Paula Deen has Diabetes

OMG I'm so shocked! I did not see this coming.

Paula Deen has diabetes. She is working with Novartis for a multi-million dollar deal to endorse diabetes medication she is taking.

So basically the marketing message here is: eat her food, get diabetes, buy the medication she is taking. Total win for corporate America. Get well soon Paula!

The report:

From The Daily:

Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie, Southern cooking — is about to come clean and confess that she can’t eat her own dishes anymore because she has diabetes.

The Georgia-born chef — a Food Network star who has written five best-selling cookbooks — has been trying to keep her condition a secret, even after the National Enquirer reported in April that she has Type 2 diabetes, which is often associated with fatty foods and obesity.

Sources say Deen, 64, who never addressed the diabetes question, has worked out a multimillion-dollar deal to be the spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company and endorse the drug she is taking.

Novartis, the drug company she is said to be working for, declined to respond to Flash’s questions, as did Deen’s agent and Deen herself.