In literally the least surprising possible news I can think of, TV chef and butter aficionado Paula Deen has Type 2 diabetes. You know, the kind you get from years of eating terrible fatty foods with no regard for what it’s doing to the part of your body I like to call “the inside stuff” (medical term). Yeah, I know. I’ll just post this block quote to give you a moment to collect yourself and pick your jaw up off the floor.
Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie, Southern cooking — is about to come clean and confess that she can’t eat her own dishes anymore because she has diabetes.
The Georgia-born chef — a Food Network star who has written five best-selling cookbooks — has been trying to keep her condition a secret, even after the National Enquirer reported in April that she has Type 2 diabetes, which is often associated with fatty foods and obesity.
Sources say Deen, 64, who never addressed the diabetes question, has worked out a multimillion-dollar deal to be the spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company and endorse the drug she is taking. [The Daily]
Oh thank God. For a minute there I was worried that the lady who advocated feeding deep fried macaroni and cheese and a cheeseburger with a donut for buns to a nation of obese kids wasn’t going to turn around and make a ridiculous amount of money off of years of unapologetic, unhealthy living. PHEW. That was a close one. A+ work, America. Keep knocking it out of the park.
(Note: Sorry, Dustin.)
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“five best-selling cookbooks”
I’m off to the hospital to find someone with lung cancer to write a few books about how to smoke. I’m gonna be rich!
Didn’t Matt already do this post like 8 months ago?
Yup. But that was before the news about her hawking diabetes medicine to treat the very problem she caused.
I should’ve added “not that I don’t want to hear DG’s take on it” because I identify with you more than Matt
*whispers* I’m a fattie!
And now I will start to check twitter every fifteen minutes to see Anthony Bourdain’s response.
Dustin must be a mess right now.
I like how she only admits she has diabetes so she can make money off hawking diabetes medicine. Paula Deen totally cares about the people who watch her show, y’all!
For a southerner she had a really shitty red velvet recipe.
That drug she’ll endorse? You guessed it: DONTEATBADFOODAX
On the bright side, when they amputate her leg, she will fry it in lard and butter and it will be DELICIOUS.
Ten comments about diabetes and nary a mention of Wilford Brimley. That has to be an Internet record. Good job, guys.
That’s because the discussion here is about diabetes. Wilfred Brimley has diabeetus. Completely different conditions. Carry on people.
Just looking at some of her food makes me feel yucky, and I’m a Southerner.
Some of it looks good, but in a “I’m going to run 10 miles to burn this off” sort of way.
As someone who does a TON of fundraising and charity efforts for diabetes (specifically JDRF, which is Type 1 diabetes but whatever) shit like this just INFURIATES me.
Isn’t someone who hawks both ridiculously unhealthy food and diabetes medicine considered a domestic terrorist?
that sucks diabetes is a horrible disease, yeah it can be avoided by eating healthy but it stil sucks floppy flaccid donkey dicks, I hope Paula starts eating and cooking healthier food from now on
I’m only being a dick about this because I’m close to the subject:
Type 2 (Paula Deen, Wilford Brimley’s Cat) is 100% avoidable, Type 1 (Jay Cutler) most certainly is not.
As a 26 year old who was never fat and is a Type 2 diabetic I’d like to mention that its not “100% avoidable.” Some of us just got shitty genes.(Thanks Mom!)
/Steps off soap box
//Still hates Paula Deen and hopes she has a coronary
Touche, twig. My apologies.
twig; thank you: into fitness for thirty years and have it. You can be genetically predisposed to it.
Hawking diabetes medication is at least more civilized than the alternative 6th cookbook “Southern Fried Amputations.” Although much less delicious.
“Just looking at some of her food makes me feel yucky, and I’m a Southerner.”
I wish I could find Bourdain’s quote from Medium Raw about what a sham these fat fucks are when they hide behind their “southern home cookin’” bullshit. As if all southerners eat is fried lard.
This also conveniently coincides with her dippy son’s new show about how to make her signature dishes healthy.
Paula Deen is all about choice. You can choose to give into food temptations, the risk is dibettus. Living the way you want in the face of terrible consequences and then turning around and speaking out about the reality of those consequences and making money off of it is the American dream.
If I remember correctly, someone on these boards was calling her a ‘national treasure’ not too long ago.
Alot of her food looked absolutely disgusting. National treasure? Not so much.
That was Pajiba Skip Bayless not DG
She’s about as much of a national treasure as the movie “National Treasure.”
Masterful.
Some of Ms. Deen’s best sellers include:
“How to Cook Humans.”
“How to Cook For Humans.”
“How to Cook Forty Humans.”
“How to Cook For Forty Humans.”