Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis Opens Up About Life Post-Marriage

After almost a year, Giada De Laurentiis is opening up about her divorce.

Chef and Food Network star, Giada De Laurentiis is a single mother now. She and her fashion designer-husband Todd Thompson split in December 2014. They had been married for 11 years. Now, she is talking about her new life in Dr. Oz's magazine The Good Life.

Giada admits that she is still figuring out how to navigate life on her own.

“We had been together since I was 19; I’m now 45. That’s a lifetime with someone. It was a very difficult time. I don’t have the answers; I’m figuring them out as I go. I’m also afraid, like many other women who go through this, and men, too, for that matter.”

At 45 years old, Giada says that she has learned plenty about being a single mother who continues to work. She is also learning take care of household challenges like fixing the water heater or hooking up a television.

"Every challenge is an opportunity to become stronger and believe in yourself more. That’s what it’s about: believing in yourself.”