# Julia Child

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 23, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674 "2003-06-23T02:28:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/1 "2003-06-23T02:28:51Z")

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Does Julia Child have children?

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/2 "2003-06-23T02:40:04Z")

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The IMDb entry mentions no children, and usually they are pretty careful about getting details like that correct for well-known people:

[Julia Child](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Child,+Julia+(I))  
[Fixed link. – MEB]

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/3 "2003-06-23T02:42:03Z")

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Somebody want to try fixing that link? I don’t know how to fix it.

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/4 "2003-06-23T02:46:54Z")

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This link should work: [Julia Child](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Child,+Julia+(I))

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**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/5 "2003-06-23T04:14:44Z")

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No. See [biography here](http://63.147.65.175/books/book52.htm): “she and Paul, who never had children”.

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**Author:** ![jonpluc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jonpluc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonpluc)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/6 "2003-06-23T04:32:51Z")

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\<Hijack \>but that woman is looking SCAREY now. She no longer actually does the cooking on the show nor does she actually move much at all in fact. She really looks like someone stuffed her with tortellinni in a garlic white sauce and proped her corpse up in the corner to slowly decompose over the nice meal of whatever the chef of the day is actually making.

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**Author:** ![jonpluc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jonpluc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonpluc)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child/183674/7 "2003-06-23T10:25:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Zenster \*  
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> This world would be a much more bland and unappealing place to live in without Julia and I doff my toque in her honor. Read her biography, **jonpluc** , and then see what you have to say here. \*\*

That may all be well and good, but her usefulness is over now.Others have picked up the gauntlet, there is now no shortage of people cooking on TV and the woman is decidedly uncomfortable to look at…this IS TV after all. At what point do you decide to take a decade off? Its already at a point where it is sad to watch her. She cant even hold a bowl anymore let alone make new cutting edge meals.