Ayesha Curryis standing up to all her doubters.
The celebrity chef — who ismarried to NBA star Steph Curry— has published a best-selling cookbook, co-ownsthree restaurants, and is set to star onABC’sFamily Food Fight, but still, she says, there are those who question her place in the culinary spotlight.
“I think a lot of people do not take me seriously,” says the mom todaughters Riley, 5, and Ryan, 3, and son Canon, 10 months, inWorking Mother‘s June/July cover story. “They think this is something I’ve obtained because of my husband’s income. That’s not true. He hasn’t invested a dime in my restaurant business.”
Curry shared a particularly frustrating time when a male reporter “bashed” her on live television, telling her she should “be more like the other [basketball] players’ wives,” she recalled. “He literally said, ‘They sit there, they don’t cause any problems, and they look pretty.’”
“Why am I not allowed to have a passion and a dream and a voice?” she added. “That started a fire in me. I could not be stopped, and I wanted to prove myself.”
And prove herself she has. The Food Network star has since added a cookware line and meal kit to her resume, and is working on opening a fourth location of her barbecue restaurant, International Smoke, in Del Mar, California, in June. Her hard work is paying off, too: The critics have quieted a bit.
“Stephen doesn’t get any negative [questions] about me,” she toldWorking Mother. “Especially in the Bay Area, people say to him, ‘I like her food a lot,’ and that’s been special for me.”
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source: people.com
