Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

In this self-deprecating anecdote, Romijn contrasts her own lack of domestic confidence with her partner John’s competence, using humor to puncture celebrity “perfect life” expectations. The exaggerated phrasing (“literally, I never cook”) and the image of two “officially romantic meals” gone wrong frame cooking as a performance she attempted for courtship, only to abandon it once the mismatch became clear. The quote also gestures toward a more modern, negotiated view of household roles: rather than insisting on traditional gendered expectations, she presents a relationship where the better cook takes the lead and the other partner opts out—amicably, even playfully.