Paula Deen is swinging back at her critics by taking her fellow celebrity cooks to task. Deen, who admitted that she had Type-2 Diabetes and has had so for three years, says she has gotten zero support from any of the food network chefs.
A top food publicist told the Huffington Post ,
“The amount of chefs that would have come forward with public statements of support and sympathy would have been overwhelming if it wasn’t for the fact that Paula hid her diagnosis for three years. To only tell the truth when you have locked in a paid spokesperson deal for a non-insulin medication is just too toxic for anyone to want to be involved with.”
I am not shocked also at the lack of support. Deen makes a living out of teaching people how to cook the most fattening and unhealthy food on the planet. For three years now she promoted recipes while suffering from a disease not only caused from those type of recipes but that would kill her if she continued to eat that way. Then all of a sudden a deal emerges where she will be making millions and she is the new face of Diabetes?
Her celebrity chef friends, I am quite sure, wish her quite well on this new journey she will have fighting this disease. She will have to make better choices, eat better and try to find ways to avoid letting her disease kill her. But to now ask for support for a course of action that seems from the outside to be so selfish and self serving is asking a lot.
Do you think Paula Deen deserves support for this new course of action?
