Anthony bourdain who is he married to

Not just another tribute to Anthony Bourdain , Roadrunner is a beautiful film that sheds light on the chef and TV personality's final, erratic year. The new documentary directed by Morgan Neville — centered on the food world's favorite bad boy, who died by suicide in — is in theaters Friday. It's the first time since Bourdain's death that we hear from his estranged wife, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, one of many people in the late chef's inner circle who sat for an interview.

Busia, a jiu-jitsu pro, discusses their romantic love story after first being introduced by chef Eric Ripert, and their subsequent separation in The two never formally divorced but dated other people and continued to co-parent their daughter, Ariane , now The Parts Unknown host had long said he wasn't sure he'd be a great dad, but when he finally settled down, Busia revealed he was over the moon.

But traveling for days out of the year can no doubt take a toll on a relationship, a family. Anthony was also previously married to Nancy Putkowski. Nancy and Anthony were married in before they were legally separated in They shared no children. Anthony Bourdain admitted in a recent interview with People that he wasn't interested in getting married a third time.

Nor was Asia Argento. But the celebrity couple wanted to make it work in their own way. Here's the quote from the late chef and travel documentarian. Look, I like being around her as much as possible. She's like me, in a lot of ways. We've both been married twice. So that's not something that's ever, ever going to happen.

In a separate interview with People in , Anthony Bourdain remained confessional about the broken state of his relationship with Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, admitting that they have not been close with each other for quite some time, but noting there was no drama between them. They drifted apart after Bourdain became popular in the food industry.

The chef once commented to the New Yorker , "I felt like the whole world was opening up to me. I'd seen things. I'd smelled things. I desperately wanted more. And she saw the whole thing as a cancer. Believe it or not: Ripert was convinced that the two would be compatible. His predictions turned out to be true and she ended up dating Bourdain.

Interestingly, they had an age gap of 22 years between them but got along really well from the beginning of their courtship.

At the time, Busia-Bourdain was employed as a general manager at a New York-based eatery called Geisha. She told the New York Times that she was raised in Italy and had a comfortable life there. She said, "I had a very nice Italian life.

I grew up in a small town in Lombardy. I was studying to be a dentist. Her plans changed abruptly, however, when she fell for an Irish musician. She ended shifting base to the U. However, she wasn't afraid. Per Married to a Chef , the one thing that really appealed to Ottavia Busia-Bourdain about Anthony Bourdain was the fact that he understood the food industry so well. She said, "Working in the restaurant business was definitely what brought us together.