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Everyday Italian star Giada De Laurentiis graces the cover of the May issue of Redbook magazine.

The chef extraordinaire dishes on family life with her husband of 7 years, fashion designer Todd Thompson, and their 14-month-old daughter Jade. It seems little Jade has inherited her mom's culinary love: "She sits on my hip when I cook," Giada, 38, says."And there's such amazement in her eyes."

Here are some of the interview highlights:

On how motherhood has changed her: "Well, it definitely changed my workload. Ha! But at the end of the day, I think I was more selfish before I had Jade. Kids help you become more compassionate. I joined the charity Oxfam, which helps to improve kids' lives all over the world. I realized that I wanted this world to be better. I stopped thinking of just my own mortality; I started thinking about the life we're leaving for someone else."

On cooking with kids: "Jade and I cook together. She crawls around me in the kitchen. Now she's at a point where she wants to see what's happening, so I pick her up. I give her little tastes of the food and she's like, 'Mmm!' Sometimes there's nothing on the spoon and she still goes, 'Mmm!'"

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