Does Giada have full custody of her daughter? Who has custody of Giada’s daughter?

Giada De Laurentiis and Todd Thompson share joint custody over their daughter, Jade, who was 7 years old at the time of their split.

Following her graduation from Marymount High School in Los Angeles, Giada De Laurentiis went on to pursue her bachelor’s degree in social anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, which she completed in 1996.

De Laurentiis attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, to pursue a career as a pastry chef. Giada De Laurentiis’s daytime cooking show on the Food Network, Everyday Italian, premiered April 5, 2003.

De Laurentiis also started hosting Behind the Bash in October 2005. Giada De Laurentiis made several appearances as a guest judge on the third season of The Next Food Network Star, which aired in 2007.

In July 2014, De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant, called GIADA, inside The Cromwell in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2010, De Laurentiis came out with a line of kitchen supplies, exclusively for Target.

In 2017, she launched an e-commerce platform called Giadzy.com. On June 26, 2020, De Laurentiis’ Food Network series Giada Entertains won a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Culinary Series.