Rachael Ray has laid out the diet and supplement routine she follows as she navigates menopause, speaking up after fans speculated about her health and whereabouts.
The 58-year-old celebrity chef said she eats “as healthfully as possible” and sticks to a “colorful” diet heavy on vegetables and fruit. “We grow everything,” she said, noting she harvests fresh produce from four garden beds at her property.
Ray revealed that, despite her age, she has been largely spared the symptoms that send many women to their doctors. “I have no menopausal signs of any kind,” she told the outlet. “My sister’s the same way. She’s 67. She never had them either. I’ve always had an easy time, just in life, when it comes to that kind of stuff.”
Still, she follows medical guidance when needed. “I take my doctor’s advice on hormone replacement or whatever my doctors advise me,” said Ray, who contributed recipes to Dr. Ian Smith’s new book, “The Menopause Kitchen.”
The former “Rachael Ray Show” host also disclosed that her husband, John Cusimano, outpaces her on the supplement front. “My husband is a nut for supplements. He goes into the bathroom, he’s in there like 40 minutes… But it works for him. Whatever makes you happy,” she said.
Ray’s comments come after years of fan concern that first ignited when she slurred her speech in a September 2024 Instagram video, then again in May 2025. She later explained that she had suffered a “couple of bad falls” that year.
On the debut episode of her podcast “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Ray spoke with guest Jenny Mollen about how she stays active through domestic work. “I am a homemaker. I love chores. I love being in the kitchen. I always work with my brain every day. I’m always writing something,” she said.
“But I really like chores. I like what people consider physical work. I like making dinners, planning dinners, making lists,” she continued. “I even love helping carry in the wood.”
The falls, however, forced one adjustment: she has stopped carrying wood for now.
By October 2025, speculation had escalated to claims that Ray had “disappeared” from public life. She rejected that framing outright in an interview.
“I don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said when asked about theories surrounding her whereabouts. “I work my ass off all the time. And I never left,” she continued. “I just switched over to A+E and new partners, that’s all. But I’ve been working constantly.”
Ray divides her time between a home in Tuscany, Italy, and New York.
