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I'm very aware of what things cost and my kids, I think I've given that to my children because the first thing they ask all the time is, 'Is that expensive? Is that too expensive?' and so I feel like not having financial stress for me is actually stressful (laughs.) I can't be a different person than who I grew up. I guess I feel like my DNA is that I - or as Jerry says - I feel people's pain when they're not in any. I stress about other people when they're not stressed and so I guess that just drives me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMrs. Seinfeld is also an author. She recently released her third cook book called \"The Can't Cook Book.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I live with someone who has no knowledge of this so let's just start and assume that no one knows anything and I think that's what 'The Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls' did for me, which was as a little girl I knew nothing and it taught me very quickly how to get comfortable and then my life, for some reason, you know my mom and my grandmother and my whole life dictated the fact that I would then cook for the rest of my life or up until this point for sure,\" she explains.\u003cbr/\u003eSeinfeld says it's important for her to have her own identity and work, even if she doesn't necessarily have to, because that's how she was raised.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I always want to be a working parent because I only had working parents and so I would never know how to be like a stay at home - not that there's anything wrong with it - but just for me, I would never know how to do that because my mom was never home and I fended for myself and I took care of myself so I have, from a very early age, a lot of self-reliance and so I want my kids to have that, especially in New York City where you can't just like let your kids go off on their own,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I try to, I guess, mimic my own childhood, which was we had a lot of struggles and I felt like never really financially secure and so that helped me be really, really industrious and, again, like self-reliant.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 10 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1.SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Seinfeld/Author - on how she started cooking as a child:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yeah, I've been cooking since I was really young. My mom is a - she actually just retired last week at age 71 - but my mom commuted home from her job and she would call me before she left work and kind of tell me, 'Here's how you do this and this is how you can help me get started with dinner' and I would do that with her and then she'd leave, she'd drive home, and then dinner would sort of half-way be ready for her. Then she would leave me sticky notes when she would leave for work in the morning sometimes and then as I got older I could just really help her get the meal going before she got home and then I went to college and I had always eaten at home. For my family, we never went out to dinner; maybe once a year or twice a year. It was such a treat and so I've always been that mindset. I'm kind of the same now with my family. My kids don't ever assume we're going to go out to dinner unless it's a birthday or we're celebrating something. I think that's a nice...I don't know. For me it's like a nice way to raise children in our lifestyle and in New York City. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money to eat good food and spend time with your family.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 10 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e2.SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Seinfeld/Author - on how she wants her kids to be self-reliant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I always want to be a working parent because I only had working parents and so I would never know how to be like a stay at home - not that there's anything wrong with it - but just for me, I would never know how to do that because my mom was never home and I fended for myself and I took care of myself so I have, from a very early age, a lot of self-reliance and so I want my kids to have that, especially in New York City where you can't just like let your kids go off on their own. I try to, I guess, mimic my own childhood, which was we had a lot of struggles and I felt like never really financially secure and so that helped me be really, really industrious and, again, like self-reliant.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 10 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e3.SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Seinfeld/Author - on how she struggles with having no financial stress:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Fortunate to have no financial stress? For me in my life to not have financial stress, I don't even know what to do with that. It's really one of the things that motivated me to start Baby Buggy was I felt so overwhelmed by not having financial stress that I couldn't get it out of my head. I couldn't get it out of my head what women in New York City, at the time where we just were, that people in New York City, how on earth do they have children and afford it? I'm very aware of what things cost and my kids, I think I've given that to my children because the first thing they ask all the time is, 'Is that expensive? Is that too expensive?' and so I feel like not having financial stress for me is actually stressful (laughs.) I can't be a different person than who I grew up. I guess I feel like my DNA is that I - or as Jerry says - I feel people's pain when they're not in any. I stress about other people when they're not stressed and so I guess that just drives me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 10 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e4.SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Seinfeld/Author - on how her kids are concerned about what things cost:\u003cbr/\u003e\"My kids are very concerned about what things cost and my daughter's always like, 'Julian! That is so expensive. You're wasting!' It's so nice. It's really, really nice. Yeah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 10 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e5.SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Seinfeld/Author - on the cookbook that she learned from:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I live with someone who has no knowledge of this so let's just start and assume that no one knows anything and I think that's what 'The Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls' did for me, which was as a little girl I knew nothing and it taught me very quickly how to get comfortable and then my life, for some reason, you know my mom and my grandmother and my whole life dictated the fact that I would then cook for the rest of my life or up until this point for sure.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 22 April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld arriving at the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival party\u003cbr/\u003eAP Images\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 5 June 2013\u003cbr/\u003e7. 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