The Health Diaries

Why Baking Star Bernadette Gee Is Revamping Her Routine

The founder of Magnolia Kitchen gets honest about her struggle to focus on sleep and diet while running her successful business

There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.

New Zealand-based Bernadette Gee, the founder of Magnolia Kitchen, wants you to know that she didn’t plan to build a popular bakery business focused on artistic cakes. Instead, it grew out of the Snapchat following she amassed while staying home to care for her third child about five years ago. Along with posting about her daily life and struggles, Gee shared images and stories about the spectacular cakes she was baking out of her home kitchen.

Several years later, Gee stopped baking at home and started to build an empire. Now she has a bestselling book (Magnolia Kitchen: Inspired Baking With Personality, out this year), more than 200,000 Instagram followers, and a thriving restaurant in Silverdale, New Zealand, called Magnolia Kitchen Sweet Cafe.

This week, Bernadette tells Elemental about how she’s changed up her daily routine to make it healthier.