Katie Lee Biegel Shares How She Balances a Busy Work Schedule with Family Time (Exclusive)
Katie Lee Biegel Shares How She Balances a Busy Work Schedule with Family Time (Exclusive)
Lexi Lane, Kimberlee SpeakmanSun, May 31, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC
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Katie Lee Biegel and her daughter
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Katie Lee Biegel prioritizes her family, especially her daughter, Iris, while balancing her career as a chef and TV host
She supports food banks and recently involved her daughter in volunteering at a food packing facility in the Bronx, New York
Biegel is working on new projects, including a YouTube series It's Not Complicated and a podcast All on the Table
Katie Lee Biegel's family is her top "priority" when it comes to balancing everything in life.
While at the annual Gotham Ball in New York City, Biegel, 44, spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about how she juggles raising her daughter and working as a chef and TV host.
"Well, I don't know how much balance I have, but I make my priority my daughter and my family, so that's always going to be number one for us, and then I have to fit everything else in around that," she said. "That's the way I like it. I love being home. I'm a homebody and so I love being home with my kid."
Ryan Biegel and Katie Lee Biegel at the Gotham Ball 2026
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Biegel married her husband, Ryan, in 2018. They welcomed their daughter, Iris, in September 2020. "Welcome, baby Iris Marion Biegel 💕 9.2.20 💕Our hearts are so full," she wrote on Instagram at the time.
During Biegel's interview with PEOPLE, she expressed how "thrilled" she was to be at the Gotham Ball, which benefited the Food Bank for New York City, and shared just how much giving back to food banks is a "really important" cause.
"My job is all about the excess of food, and there are so many people right here in our city who are food insecure," she explained. "So I feel like that I have a duty to give back in this way."
Biegel added, "A couple of weeks ago, I took my daughter for the first time to the Bronx to the food packing facility and we did a day together packing boxes and she had the best time. I encourage people to start young with your kids."
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Katie Lee Biegel
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The Food Network star appeared on The Kitchen for 12 years before it ended in 2025. She was joined by Sunny Anderson, Geoffrey Zakarian, Jeff Mauro and frequent guest Alex Guarnaschelli.
"Well, The Kitchen was an incredible experience," she told PEOPLE. "I miss my co-host. I was texting with Geoffrey Zakarian yesterday and we were saying, 'I miss [you],' you know, 'We miss each other. We miss going in each other's dressing rooms and hanging out and just kind of, you know, BSing with each other.' "
"It was a great, great time and I'm so grateful for it, and grateful for the experience we had," she added.
As for what's next, Biegel also teased that she had some new projects coming up, including working on her YouTube digital series and a podcast.
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"I've been working on my new digital series that's called It's Not Complicated. It's on YouTube," she shared. "My husband who's here is actually helping me with it. He's a producer so he's producing the show, he's filming it and we're having a great time and I also have a podcast called All on the Table."
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