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8 Things You Never Knew About Sandra Lee
Published on: July 28, 2009 – 10:01 pm by Jillian Madison 
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1. Sandra Lee lets random gay men feel her up.
It’s true. Just ask Jeffrey Fegenheimer. He met Sandra Lee at a party, complimented her breasts, asked if he could touch them, and she said “sure!” They’ve been best buds ever since.
2. Sandra Lee’s younger brother is gay.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” John Paul Christiansen (”Johnny”) moved to Los Angeles to live with big sis Sandra Lee when he was 18. He told her he was gay, and she replied, “Of course you are! Everybody knows that!”
3. Sandra Lee credits her gay brother for her “thoughtful sensitivity” and her “openness and accepting quality.”
Luckily for Johnny, she DOESN’T credit him for her Kwanzaa cake. Seriously though, we’re not sure exactly which “accepting quality” she’s referring to, other than her willingness to accept a cocktail at 8 AM.
4. Sandra Lee’s mentor is Florence Henderson.
Why am I not surprised that Sandra Lee idolizes a TV mother who dumped off child rearing duties and all cooking responsibilities on an overworked maid?
5. In the early 90s, Sandra Lee created a product called “Kurtain Kraft.”
It’s basically a gigantic wire rack with bits of fabric stuck to it in order to create the appearance of decorative drapery. She paid $50,000 to film the infomercial, and to hire mentor Florence Henderson as the product spokesperson. The good news? Kurtain Kraft is now available for $2.84 on Amazon!
6. Sandra Lee hates people who criticize her and her shows.
According to Sandra, by making fun of her, “you are taking a shot at every woman in America who is just trying to get it done.” Thanks, but don’t speak for me, Sandy. I’m a woman getting it done, without pre-chopped onions or Cool Whip’s 1-800 number on my speed dial.
7. The first episode of Semi-Homemade was about candy.
Seriously! Sandra Lee wrapped marshmallows in fondant, and called the creation “thoughtful and healthful.” Thoughtful and healthful? For who? Willy Wonka?
8. Sandra Lee is a Semi-Homemade mother.
Sandra’s new boyfriend, Andrew Cuomo, has 3 daughters. In last month’s Redbook interview, Sandra said, “I have three kids that are my sweetie daughters — and we don’t say “stepmom,” we say “weekend daughter.” WEEKEND DAUGHTER? That’s terrible. “Sorry, it’s Wednesday! You’re not my daughter today! Come back on Saturday!”
She calls them “weekend daughters” – but what do they call her? Steplush?
(A few quotes sourced from Out Magazine; thanks for the tip, Syd!)
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Good lord she’s a knob!
She makes my skin crawl.
We bought the Krappy Kurtain when it first came out. It seemed like a good idea back then, but in retrospect, those have got to be the tackiest, ugliest decorations in the world.
“weekend daughter”?
Did Florence Henderson call Bobby,Greg, and Peter “kids not spawned from my loins”???
If she wasn’t drunk when she came up with that phrase, she should Say she was in all further interviews.
that out magazine article was the best thing i have ever read about aunt sandy. she’s quirky, lazy, weird… and prob doesn’t belong anywhere near the other chefs/cooks on the food network but after reading that article… it made me realize how normal she is. i’d love to personally go to a bar or party with aunt sandy. she looks really fun.
give aunt sandy a break… but not too much of a big one considering there wouldn’t be much left to make fun of if u stopped lol
I really love this site and its had me howling with laughter many times in the past but sometimes it’s just more mean than funny. This is one of those times.
Mean? What exactly was “mean” about this article? I actually re-read it a 2nd time to see what could have been misconstrued as mean and found nothing. Get a grip and lighten up, Dan.
I take great offense to the term weekend daughter! I have a stepmother, and if she ever referred to my sister or me as her weekend daughters, we would be heartbroken and mortified.
LMAO @Dan…….. mean?! Are you serious. Take your Sandra Lee fanclub startin’ ass to semihomemade.com and preach there!
Not mean but hilarious. “Sandra Lee idolizes a TV mother who dumped off child rearing duties and all cooking responsibilities on an overworked maid?”
Excuse me I’m off to purchase a Kurtain Kraft on Amazon
Good thing she didn’t call it the Kurtain Kraft Kreator, because that would have made a really really bad acronym.
(ps, I only knew 2 of the items on this list. I didn’t know her brother was gay, not like it matters, but as a gay man myself it’s just interesting.)
I have to agree with all about the whole weekend daughter thing. It is a little bit odd especially considering she is not even married to the man.
She is a lush. So when things are true, they’re not mean. They’re honest!
@Dan
The only thing mean about the article was her derogatory term of cuomo’s daughters.
@Alexis.
Maybe Dan believes in aunt sandy’s rule # 6: anyone that says anything even remotely mean about hic. Aunt sandy “hates america”.
I swear. She sounds like she is channeling ann coulter.
Dan, if we’re not mean to Sandra Lee, the terrorists win.
Seriously though, I don’t think this article was “mean.” Snarky and sarcastic, yes. But MEAN? Not really. What exactly was so mean? Joking about Cool Whip or her love of cocktails? Or the fact that her Kurtain Kraft is now worth nil on Amazon? I’m just not seeing it.
STEPLUSH — coming soon to a theater near you.
I’m having a hard time grasping just WTF kurtain kraft is.
Marshmallows wrapped in fondant? Jesus. I’m a dentist. Don’t traumatize me like that.
(my two cents: not mean!)
The Willy Wonka comment made me lol literally.
I find it interesting that Sandra Lee believes that an attack on her is an attack on all womanhood. How insulting to all of us that work hard and manage to make do without wasting zillions of dollars on her stupid tablescapes (”I don’t even bother to finish the edges, ladies!”), or her promoting a diet consisting of 70% alcohol-, preservative-, sodium- and sugar-laden packaged products. Or the fact that her choices in men have all been, well, helpful, shall we say, in promoting her career. SHE is the embarrassment!
Yes, she is just a woman trying “to get it done.” In time for an extra cocktail, maybe.
I agree Tatiana. My mother was a woman getting it done. She had 2 kids that both had their after school activities, a full time job and for 3 years a husband that was going through cancer treatments. Never once did she cook something that was crappy like SAAndra. She would put stuff in her crock pot, but it was real food, not some packaged shit that she poured in there so she could spend more time drinking. SAAndra gives a bad name to women and for those women who are getting it done, she is offensive.
Well said, Tatiana. I was going to comment how when someone makes fun of her, my womanhood sings.
Geez. She’s one step away from “ged ‘er dun”. I bet her trailer is parked right next to Larry’s. I wonder if her brother will make a cameo on Ina’s lineup of gay dudes….
The OUT.com article kind of made me want to like her. But, not so much that I can’t still laugh at her.
“…her willingness to accept a cocktail at 8 AM.” – LOL
That OUT article is one patronizing, condescending piece of s**t. I love how she calls us “her gays”. B***h please, you have to earn the title of fag hag – you haven’t done that, AFAIC. Not with seasoning packets and booze.
I’m really surprised she’s becoming a “Gay Icon” it doesn’t seem right. What is the world coming too? Since when is her Semi-Homemade cooking something to fawn over? I’ve only seen a few russpies that actually look appetizing. She served sliced lox as an entree!
Has Johnny ever been on the show? We know just about everyone else in the family has been on at one time or another.
it seems that only the VHS of kurtain kraft is on Amazon.
And…has Sandy had her “daughters” on the show?
Having step children implies a marriage to their father. To my knowledge that hasn’t taken place. (Like calling Cool Whip whipped cream, eh?) Having children around to fawn over is one thing, but having their father around to guarantee a monthly spot on Good Morning America (his brother’s show) is something entirely different.
And for the record, I think the GMA viewers are getting the short end of the shaft. We don’t have the State’s Attorney General looking out for us.
If you haven’t noticed lately, life in the USA is kind shitty and Sandra Lee personifies many of the reasons why.
Food Network and Lee should be ashamed they promote such a slothful and lazy attitude towards the average family.
Shortcuts and general apathy and everything this woman does is pathetic. If you can’t chop an onion, then you might be amongst the most useless people around and you deserve total misery. People that can’t , won’t, don’t learn even the basics of cooking are substandard people. Losers.
I will never understand how Sandra Lee got her own cooking show. We have a serious problem in America with eating too many processed foods, with little actual nutrition value and tons of added sugar, sodium, and artifical preservatives, colors etc. Humans were not meant to eat this way.
FN needs to promote cooking with natural whole foods. America’s obesity rate is rising, and so are our healthcare costs as a result. No one should be eating things like cool whip and packaged icing. I don’t care how time pressed a person is, you can show them how to cook a real meal. A show which focuses on things you can cook or prepare in bulk over a weekend that freeze well would be great! Not Aunt Sandy’s method of doctoring up unhealthy and expensive processed food and downing it with sugary cocktails!
So yeah, call it mean, but this attitude towards food has to stop.
“I will never understand how Sandra Lee got her own cooking show. ”
Her millionaire ex-husband bankrolled the show. So FN would be out of picket very little and thought they could use her “sex” (gawk) appeal and ran with her, her shows, and her fucking inane insult to all that is food, “semi-homemade”.
“A show which focuses on things you can cook or prepare in bulk over a weekend that freeze well would be great!”
Robin Miller does that… but her show is god awful boring. But if you want to see someone make healthier food (I’m not talking Ellie Krieger healthy) and do it in a short amount of time, watch her show.
@Daria-
Seriously, it makes me mad. Did we all see that recent story of the woman who was arrested for allowing/enabling her 11 year old son to weigh 500+ pounds? Probably a Sandra fan grrr.
You can bet Sandy herself has private chefs who feed her tasty and healthful meals (probably peel her a grape if she wishes), so as to maintain HER OWN trim body !
I challenge her to eat just ONE whole week of nothing but her own recipes !!!!
@Di – and let’s add insult to injury. She has to eat her crap at one of her dollar store tablescapes. Then watch the barfing begin.
Nice. I love that she doesn’t like when people say bad things about her show. Isn’t part of being in the spotlight being judged?
:D!
Sandra Lee is the most entertaining to watch on the FN, and alot of her russipes taste good!
Anne Burrell is also entertaining :D
I’m I reading into things too much or is this woman a complete a moron (drunken or sober)?
I agree that Jillian’s article itself wasn’t mean, (snarky, yes, which we expect and enjoy) but some of these posts sure have been. I don’t watch Semi-Homemade because I try to feed my family out of a can/box as seldom as possible, but I don’t find Aunt Sandy particularly offensive (though the “expresso” thing and some of the other, um, creative pronunciations would seriously bug me if I did watch regularly). A while back, I did watch the Chefography on her life and came out of it feeling like she was someone who really got handed a plate of steamy turds most of her life and instead of turning into a bitter wasteoid came out on the other side with money in the bank and a variety of drinks to choose from on her tablescape.
Oh lord. My mom actually likes Sandra Lee. Not sure why.
I,however, can’t stand her. She needs to take her nasty-ass “russipies” or however the hell she says it and just go away.
Kwanzaa Cake FTW.
In my opinion, I thought it was really rude of her to say to her brother “of course you are! everybody knows that!” after he came out.
I think “accepting quality” means she can accept anything regardless of the quality.
Also, #8 is sad but funny.
Cristine: “In my opinion, I thought it was really rude of her to say to her brother “of course you are! everybody knows that!” after he came out.”
Cristine, I think it’s obvious that she was trying to assure him she had no problem with his being gay. It was kind of her, not rude.
I just dont see how anyone could sit down at one of her tablescapes, you cant see the other diners, and with all the crap on the table, where does that semi-homemade food go? You sure as hell cant eat at the table. Yeah, I am a single mother, and I have the time to create that, let alone a special cocktail for every meal….sorry Princess Sandra, you live in America…WE’RE BROKE!!!!
AHHH! Her “weekend daughters”‘ grandfather is spinning in his grave at the thought of that trash raising his Kennedy offsprings!
Wow. I think you all are taking this WAY too seriously! Maybe you should consider trying one of “Aunt Sandy’s” cocktails and CHILL THE F OUT! During your little time out maybe it would occur to you that no one expects the average person to have cocktails and perfect tablescapes at Every meal. However, she gives ideas for the once in a while nice occasion a person wants to put on. And considering how not everyone will host the SAME occasion, she gives nice variety.
Stacy, you are the voice of reason within this verbal word vomit bucket.