Report: Butter Queen Paula Deen Has Diabetes

We all want to Paula, we all want to (via the ever awesome Paula Deen Riding Things).

Oh, Paula Deen. The queen of Southern butter-based cooking may well have a secret. Last April the National Enquirer reported that the Food Network star was suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and she never responded, now The Daily thinks it knows why. The iPad paper is reporting Deen "has worked out a multimillion-dollar deal to be the spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company and endorse the [diabetes] drug she is taking."

Nobody is talking just yet from Deen's camp (or from drug company Novartis), but the Daily's source says that "Paula Deen is going to have to reposition herself now that she has diabetes. She’s going to have to start cooking healthier recipes. She can’t keep pushing mac and cheese and deep-fried Twinkies when she is hawking a diabetes drug." If this is all true, we'll find out soon enough.

It isn't like Deen isn't used to getting flack for her far-from-healthy fare and, as The Daily also points out, she seems to already have made moves to correct her image: Her son Bobby Deen just kicked off a show on the Cooking Network called Not My Mama's Meals in which he cooks up lighter versions of his mother's infamous recipes.

Anyway, if this all turns out to be true we would love for Deen to be the new Wilford Brimley:

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By Garth Johnston in Food on January 13, 2012 1:03 PM

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"Tim Osman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

taracorinne

She'd have to severely reduce the carbs if she ups the fat, however.

I do low carb because type 2 runs in both sides of my family and I hope to reduce my chances. It's hard avoiding breads and cakes but man is it nice having full-fat dairy!

taracorinne

meant to reply above.

taracorinne

I still laugh at John Goodman's Wilford Brimley impersonation on SNL every time I see it. Strangely enough, reading the script is even funnier.

Spirit of 76

Another possibility may be that she ups the fat content of her recipes. Low carb ketogenic diets have been shown in the past to be effective treatments for type 2 diabetes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

Christiane Truelove

Paula may have diabetes, but she won't be working for Novartis. Their main diabetes drug isn't even approved in the US. Corp comms is asking The Daily for a correction, my sources say.

CurmudgeonNYC

In other news, water is wet. Hopefully she will survive to breed a new herd of water buffaloes before she succumbs.

theonlyseven

I dont believe it. Next someone will tell me Kim Kardashian has herpes.

FU Boy

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Dan Smith

I like this one too.

CMYKevin

The honorable thing to do would be for Paula to take her Pharma money and use it to solve the Norwegian Butter Crisis.

krinklecutfires

Photoshopping brilliance!

Jereremy

Say word?

Jacquie Tellalian

as a Type 2 diabetic, it infuriates me too. don't these people have enough money? seems like she'd get more praise for being honest and stop cooking the old southern crap we know is bad for you. I'll be curious to see which drug she'll be hawking though -

Sugarbop

But just because she cooks it, doesn't mean you or anyone else has to eat it. Why can't everyone take responsibility for their own actions? Let her keep cooking the way she wants and who wants to make it themselves, makes it and who doesn't doesn't. Simple, heh?

Drew Guarini

As a type 1 diabetic, this entire article infuriates me beyond belief.

Rocknrope

Shocking news.

FU Boy

"She can’t keep pushing mac and cheese and deep-fried Twinkies when she is hawking a diabetes drug" - Can't she now?

"Eat what you want, then take this little pill! And if you get a little big just staple your stomach! 0% Responsibility Now!"

PrettyAmiable

0% responsibility? No pill nor stomach stapling is going to put your foot back on when they have to amputate it due to diabetes-related complications.

FU Boy

Well, you and I know that. But you also probably know a large amount of Diabetics are non-compliant with Doctor's orders. So they don't make any change to their diets, don't try to exercise, slowly degrade until their eyes are shot and their limbs are being lopped off.

Most with this condition do continue on with their lives without change. Not trying to fix or control, just keep on ignoring the problem - I'd call that 0% responsibility.