Ina Garten Reveals Deliberate Choice She Made in Marriage

Source: Christopher Testani via People
In an interview with Katie Couric on the Katie Couric Podcast, Ina Garten – star of Food Network’s Barefoot Contessa revealed the reason she never had children.

So much fun cooking with @KatieCouric for her podcast last weekend! You can listen at https://t.co/HDa82Q4LVy – hope you love it!! pic.twitter.com/ZI2lhbe0Mp

— Ina Garten (@inagarten) April 20, 2017

The chef and cookbook author who has been married to husband Jeffrey for 48 years said the choice to not have children was a “deliberate choice.”
Ina explained, “I really appreciate that other people do, and we will always have friends that have children that we are close to, but it was choice I made very early. I really felt – I feel – that I would never have been able to have the life I’ve had. And so it’s a choice, and that was the choice I made.”
Ina and her husband Jeffrey met when she was just sixteen. They were married in 1968.

Frozen Hot Chocolate is the perfect last minute dessert for your sweetheart! #CookingforJeffrey https://t.co/lmkmzj8XXO

— Ina Garten (@inagarten) February 14, 2017

Ina also revealed her secret to a happy marriage, telling the Katie Couric Podcast, “The secret is that you just take care of each other, and admire each other, and support each other, and you get that back.”