Paula Deen has high blood pressure, smokes Virginia Slims

Paula Deen who has come out as a diabetic and spokeswoman for diabetic medication has another “secret”: she has high blood pressure! She also smokes Virginia Slims.

Apparently — this is all public knowledge since 2007? Wh-what? Is she waiting for a marketing deal to make a confirmation?

The report:

From Daily:

Paula Deen stops ‘Dr. Oz’ taping over issue of high blood pressure

A source said Oz asked the corpulent creator of fried butter balls and bacon cheeseburger meatloaf, “You have another secret, don’t you? You have high blood pressure.”

A panic-stricken publicist interrupted the interview and pointed out that Deen hadn’t signed a consent form yet, and told Oz, “You can’t air that.”

“It took an hour to straighten out, and then they redid the interview,” a source spilled to Flash.

From OC Register (in 2007):

“I’d rather the house got beat up than me,” she says of the new arrangement, lighting a Virginia Slims during a break.

She stops short. “Y’all don’t have to tell people that I smoke, do you?”

She’s reminded that she tells on herself in her new memoir, “Paula Deen: It Ain’t All About the Cookin’” (Simon & Schuster, $25).

“Well, all right,” she says, flicking ashes into the sink. “I’ve got two vices: cigarettes and taters.”

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Both Deen’s parents died when she was barely out of high school, and she believed for years that she wouldn’t live past 40. But except for taking blood pressure medication, she says, she’s doing just fine – despite the fact that she doesn’t really exercise or watch what she eats.

Via Gothamist