Jessica Seinfeld

On September 25, 1996, she legally changed her first name to Jessica from Nina.

Jessica got married to a theatrical producer, Eric Nederlander in June 1998 whom she had been dating for around five years.

Just after returning from the honeymoon, she started going around with Jerry Seinfeld who she had met just a few months before at a Reebok Sports Club. In October 1998, just four months after the marriage, Eric filed for divorce.

Born as Nina Danielle Sklar in Oyster Bay, New York on September 12, 1971, Jessica is the second of the three daughters of her parents.

Her father was a computer software engineer while her mother was employed at Hunt Middle School as an attendance officer and was a social worker well-known for her work for more than 50 years in Burlington, Vermont, where they lived in a peaceful middle-class household.

After graduating from the University of Vermont, Jessica worked at Golden Books Entertainment and thereafter at Tommy Hilfiger, in their public relations departments.

After her first child, Sascha, grew up a little, Jessica Seinfeld woke up to the fact that there was a large number of baby supplies that she had no use for and that could be useful to people who could not afford to buy them.

As a social worker’s daughter her first instinct was to try and get them across to the needy so she organized a donation drive, and ‘Baby Buggy’, a charitable organization that aims to help needy families to access the essentials required for safeguarding their safety and wellbeing, was thus born in 2001.

‘Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food’, Jessica’s first cookbook, was published in October 2007 by ‘HarperCollins’. The book that contained recipes and strategies for making healthy food likable to young children had a foreword written by Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Roxana Mehran while nutritional advice was contributed by Joy Bauer, a repute nutritionist.

‘Deceptively Delicious’ proved to be a raging success, becoming the No.1 on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list where it remained for as long as five months. It also became a top seller on ‘Amazon’ and climbed to the No.2 spot on USA Today’s list of bestsellers. ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ featured the book.

Much of the success that the book achieved was due to the publicity that arose from a lawsuit instituted against Jessica Seinfeld by Missy Chase Lapine, the author of the cookbook, ‘The Sneaky Chef’, published by ‘Running Press’ for copyright and trademark infringement.

‘Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food’ created waves for presenting recipes of traditional dishes incorporating the goodness of vegetables and fruits in a palatable way for children.

Establishment of ‘Baby Buggy’, later renamed to ‘Good Plus Foundation’ to coordinate with charitable partners to provide access to the underprivileged essentials for ensuring their welfare.