Sissy Biggers

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Sissy Biggers
Born
Martha Lyons Cargill

(1957-07-03) July 3, 1957 (age 64)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Education Barnard College
Occupation Television actress
Spouse(s)R.K. Biggers, Jr.
Children2
Website http://www.sissybiggers.com/

Martha "Sissy" Cargill Biggers (born Martha Lyons Cargill on July 3, 1957) is an American television personality, lifestyle expert, wife and mother of two. She has hosted the Food Network's Ready.. Set... Cook! and Lifetime's Biggers & Summers and Live from Queens talk shows. In 2001 Biggers also served as floor reporter on the short-lived reality television series Iron Chef USA. She has been a regular lifestyles contributor for The Today Show .

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Personal life

Biggers graduated from Barnard College. [1] She is married to Reeve Kelsey Biggers Jr., a grandson of John David Biggers, former chief executive officer of the Libbey-Owens-Ford company who conducted the first unemployment census in 1938 at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "R. K. BIGGERS JR. AND SISSY CARGILL EXCHANGE VOWS (Published 1985)". The New York Times. 1985-06-09. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-12-23.