Overview
- On Nov. 25, Garten told the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast she has no regrets about not having children, saying she “couldn’t imagine” her life any other way.
- HELLO! magazine published a Nov. 25 profile revisiting her 57-year marriage to Jeffrey Garten, their East Hampton and Paris homes, and longtime fan-favorite details.
- Ina and Jeffrey met in 1963 at Dartmouth, married in December 1968, spent a year apart during his Army posting in Thailand, and later settled in Washington, D.C.
- She previously discussed the choice in a 2023 BBC interview, tying it to her childhood and to the life she built through Barefoot Contessa, a Food Network show, and more than ten cookbooks.
- Jeffrey Garten is an economist and former U.S. official, now Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Management, with prior service in multiple administrations and senior roles at Lehman Brothers and Blackstone.