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MARIE LANMI
Marie Lanmi is an adorable French cook, born in Paris in 1975, the second of 8 children. She is mostly known for her pastries, cakes and fancy aprons. Since 2008, she has had two TV shows: French Cooking for Dummies and Cook For Your Life where starving contestants, lost in Jungle, need to cook a full meal while singing and dancing. This show featured personalities as important as Tom Hanks and Barack Obama.

LIFE AND CAREER 

Early life Marie Lanmi was born in Paris in 1975. Her father was a Sicilian emigrant and her mom was elected Miss America in 1968. Her passion for French food began a day in 1993 when she was really hungry: she spent the whole day navigating from a bakery to another one. That day, she tried over a dozen eclairs, two boxes of macarons and three full baguettes. Feeling sick, she washed them down with a bottle of Beaujolais. A star was born.

Education Marie Lanmi was a “F” student. It took her over ten years to know how to read and write her name. She could not learn her multiplication tables and begged for a Maths exemption. She was granted a calculator for her assignments.

First successes In 1993, shy of nineteen years old, she decided to take cooking and baking lessons. Her waist started to expand so much she was nicknamed Whaley-Marie by her peers. Her new figure seduced her coach and soon-to-be mentor, Mr. Georges, a very talented French Cook whose specialty was a mean Beef Bourguignon. Together, they decided to write a recipe book for useless cooks. It failed miserably. The book did not meet its audience at all. The couple decided to split and later on that year, Marie Lanmi put herself on a drastic diet and launched the Lanmi method to help other losing weight: the diet consisted of not food at all with a mix of hot lemony water and grueling workouts. The success was huge. She then decided to write a new book, “7 days to lose ten kilos, faint and almost die”. The book dominated the charts for 52 weeks and a half.

Awards and Recognition In 1994, she received the Women of Year Award and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Overwhelmed by her success and her newly-found size 0, she took a break for ten years in an Indian Ashram to regroup. A day, during her meditation, she had an epiphany and saw a giant Saucisson coming at her. The massive meat pole slowly whispered: Oye, oye, you have a mission, go back to your kitchen and cook at least a French meal a day. Share your cooking and baking with the world (but start with your neighbours first)”. That very evening, she left the Ashram (and a shameful tab as she sneakily ordered red wine every night).

FILMOGRAPHY In 2009, she did a couple of appearances as a cook in Baking Bad, a HBO serie which was a massive hit. Despite her enjoying the experience, a critic wrote that " It is probably the first time I was made physically sick in front of a serie. I could launch my rotten tomatoes directly at her face, voila!".