(NewsNation) — Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis has called out Mario Batali for degrading comments on her body he made in her cookbook.

De Laurentiis was on Samah Dada’s YouTube show “On the Menu” where she remembered asking Batali to write the foreword for her 2005 cookbook, “Everyday Italian,” which is when the chef said her success was because of her looks.

“This is a person we’re not supposed to talk about, but we’re going to,” De Laurentiis said about Batali in a TikTok clip.

“When I read it, I cried because I realized, ‘Oh, he’s basically saying that I’ve gotten to where I’ve gotten, and I’ve had this little bit of success that I had, because I have big boobs, and that if he had boobs, he would even be much further,'” the Food Network star said.

Adding, “Because I’m like, a jok

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