Deceptively Delicious

Background:

New York-born, Vermont-raised Jessica Seinfeld, born Nina Danielle Sklar, is known as the writer of the controversial cookbook “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food” (2007), which is a US bestseller. In addition, she is famous for being the wife of established comedian/actor Jerry Seinfeld, whom she married in 1999 shortly after her divorce with first husband Eric Nederlander, a Broadway theater scion, was finalized.

Jessica is the founder and president of Baby Buggy, a non-profit corporation formed in 2000. It provides clothing and gear for the babies and young children of poor women. The organization teams with 60 social services agencies to distribute almost 100,000 baby products per year.

Mrs. Seinfeld

Childhood and Family:

Jessica Seinfeld was born Nina Danielle Sklar on September 12, 1971, in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. She grew up in Burlington, Vermont, in which her father creates computer systems and databases, and her mother is an worker at the Department of Corrections. She attended and graduated from the University of Vermont.

On September 25,1995, the Long Island beauty legally changed her name from Nina to Jessica. Three years later, she married Broadway scion Eric Nederlander on June 13, 1998, but left him just week after their wedding for actor/comedian Jerry Seinfeld. After Jessica divorced from her first husband, the couple eventually married on December 25, 1999. Together, they have three children, Sascha Seinfeld (born on November 7, 2000), Julian Kal Seinfeld (born on March 1, 2003) and Shepherd Kellen Seinfeld (born on August 22, 2005).

Public Relation

Career:

A graduate of the University of Vermont, Jessica Seinfeld found work at Golden Books Entertainment as well as Tommy Hilfiger in public relation devisions. Her personal life started to become public consumption in 1998 following her romantic relationship with comedian/actor Jerry Seinfeld. Met shortly before she married Eric Nederlander, the couple embarked on an affair after Jessica returned from her honeymoon. Her husband filed for divorce in mid-October of 1998 and in early November, Jessica and Seinfeld became engaged. They finally married on December 25, the following year.

In 2007, Jessica launched a career as a book writer with the release of “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food,” a cookbook that contains strategies and recipes for making healthy food appealing to young kids. The book was a huge success, reaching No. 2 at on Amazon.com as well as No. 1 at both he USA Today best-seller list and the The New York Times Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous list. She also was invited to appear in “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Despite the success, the book drew some controversies when it was alleged that over a dozen of the same recipes in her book appeared in another author's cookbook, “The Sneaky Chef” by Missy Chase Lapine, released earlier that year.

Responding the issue, Jessica told to The New York Times, “I don’t need to copy someone’s idea. I’ve got enough going on in my life.” Her husband, Jerry Seinfeld, calls this scandal “hilarious.” He stated, “Hil-arious! Hilarious. Hilarious. I was saying to her this morning, I'm really regretting that I'm not doing the sitcom right now. 'The Puree Plagiarizer' is a Seinfeld episode: 'You stole my mushed-up carrots! I invented mushed-up carrots!' It's just absolutely a riot to me.” He added, “Unfortunately (when you) try to do things nowadays, there's always someone that comes out of the walls. My tendency is just to laugh at these people because I know what they're doing. So I don't feel threatened by it, but it's' a little harder for (Jessica). I think she's not as comfortable as I am.”

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