Paula Deen is an American restauranteur, author, television personality, and celebrity chef with an estimated net worth of $10 million. Deen is 5’5″ and weighs 183 pounds.Paula Ann Hiers was born on January 19, 1947 in Albany, Georgia. In her 20s after an early divorce to Jimmy Deen and her parents’ death, Deen suffered from panic attacks and agoraphobia. She focused her time on cooking for her family because it was a way she could stay active without leaving her home. Her grandmother had handed her down the art of Southern cooking and Paula mastered it.

As a single mother it was hard for Paula Deen to make ends meet. She started her own catering business making sandwiches and using her sons as delivery boys. In 1991 she opened The Lady restaurant (now The Lady & Sons) in Savannah, Georgia. In 1999 USA Today named The Lady & Sons the “International Meal of the Year”.

Paula began her relationship with the Food Network in 1999. She is best known for her Food Network shows Paula’s Home Cooking, Paula’s Best Dishes, and Paula’s Party. In June 2007 Deen won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host for Paula’s Home Cooking. After Deen’s admission in a deposition to using racial slurs The Food Network announced they would not renew her contract.

Paula Deen has published several cookbooks that feature traditional Southern recipes. In April 2007 Simon & Schuster published Deen’s memoir It Ain’t All About the Cookin’.

Paula Deen’s Net Worth Could Buy:             

1. 7,042.2 J Brand Cropped Leather Pants ($1,420.00 each)
2. 20,202 Lagos Diamond Sea Turtle Pendant ($495.00 each)
3. 86,964.1 ihome Dual Alarm Stereo Clock ($114.99 each)

Paula Deen has enough net worth to give almost every person in Haiti $1.