Paula deen net worth
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Paula Deen
Paula Deen is a Savannah-based restaurateur, author, and television personality. Her cooking and businesses have won both praise and criticism, especially after her past use of racial slurs and promotion of high-sugar recipes while being diabetic became known.
Paula Ann Hiers was born in Albany on January 19, 1947, to Corrie and Earl Hiers. She spent her early childhood at River Bend, a small resort in Dougherty County owned by her grandparents. Her father worked at a car dealership, and her mother and grandmother ran the restaurant at River Bend. Although the young Paula often wanted to help in the kitchen, her mother found the child’s presence disruptive due to Paula’s need to “be in control of [the] pots.” She graduated from Albany High School in 1965 and at age eighteen married Jimmy Deen, whom she met in high school. Her first son, Jamie, was born in 1967, followed three years later by another son, Bobby.
Soon after the birth of her second son, Deen began to suffer from depression and fear of public places, and she often used cooking
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Paula Deen
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Who Is Paula's Dean?
From Paula’s Home Cooking to Top Chef, Paula Deen was a fixture on the Food Network for more than a decade. She has also written several books on Southern cooking, as well as a memoir, and has started her own magazine, Cooking with Paula Deen. Following a racially charged controversy that led to her departure from the Food Network, she returned to TV hosting in 2016 with Positively Paula.
Early Life
Born on January 19, 1947, in Albany, Georgia, Paula Deen went to Albany High School and married her first husband after graduating in 1965. Her parents both died by the time she was 23, a loss that led Deen into panic attacks and chronic agoraphobia. She retreated into her cooking, eventually starting a home-based catering business, The Bag Lady, with her two sons serving as deliverymen.
The Bag Lady was a hit, and its popularity forced Deen to expand beyond the confines of her kitchen. In January 1996, she opened her own restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in downtown Savannah, which she ran with her two sons. By 1999, USA Today h
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Paula Deen
Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!
Courage, hard work and a hefty dollop of good luck combined to move Paula Deen from delivering lunches to local businesses to owning Savannah's most famous restaurant, authoring three best selling cookbooks and starring on her own television show, "Paula's Home Cooking." Hers is the inspiring tale of a woman who, with the support and love of her family, took control of her life and discovered her destiny. It is about a woman who broke through 20 years locked in the nightmare of agoraphobia to find the courage to challenge her fears through actions that have propelled her into the national spotlight. In 1989, an unhappy Paula Deen with a failing marriage took stock of her life to see how she might provide for herself and her two sons. The only thing she was sure of was that she was a good cook. As a girl reared in the Deep South, Paula had been taught culinary skills by women in her family. Southern cooking was her heritage, and it now became her hope. With an investment of $200 and wit
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