Ina Garten reveals on why she and Husband Jeffrey didn’t have any Children: ‘It Was a Choice I Made Very Early’!!

Ina Garten, our favorite Food Network host has been open about her personal life and has gathered some famous friends.
But in one of the episodes of Katie Couric’s podcast, she opened some of her personal information.
She and her husband, Jeffrey Garten, always planned on leading a child-free life.
Mr. Jeffrey teaches the global economy at the Yale School of Management.

Hear all about her story!

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Ian Garten about Childfree life

In Katie Couric’s show, Ina revealed that she along with her husband has decided not to have any children. She says,

“We decided not to have children. I really appreciate that other people do, and we will always have friends that have children that we are close to, but it was a choice I made very early.”

The Barefoot Contessa host and Jeffrey Garten, 72, have been married for 52 years; they first met when Jeffrey was a student at Dartmouth College and Garten was just 16 years old.

When asked why the couple opted not to have children, Garten responded,

“I really felt, I feel, that I would have never been able to have the life I’ve had [with children].”

Garten has also hosted the Emmy-winning cooking show and has 10 cookbooks to her name also a very enviable house in the Hamptons.

Source: the live eye(Ina Garten and Jeffrey Garten during their wedding)

Ina and her Husband Jeffrey living a happy life

Although they could have been great parents giving all the facility and value to the children despite the potential stigma that Garten and her husband could have faced for deciding to live their lives without children, the celebrity chef is very lucky and insists that her friends and family have been accepting.

Source: WSJ(Ina Garten and Jeffrey Garten)

“I never felt that people [judged us]. I think the one thing that we miss [out on] is a lot of people’s friends are the parents of their kids’ friends. So we never had that connection with other people that I see … that network. But no, I never felt judged by it. Maybe people did, but I didn’t notice.”

The couple has been living a very happy and healthy life, enjoying every part of living together and working hard on the relationship to this point to lead to a successful marriage.

Garten shared the secret of their marriage,

“The secret is that you just take care of each other and admire each other and support each other, and you get that back. If Jeffrey and I disagree on something, he always agrees with me!”

We have respect for our favorite Food Network star for her bold choice and ability to stand to her plan for her life. We wish the couple a happy life and live together happily as they are now!

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Short Bio on Ina Garten:

Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American author and host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and a former staff member of the White House Office of Management and Budget. More bio…

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