Plus Size celebrity Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is a voluptuous English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson a former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and Vanessa Salmon, whose family owned the famous Cake empire J Lyons & Co.

After graduating from Oxford Nigella worked as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, Lawson brought out her first cookery book, How To Eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a bestseller. She went on to write her second book in 2000, How to be a Domestic Goddess winning her the British Book Award.

Nigella's career underwent a dramtaic change in 2000 when she began to host her own cookery series on Channel 4, Nigella Bites, which was accompanied with another bestselling cookery book.

Nigella's sexy curvy figure and irreverent humour proved a great success, winning Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. However her 2005 ITV daytime chat show did not have the same success and was panned by the critics and cancelled after attracting low ratings.

In the United States in 2006, she hosted the Food Network's Nigella Feasts followed by a three-part BBC2 series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen in the UK. This led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC2  in 2007.

Renowned for her flirtatious manner of presenting, and sexy plus size, figure Nigella Lawson has been called the "Queen of food porn". She is neither a trained chef nor cook, and has assumed a very  relaxed approach to her cooking which continues to confound the food experts.

Lawson has also demonstrated her growing influence as a food commentator, after some products used on her shows saw their sales figures increase significantly.

Her fun loving style and sexy voluptuous figure continue to please her growing band of fans.