Kristen Kreuk

Kristen Kreuk

OK, you've caught us, we're cheating by including Kristen. She wasn't a star of the 90s. But until we admitted to that you thought she was, right? Kristen didn't actually appear on TV until 2001, when she worked her way into all of our hearts as Lana Lang in Smallville. She stayed on in the role for nine years, seeing it almost all the way through its TV run, and breaking her way into film in the meantime.

She hasn't found breaking into other areas as easy as her peers, although she's played the iconic Street Fighter character "Chun-Li" in a movie, and currently holds down a major role in "Burden of Truth", which she took coming right off the back of her success in "Beauty and the Beast". Still in her 30s, and looking as fresh as she ever did, her name was only slightly tarnished by association with Allison Mack, and her part in the NXIVM scandal.

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Did You Know...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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