Giada De Laurentiis, 54, shares sweet video of her lookalike daughter Jade, 16, singing with her band

Giada De Laurentiis shared a group of photos and video clips celebrating her summer memories on Instagram.

‘& that’s a wrap for summer 2024,’ she captioned the post, adding a crying emoji. 

Included in that group was a video of her lookalike daughter Jade Marie De Laurentiis-Thompson, 16, singing with her band, The Hours.

Jade can be seen singing lead vocals nearby a train station, possibly engaging in the tradition of busking. 

The Food Network star – who had sinus surgery earlier this year – shares Jade with her ex-husband, fashion designer Todd Thompson. 

Giada frequently shares snaps with her only child on her social media and she has a lot more time to do that now that she has retired from The Food Network after 21 years as one of the network’s biggest stars.

To put it simply, she was burnt out as she told Rebecca Minkoff on her Superwoman podcast recently.

‘I would switch gears without knowing it every seven years,’ she explained. 

‘So I did Everyday Italian for seven years, then I got pregnant, and I was like, “OK, I can’t do that show anymore. I’ve got to do a reincarnation of the show because I’m now pregnant. I’m a different person,”’ she said of having Jade in 2008.

She joined The Food Network in 2002 and over the years put out the shows, including Everyday Italian, which won her a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lifestyle Host, Giada’s Weekend Getaways, Giada at Home, Giada Entertains and Giada in Italy.

And walking away from all of that terrified her. 

‘It took a while for me to make this decision because I was very fearful of leaving Food Network,’ she said. 

‘Because when you’re a big fish in that pond and then you get out, who knows what’s gonna happen next? But I really started to become interested in the entrepreneurial sort of journey. And I realized I couldn’t do both.’

Included in that group was a video of her lookalike daughter Jade Marie De Laurentiis-Thompson, 16, singing with her band, The Hours

The Food Network star – who had sinus surgery earlier this year – shares Jade with her ex-husband, fashion designer Todd Thompson

Giada frequently shares snaps with her only child on her social media and she has a lot more time to do that now that she has retired from The Food Network after 21 years as one of the network’s biggest stars

De Laurentiis cited her 2015 divorce, her busy work schedule and being a single mom as reasons she was burnt out and ‘felt like the world was crumbling around me.’

‘So about two and a half years ago, I finally was like, “okay, I’m gonna make the jump, and I’m gonna put my energy in Giadzy.”‘

And so far at least, she doesn’t miss it, which surprises her.

‘I know, I should say yes. I think it’s because I got burnt out. I really worked so hard for so long. I got burnt out and I couldn’t see a path that was exciting anymore. I need excitement. And if I’m getting bored, my viewers are getting bored,’ she explained.