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Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Contessa lives in California with her dog. Ina Garten gets candid about her longtime marriage to husband Jeffrey in her new memoir, sharing that the two were once on the brink of divorce before she proposed a separation.

This was during the s, husband Garten left her job as a nuclear budget analyst at the White House to run Barefoot Contessa, barefoot was a small specialty food shop in the Hamptons at the time. My responsibilities made it impossible for me to even think about anything else. There was no expectation about who got home from work first and what they should do, because I never got home from work!

Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. She continues, "When Jeffrey came on weekends he was a distraction. I just wanted everyone to leave me alone so I could concentrate on the store.

Jeffrey was fully formed and living the life he wanted to live. I needed that freedom. Calling it "the hardest thing I ever did," Garten says, "I told him that Gay needed to be on my own.

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In true Jeffrey form, he said, 'If you feel like you need to be on your own, you need to do it. I buried my emotions and threw myself into my work. When the shop closed for the winter, Garten moved back to Washington, D. They were in a "a painful limbo," Garten recounts.

He was just doing what every man before him had done. I had changed. The two attended therapy together, and, of course, have remained together ever since. Garten wed her husband — often a fixture on her Food Network shows, including Barefoot Contessa — in She has also credited her partner of over five decades for helping her make the plunge with her career pivot at the age of Top Stories.

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