Mary Berry says her parents were never proud of her cooking skills.
The former \'Great British Bake Off\' judge has opened up about her parents\' attitudes to her career as a food writer and baker, and while she described it as a "different era" she still felt that they were "disappointed" in her, especially when she was at school.
Asked if her mother and father - housewife Marjorie and surveyor Alleyne - were "proud", she told BBC Good Food: "No, not at all. Although they were pleased I did well at domestic science, and that I used to bring nice things home to eat.
"But it was a different era - we were almost \'seen and not heard\'. My parents weren\'t involved with us, and I sensed their disappointment."
Mary, now 84, moved to London when she was 22 years old to take on a job as a cook for the Dutch Dairy Bureau, and while he dad was "shocked" - even travelling from Bath to "check out" the man who offered her the role - nothing was going to sway her from taking up the opportunity.
Noting she wasn\'t allowed to leave home until she turned 21, she added: "No [it didn\'t stop me] - I knew I wanted to go to London, I didn\'t mind how hard I worked, and even though I didn\'t have the backing of my parents, it was great."
