Jessica Seinfeld (nee Nina Danielle Sklar, born September 12, 1971 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York) is the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and author of a cookbook for preparing food for children. She graduated on the University of Vermont, and got the job done in public relations for Golden Books Entertainment as favorably as for Tommy Hilfiger. She met her recent husband at a Manhattan gym in 1998, just recently before she married Broadway scion Eric Nederlander, on June 13 of too year.After she reimbursed of her honeymoon, Sklar took up in on Seinfeld, and her husband put forward for divorce in mid-October. Sklar and Seinfeld became involved in the beginning of November 1998, and got married on December 25, 1999. They now experience a daughter, Sascha, and two sons, Julian Kal and Shepherd Kellen.

In 2000, Seinfeld launched Baby Buggy, a charity who allows clothing and gear for the infants and young children of low-income women. The company functions through 60 social services institutions to distribute as good as 100,000 baby offerings a year.

In 2007, Seinfeld published the cookbook Deceptively Delicious, that contains strategies and recipes for construction wonderful food sought after to young children. She was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and the book made it to Number 1 on Amazon.com, Number 2 on the USA Today best-seller list, and Number 1 on the The New York things Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous list. The book, however, stirred controversy when it was declared such a a larger number of as opposed to a dozen of the same recipes in Seinfeld’s book appeared in a different author’s cookbook, The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine, published beforehand which year.The odd combinations overly give the impression in Lapine’s recipes — these kinds of as spinach in brownies, avocado in chocolate pudding, and ass potato in grilled cheese sandwiches — additionally come in Seinfeld’s book.Lapine had twice unsuccessfully shopped her manuscript to Seinfeld’s publisher (HarperCollins) just cycles before it chose to publish Seinfeld’s instead.

In response to the accusations, Seinfeld imparted upon The New York Times: “I don’t look for to recreate someone’s idea. I’ve got adequate going out on in my life.” Her husband, in an arrival on Late Night among David Letterman, identified Lapine a “wacko” and believed his wife was making “accused of a Watergate-style break-in.”

On January 7, 2008, Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals sued Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld for defamation, plagiarism, or copyright and trademark infringement in the Manhattan, U.S. District Court. Richard Menaker, the Seinfelds’ counsel, accused Lapine of seeking out publicity on Seinfeld’s book sells.