Lawson was one of four children. Her sister Thomasina died of breast cancer at age 31. At the time, Lawson was nine months pregnant with her first child.
But her mother and sister weren’t the only ones whom she lost to cancer. The celebrity chef also lost her first husband, journalist John Diamond to throat cancer in March 2001 when he was 47.
The two first met in 1986 while working on The Sunday Times.
They tied the knot in Venice in 1992 and welcomed their first child, daughter Cosima Thomasina Diamond in December 1993.
She and Diamond also gave birth to son Bruno Paul Diamond in June 1996.
