'Standing in The Way of Control' - the biggest hit of her old band Gossip - was a call-to-action against the Government of the time's legislation against same-sex marriage.
Walking it like she talked it, Ditto married her girlfriend (and best friend since she was 18) Kristin Ogata in Hawaii in 2013. The couple both wore white to the wedding. Seventeen months later their home state of Oregon legalized gay marriage, so a mere seventeen months after their first wedding they walked down the aisle again! We hope they didn't expect all the guests to buy them a fresh set of presents, considering the ceremonies were so close together.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.