Paula Deen is a Disney villain

• Paula Deen’s never just been playing around in the kitchen.

Let us start with the formalities. I am not glad that celebrity chef Paula Deen has diabetes. I take no joy in her condition. I’m still not certain why Maxim named her the hottest female chef on television.

All that said, and for those who have failed to turn on their Internet in the past day, Deen went on The Today Show to reveal that she has Type 2 diabetes, a diagnosis she received three years ago. This revelation came alongside the announcement that she will now be a spokeswoman for drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s “Diabetes in a New Light” program.

In the past 24 hours, I have learned two things about the woman who now has a line of home furnishings at Nebraska Furniture Mart: She is more driven and calculating than I could possibly have known, and she has a serious set of Southern door knockers on her.