Ina Garten, commonly known as the 'Barefoot Contessa,' is opening up about her dark childhood and why she feared her father would kill her.
Ina Garten is a warrior inside and outside the kitchen, sharing the battle wounds she walked away with as a child. 'I think I overcame my childhood just by sheer determination,' Garten told People magazine ahead of the release of her memoir. 'I had two different lives. I had a life at home, and I had a great life at school.' She described her early life as a 'dichotomy' between bad and good.
My father used to say, ‘Being a parent isn’t a popularity contest,' which was to justify that what he wanted us to do, we should do. With no questions. … Not even looking at what the child wanted to do. It was, 'We should do what he wanted us to do.’ And I just — that's not the way I'm built. I like to do what I want to do. And so I think that made it really difficult.
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