Armchair Expert that she no longer suffers from it. She used to be a vegan, which she gave up because she found it difficult to eat enough calories on a vegan diet due to her sensitivities to wheat and soy. A year prior to giving up her vegan diet, she was featured on episode eight of season one of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, in which the chefs participating in the competition were challenged to cater a vegan lunch party for her family and friends using no soy or gluten. After speaking with many food experts and farmers in her role as the host of the ATTN: series, Your Food's Roots, she has since gone back to eating a vegetarian diet, citing the difficulty in knowing whether the animals used for meat have been sustainably and humanely raised. In December 2008, Deschanel became engaged to musician Ben Gibbard, lead vocalist for Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. They married on September 19, 2009, near Seattle, Washington. On November 1, 2011, they announced their separation. Deschanel filed for divorce on December 27, 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on December 12, 2012. Deschanel confirmed her engagement to film producer Jacob Pechenik in January 2015, and they married in June 2015. They have two children: Elsie Otter, born in July 2015, and Charlie Wolf, born in May 2017. Deschanel met Property Brothers star Jonathan Scott while filming an episode of Carpool Karaoke: The Series in August 2019. In September 2019 Deschanel and Pechenik announced their separation, and afterward Deschanel started dating Scott. Deschanel and Pechenik remained separated, and divorce was finalized on June 1, 2020. In a 2022 interview on Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert, Deschanel revealed that she was diagnosed with combined type ADHD as a child. Awards and nominations References External links Zooey Deschanel Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America 1980 births 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American women singers 20th-century American singers 21st-century American actresses 21st-century American keyboardists 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Actresses from Los Angeles American women pop singers American women singer-songwriters American film actresses American people of French descent American television actresses American ukulele players American voice actresses Crossroads School alumni Converts to Judaism Jewish American actresses Living people Northwestern University alumni Singers from Los Angeles She & Him members Jewish women singers Jewish American songwriters California Democrats Singer-songwriters from