In this extended cut, Ina Garten opens up to TODAY's Hoda Kotb about her difficult childhood, why she says her life 'started' when she married Jeffrey, how she found her voice in the competitive culinary world and more.
Was Ina Garten lucky, or did she make her own luck? Garten concludes her memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” with an interaction with Oprah Winfrey centering around that very question. The memoir traces how she blossomed into the beloved pop culture entity the Barefoot Contessa, known for her open-armed hospitality — despite a frigid, fear-filled childhood.
” While introducing the next guest, Lesley Stahl riffed off the interaction between Garten and Winfrey and asked, “‘Why do successful women always say they’re lucky, and successful men say they got there by the force of their talent?” Garten remembers thinking, “Wait? Did Lesley Stahl just smack me, too?” Weeks later, during a dinner with director Rob Marshall, Garten heard about the time Liza Minelli told 23-year-old Marshall to “Be ready when the luck happens.
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