Lisa Valastro Biography, Age, Husband and Family
Matthew Wilson
Updated on January 02, 2026
Lisa Valastro Biography
Lisa Valastro is a reality star and wife of the American celebrity chef Buddy Valastro. She regularly appears on the hit television show, Cake Boss.
Along with 3 of Buddy’s sisters – Maddalena Castano, Grace Faugno and Mary Sciarrone.
Lisa Valastro Age
Valastro was born on March 9, 1979, in the United States. Lisa’s parents are Gloria Tomacco and Mauro Belgiovine. As of 2019, she is 40 years old. Her birth name is actually Elisabetta Belgiovine.
Lisa Valastro Married|Husband|Children
Valastro first met her husband when she was 19 years old. They met through Buddy’s cousins in an Italian restaurant. They were also Lisa’s friends. Later hung out at a club and they have been together ever since. Buddy was 22 years old at the time, for the record.
In the early stages of dating, Lisa often brought him food to his bakery when he was working late & they would have a date night. The couple was engaged for nine months before marriage. Eventually, they married in 2001 when Lisa was 21 and Buddy was 24. Now a mother of 4, Lisa gave birth to her first and only daughter in 2005, four years after marriage. Her three sons were born in 2006, 2008 and 2011 respectively
Until 2014, Lisa, Buddy, and their four children, Sofia Valastro, ‘Buddy’ Valastro Jr., Marco Valastro and Carlo Salvatore Valastro, resided in East Hanover Township, New Jersey. A busy mum, Lisa’s hobbies and interests mainly revolve around her children and she spends much of her time taxing them to places, doing arts and crafts with them, swimming, and sharing their interests in baseball, softball, gymnastics, and karate. Although her husband is a culinary star, Lisa remains the star in her own kitchen and only allows him to cook once in a while.
Lisa Valastro Career
Lisa is a reality star, often appearing on TLC’s reality series, Cake Boss. She appears alongside her husband, Buddy and several other members of the extended Valastro family.When she was very young, Lisa had worked for LifeBankUSA, a biotechnology company in Hanover, New Jersey.
Lisa’s walk-in closet is actually bigger than some studio apartments in New York, the benefits of having a husband who had an estimated net worth of a few million dollars. An active social media personality, Lisa has hundreds of posts on Instagram with over 500,000 followers. With over 30,000 followers on her Twitter page, she is definitely a much liked woman.Lobster tails are her favorite food.Her husband’s business, Carlo’s bake shop which is the main scene on the Cake Boss show, is actually a family owned business and was owned by his father, although Buddy took over the business at age 17 in 1994 after his father’s death.
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