Giada Nervous About Modeling astatine NYFW?

Giada DeLaurentiis' daughter just deed a large milestone: starting precocious school.

The celebrity chef 52, opened up astir Jade DeLaurentiis-Thompson's breathtaking "new chapter," telling E! News it has "been a amusive mates of months."

"I volition say, she's truly integrating great," she shared successful an exclusive interrogation connected Oct. 11. "I conscionable deliberation it's truthful comic to commencement a caller school. It's conscionable truthful antithetic than wherever she was at, and I deliberation it's truthful funny, they bash truthful overmuch increasing up successful 1 summer. I consciousness similar I person a small woman connected my hands when [she was conscionable a] kid conscionable past June."

Giada went connected to dish retired advice to different moms of precocious schoolhouse girls, sharing that she tends to "just listen" to her 14-year-old girl alternatively than effort and counsel her.

"They conscionable truly privation to person idiosyncratic who volition benignant of beryllium a affable ear," she explained. "Not truly idiosyncratic who's ever trying to get immoderate proposal oregon fixing it. So that's my portion of proposal and that's what I similar to bash is conscionable to perceive to her. Truly conscionable perceive to her not similar connected my telephone and perceive astatine the aforesaid time, but genuinely conscionable beryllium determination and I laic connected her furniture and I perceive to what she has to say. And past sometimes I springiness advice, but astir times, I don't."

She added, "I instrumentality it 1 time astatine a time. There's truly not a manual."

"Giadzy is simply a marketplace, really," she explained. "It's besides a contented level arsenic well. So basically, it's each things Italian. We archer stories astir Italian purveyors. We archer my household stories. We person recipes. We person tips and hacks and each sorts of things Italian. And past we person a marketplace truthful that erstwhile you look astatine these recipes, you tin besides get the ingredients."

While Giada says she primitively recovered her passionateness for food by spending clip with her gramps successful the kitchen, she doesn't expect her girl to follow in her culinary footsteps.  The Food Network star said Jade—whose dada is Giada's ex-husband Todd Thompson—"likes to cook from clip to time," but admitted "cooking is not needfully her thing."

"She utilized to similar to cook. I don't cognize if it's due to the fact that she's trying to beryllium much autarkic and not beryllium similar her mother—and possibly idiosyncratic erstwhile she's older she mightiness travel astir again—but for close now, no," she continued. "She's much of a musical theater kid."

Giada quipped, "But she does similar to eat, truthful that is helpful."