Cristina’s newest literary adventure

“My Model Kitchen”

A New York Times best-selling author, TV personality, Model, accomplished chef, homemaker, entrepreneur, food blogger, commercial spokesperson, and an advocate for women’s health and well-being for over 40 years.

At the early age of sixteen, Cristina Ferrare was offered a contract to model with the powerful Ford Modeling Agency in New York. They sent her photos to Max Factor who immediately put her under contract as their spokesperson and never she looked back. Her career took off as she graced the covers of every major fashion magazine.  Cristina traveled the world as a sought-after international cover girl and commercial spokesperson representing countless brands.

Her successful career as a supermodel spanned over twenty-five years.

In the early 80’s, Cristina co-hosted “AM Los Angeles”, which became the #1 rated morning television show during her five-year tenure. Between many TV appearances, she has hosted her own shows: “Cristina and Friends”, and a two-hour live show from Universal Studios, Emmy nominated “Home and Family”. Cristina was a substitute co-host on “Good Morning America” and with Regis Philbin as his substitute co-host on “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee”. Her primetime series for CBS, “Shame on You”, was one of the first magazine-formatted shows that featured consumer fraud.  It set the stage for other prime-time magazine formats that followed. For NBC, Cristina co-hosted “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” with Dr. Drew Pinsky.

At one time, Cristina had three shows on the air at the same time, “AM Los Angeles”, “The Home Show”, and the primetime series, “Incredible Sunday”, all for ABC.

In feature films, Cristina starred opposite David Niven in “The Impossible Years”, and the critically acclaimed, “J.W. Coop” with Oscar winner, Cliff Robertson.

Cristina is an accomplished author. Her book, “Okay So I Don’t Have a Headache” put her on the “New York Times” best sellers list. Other books include best seller “Cristina Ferrare’s, “Family Entertainment”, and “A Big Bowl of Love” which received rave reviews from bloggers across the country. Oprah Winfrey highly endorsed the book and gave her a cooking show on her OWN network titled “A Big Bowl of Love”.

Cristina completed a series of Kellogg commercials for OWN and appeared with her Kellogg recipes and image on over 20 million Kellogg cereal boxes. Though she appeared on many covers of fashion magazines, she said having her picture on the back of the box cereal with her childhood friends,  Snap, Krackle, and Pop, was definitely a high light!

In the last few years, Cristina joined forces with Maria Shriver on the importance of brain, heart, and gut health through food. This is a project that is extremely close to both their hearts. Maria lost her father and Cristina her mother to Alzheimer’s Disease.  Upon research and educating herself on Alzheimer’s it became abundantly clear that what you eat, and how you treat your body plays an important  role  in the health of your brain. She followed what she calls,  The Holy Trinity, brain, heart, and gut health that led her to her next book

Cristina sixth best seller and her favorite book, “FOOD FOR THOUGHT was released in the fall of 2018, and quickly became the #1 best-selling cook book on Amazon for “Brain Health”.

A portion of the proceeds from the book went to, “The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement”.

In 2016 Cristina was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the plasma of the blood. It’s not curable, yet, but manageable.  She underwent a stem cell replacement at City of Hope LA, in 2017 and has been in remission ever since. She speaks about her journey and helps others through speaking engagements and through social media to cope with cancer and its effect on family life.  She is devoted and passionate to this call.

Not one to stop or slow her down, she used her time in the hospital after a stem cell replacement to work on her book, “Food for Thought”                       

Cristina was the keynote speaker at the” Influencers of Midlife Summit” in LAS Vegas where she addressed women over 50 getting back into the workforce. She has always been an advocate for women no matter what age. If you thought a bout with cancer would stop her onward motion into the next chapter in her book of life, it did not.

Cristina at 73 was asked by a top New York Modeling agency, ICONIC FOCUS MODELS to once again model and show the world that women are ageless!

Cristina is producing with Legible Publishing a series of digital-only interactive “Living Cookbooks” entitled My Model Kitchen. This new venture is the embodiment of innovation and passion for bringing unique, interactive recipes to readers worldwide. The books will contain a cutting-edge AI ingredient, Cristina’s sou chef, which will answer any recipe question.