In an excerpt from her recently published memoir, which People magazine published, the 76-year-old star chef stated that ten years prior, in 1968, Jeffrey “expected a wife that would make dinner.”
“There were certain roles that we played, and I found them really annoying,” she stated. “I felt that if I just hit the pause button, I would get his attention.”
She claimed that when she acquired the Hamptons business and abandoned her position at the White House, where they had both worked, she “shattered” their “traditional roles” for the first time.
I continued to manage the store, shop, cook, and clean, but I was doing it as a businesswoman, not a wife,” the woman wrote. I was unable to even consider other things because of my obligations. Since I never arrived home from work, there were no rules regarding who should go home first or what to do.”
Her husband, she stated at the time, felt like a “distraction,” as he had stayed in Washington, D.C., and only visited New York on weekends.
She said, “I didn’t pay enough attention to him.” “All I wanted was for everyone to go away and let me focus on the store.” Jeffrey was a fully realized individual leading the life he desired.
