Abby Jimenez knows the recipe for success.
The secret ingredient? Betting on herself. After all, years before becoming the author of several bestselling rom-coms—her latest, Say You’ll Remember Me, is out April 1—she built a baking business right out of her home.
After being laid off from ger retail job, “It was very scary opening up our first bakery,” Abby admitted to E! News in an exclusive interview. “I started Nadia Cakes out of my house in 2007. I had no culinary background. I had taken two and a half classes to learn how to decorate cakes, and I had my own cake recipes.”
Not to mention, at the time, she and husband Carlos Jimenez were balancing life with three little ones: 2-year-old Naomi, 12-month-old Nadia and newborn Maya, who, as she emphasized were “all in diapers.” (Their daughters are now all in their late teens and early twenties.)
But turning her passion for baking into her profession wasn’t without its risks, and by the time Abby and Carlos were ready to expand Nadia Cakes into a full-fledged bakery, they were in serious debt.