Today we’d like to introduce you to GiGi Ashworth.
Hi GiGi, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
GiGi (Genevieve) Ashworth is a popular allergen-friendly, ketovore-centric food personality, also known as, The Salmon Queen. She is also a two-time best-selling cookbook author and has her master’s certificate in Nutrition Communications from Tufts University and her broadcast journalism degree from The University of Colorado, Boulder.
GiGi cannot eat wheat, grains, dairy, gluten, sugar, nuts, eggs or fruit. She also has Ulcerative Colitis, IBS-C, and doesn’t have a large intestine. That being said, she doesn’t see her complications as a death sentence. She turned her limitations into extensive knowledge and now tries her best to help others see life by overcoming illness from a glass-half-full perspective.
People regularly seek advice from GiGi’s platform (including all topics pertaining to salmon, traveling with food intolerances, and/or autoimmune diseases, and/or simple nutrition questions, and/or parenting/relationship advice) and also chow down on her allergen-friendly / clean keto diet-approved recipes that everyone can enjoy. She is described as having an infectious, no-bullshit, hilarious, trustworthy, salmon-loving personality.
GiGi has garnered the attention of many, which led to her authoring her first book, She Does Keto, an informational cookbook on the ketogenic diet and why it’s beneficial for women (also contains 115 recipes). GiGi has been living a ketogenic lifestyle for the last 20 years before it was even a “thing,” and researches this way of eating on the daily.
GiGi’s second book, Seduced By Salmon, was published two years after her first, thanks to her audience’s desire to have all of GiGi’s knowledge about salmon and a multitude of drool-worthy recipes in book format.
As a devoted fitness enthusiast, a rather blunt and light-heartedly vulgar diehard allergen-friendly foodie who has been dubbed the Salmon Queen thanks to the fact that she eats roughly 14 pounds of salmon a week and has been doing so for the last ten-plus years, she has been told that she is proof that you can educate and inform as well as entertain all at the same time!
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
– I eat 14 Pounds of Salmon a Week – I Specialize in Educating (those who care to listen as I don’t force feed information to anyone) on Topics Such as Nutrition & Health (specifically in the ketogenic, paleo, and carnivore realms), Fish & Seafood (specifically salmon), Food Allergies & Intolerances and Autoimmune Disease.
– I am known as The Salmon Queen because of my insane obsession with salmon
– I am most proud of how my brain operates. I am far more logically driven than emotionally driven and this mindset sets me apart.
– I truly do not GAF about 95% of the time.
– I am a very good listener and actually CARE about people.
– I treat people the way I would like to be treated.
– I always know how to make light of situations
– I am a glass 1/2 full perspective kind of person
– I know how to laugh at pretty much everything.
– I don’t hold grudges at all and let everything roll off my back
– While I suffer from a lot of digestive issues/autoimmune diseases/food allergies/food intolerances, I don’t let them get in the way of living my life
– I am not shy and own who I am as a person
– I truly don’t have very many regrets in life
– I created a variety of sugar and dairy-free chocolate with a company called The Good Chocolate
– I created a meal for a meal delivery service called E2M Kitchen
– I was on Master Chef Season 13
– I am known for getting up at 3 am every morning
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
I try to encourage anyone who listens to me, to slip healthier options into their eating regimes, but in a subtle way. I’m not one to force-feed people information, because instead of talking down to people, I like to talk TO PEOPLE. I like to create conversation. I like to hear other people’s perspectives. I think my way of subtle education is a turn-on to many people because they feel my genuine nature radiate as I discuss what I’m passionate about in the food and healthy eating space. I offer up insanely realistic, NO BS advice that people appreciate because all too often information is sugar-coated, trying to convince those who are insanely impressionable to buy X Y, or Z, thus wasting money on products that aren’t necessary. So I guess what I’m trying to change when it comes to healthy eating is HOW INFORMATION IS PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC. Let’s create conversations instead of delegating rules.
I am also my own biggest cheerleader. My friends and family certainly swoop in with encouragement and support when they feel it’s warranted, but I’m the only one who can truly help myself. I control what I do daily, and cheering myself on is part of that equation. I feel that people tend to rely on others way too much to feel good about themselves, and in turn, this way of living can lead to feeling dejected because they may not be getting the amount of praise they want or deserve. This is why I don’t rely on others to lift me up, I lift myself up instead and if others decide they’d like to support me, that’s just a bonus)!
On top of all of that, I also… DGAF. If you don’t know what that acronym means, go look it up. IDGAF is my mentality when it comes to at least 95% of my life. I confidently do my thing, and don’t care what other people think. All too often people do things because they’re trying to seek the approval of others but the only person you should try and get approval from is yourself.
Pricing:
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Contact Info:
- Website: https://gigieatscelebrities.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/gigieats
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/gigieatscelebrities
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/genevieve-ashworth
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=ut5tH2ITDRUH5NQ9I9gdQg
