- Born
- Birth nameMarcela Luz Valladolid
- Height5′ 1½″ (1.56 m)
- Marcela Valladolid Rodriguez was born in San Diego, California, to Antonio Valladolid a corporate attorney and a successful businessman in Tijuana, Baja California and to her mother, whom is the daughter of a successful Tijuana entrepreneur.
Marcela has an older brother named Antonio and an older sister named Karina. Marcela is the youngest in her family.
Marcela studied in schools both in Mexico and the U.S., and performed graduate studies in culinary arts in France.
Marcela has become well known in the Mexican media although she has expressed little interest in being involved in Television projects that are distant from her true passion of haute cuisine.
- IMDb mini biography by: BreakMan
- SpouseFausto Gallardo(? - 2013) (divorced, 1 child)
- Has 3 children: a son Fausto Gallardo (b. April 27, 2004) with her ex-husband Fausto Gallardo; a son David Button-Valladolid (b. April 9, 2015) an a daughter Anna Carina Button-Valladolid (b. December 5, 2016) with her fiancé Philip Button. Her daughter's name was inspired by Anna Karenina, the novel, which was the same inspiration that her mom had for her sister Carina. "...when the baby was born, I said, 'I want to name her Anna Karenina, but I feel like it's complicated and I'd rather [it] be Carina, so it's like my sister.' ".
- Raised in Mexico, she teaches cooking classes to over 40 students in her Tijuana, Mexico home while also running a catering company.
- A former food editor and recipe stylist for "Bon Appetit" magazine.
- Graduated as a "Certified Cook" from the Los Angeles Culinary Institute and her training has taken her to Paris, where she graduated as a classical French pastry chef from the Ritz Escoffier Cooking School.
- In Tijuana after returning from a month-long trip to New York to fulfill her contract with the producers of The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (2005).
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