Of all the wild women of rock and roll, Courtney Love has to be seen as the matriarch. Nobody has ever been as wild or notorious as Love. With her band Hole, she was part of the grunge scene of the mid-1990s, with her marriage to Nirvana star Kurt Cobain making them the power couple of the alternative music scene. Their marriage was messy, and fraught with drug addiction and disagreement. Cobain took his own life in 1994, and some of his die-hard fans accused Love of murdering him. That just seemed to drive her further off the rails.
Her own music career was mostly dried up by the early 2000s, and by 2012 things had deteriorated financially for her to the point where she owed big money to the IRS, as well as nearly $30m in legal fees for various issues. She's paying it all off in installments, which mostly come from the money that her ex-husband's estate pays to her.
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.