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== Early life and career ==

== Early life and career ==

Chambers was born on August 18, 1982, in [[San Antonio, Texas]].<ref name=”Reilly 2014″>{{cite magazine |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |date=June 2, 2014 |title=Who Is Elizabeth Chambers? |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/26545-who-is-elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammers-wife-has-literal-figurative-bun-in-the-oven |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Bustle}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=2019 |title=Elizabeth Chambers News |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/elizabeth-chambers/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |magazine=Us Weekly}}</ref><ref name=”Ortega 2023″>{{cite news |last=Ortega |first=Hannah |date=October 31, 2023 |title=TV host, master baker and UT Austin outstanding alumni: Elizabeth Chambers can do it all |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2023/10/31/elizabeth-chambers-truly-texan-bird-bakery-ut-austin-alumni-cupcake-wars-access-hollywood-podcast/71386728007/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |work=Austin American-Statesman}}</ref> She is the oldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother, Maureen Carnathan, was of British descent and raised in [[India]];<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith Ford |first=Lauren |date=October 26, 2012 |title=Birds of a Feather: Couple builds sweet nest in San Antonio |url=https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918094601/https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer/ |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=San Antonio Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith Ford |first=Lauren |date=August 24, 2018 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Hammer on Bird Bakery and the Instagram Life |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/elizabeth-chambers-hammer-bird-bakery/ |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Texas Monthly}}</ref> She helped care for her grandmother after she was diagnosed with [[Parkinson’s disease]].<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″>{{cite magazine |last=Minutaglio |first=Rose |date=February 8, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Is Not Who She Married |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a42768328/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer-interview-2023/ |access-date=November 23, 2025 |magazine=Elle}}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was two, and she and her mom left [[Texas]], first for [[Colorado]] and then [[California]], before returning to Colorado, where she attended high school.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> She said that Texas always felt like a “safe space”.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/>

Chambers was born on August 18, 1982, in [[San Antonio, Texas]].<ref name=”Reilly 2014″>{{cite magazine |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |date=June 2, 2014 |title=Who Is Elizabeth Chambers? |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/26545-who-is-elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammers-wife-has-literal-figurative-bun-in-the-oven |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Bustle}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=2019 |title=Elizabeth Chambers News |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/elizabeth-chambers/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |magazine=Us Weekly}}</ref><ref name=”Ortega 2023″>{{cite news |last=Ortega |first=Hannah |date=October 31, 2023 |title=TV host, master baker and UT Austin outstanding alumni: Elizabeth Chambers can do it all |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2023/10/31/elizabeth-chambers-truly-texan-bird-bakery-ut-austin-alumni-cupcake-wars-access-hollywood-podcast/71386728007/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |work=Austin American-Statesman}}</ref> She is the oldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother, Maureen Carnathan, was of British descent and raised in [[India]];<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith Ford |first=Lauren |date=October 26, 2012 |title=Birds of a Feather: Couple builds sweet nest in San Antonio |url=https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918094601/https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer/ |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=San Antonio Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith Ford |first=Lauren |date=August 24, 2018 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Hammer on Bird Bakery and the Instagram Life |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/elizabeth-chambers-hammer-bird-bakery/ |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Texas Monthly}}</ref> helped care for her grandmother after she was diagnosed with [[Parkinson’s disease]].<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″>{{cite magazine |last=Minutaglio |first=Rose |date=February 8, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Is Not Who She Married |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a42768328/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer-interview-2023/ |access-date=November 23, 2025 |magazine=Elle}}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was two, and she and her mom left [[Texas]], first for [[Colorado]] and then [[California]], before returning to Colorado, where she attended high school.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> She said that Texas always felt like a “safe space”.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/>

Chambers studied [[journalism]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name=”Duboff 2018″>{{cite magazine |last=Duboff |first=Josh |date=February 1, 2018 |title=Elizabeth Chambers, Emerging Lifestyle Guru for the Instagram Generation |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/02/elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-today-show-instagram-armie-hammer |access-date=October 3, 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> Her first job was as a correspondent at [[Al Gore]]’s television network [[Current TV]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Bunch |first=Julia |date=March 29, 2018<!– updated July 17, 2025 –> |title=Inside the Sweet Life of Elizabeth Chambers Hammer, BIRD Bakery Boss and Hollywood’s Red Carpet Fave |url=https://dfwchild.com/2018/03/29/family-friendly-trails-dallas/ |access-date=October 3, 2020 |website=DFW Child}}</ref> Chambers was later a news correspondent for ”[[Entertainment Tonight]]”, ”[[E! News]]”, and ”[[Access Hollywood]]”,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″>{{cite magazine |date=September 26, 2012 |title=From Hollywood with Love |url=https://sawoman.com/2012/09/from-hollywood-with-love/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |magazine=San Antonio Woman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Spellberg |first=Claire |date=February 26, 2018 |title=Who Is Armie Hammer’s Wife? Elizabeth Chambers Is An Entrepreneur |url=https://www.elitedaily.com/p/who-is-armie-hammers-wife-elizabeth-chambers-is-entrepreneur-update-8332869 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |website=Elite Daily}}</ref> and was the chief correspondent for the [[Human Rights Foundation]].<ref name=”Reilly 2014″/> She played the role of Kathryn in the 2007 film ”[[The Game Plan (film)|The Game Plan]]”,<!– http://www.thefilmfile.com/reviews/g/07_gameplan.htm –><ref name=”Gill 2021″>{{cite web |last=Gill |first=Cassie |date=March 18, 2021 |title=Elizabeth Chambers: 5 Things About The Actress, 38, Divorcing Armie Hammer Amid New Rape Allegation |url=https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-elizabeth-chambers-4130356/ |access-date=November 23, 2025 |website=Hollywood Life }}</ref><ref name=”Carter 2022″>{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Simone |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Breaks Silence About ‘Heartbreaking’ Armie Hammer Doc |url=https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-chambers-breaks-silence-about-heartbreaking-armie-hammer-doc-1745069 |access-date=November 23, 2025 |work=Newsweek }}</ref> and also appeared in various television shows, including ”[[Criminal Minds]]”, ”[[Shark (American TV series)|Shark]]”,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″/> ”[[Moonlight (American TV series)|Moonlight]]”,<ref name=”Reilly 2014″/> and ”[[2 Broke Girls]]”.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/> and walked the runway for the [[Victoria’s Secret]] fashion show in 2007.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/> In 2017, Chambers was the “Most Beautiful Foodie” according to ”[[People (magazine)|People]]”.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ewing-Chow |first=Daphne |date=June 30, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Explores The Culinary Scene Of The Cayman Islands While Under Quarantine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2020/06/30/elizabeth-chambers-explores-the-culinary-scene-of-the-cayman-islands-while-under-quarantine/ |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Forbes}}</ref>

Chambers studied [[journalism]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name=”Duboff 2018″>{{cite magazine |last=Duboff |first=Josh |date=February 1, 2018 |title=Elizabeth Chambers, Emerging Lifestyle Guru for the Instagram Generation |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/02/elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-today-show-instagram-armie-hammer |access-date=October 3, 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> Her first job was as a correspondent at [[Al Gore]]’s television network [[Current TV]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Bunch |first=Julia |date=March 29, 2018<!– updated July 17, 2025 –> |title=Inside the Sweet Life of Elizabeth Chambers Hammer, BIRD Bakery Boss and Hollywood’s Red Carpet Fave |url=https://dfwchild.com/2018/03/29/family-friendly-trails-dallas/ |access-date=October 3, 2020 |website=DFW Child}}</ref> Chambers was later a news correspondent for ”[[Entertainment Tonight]]”, ”[[E! News]]”, and ”[[Access Hollywood]]”,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″>{{cite magazine |date=September 26, 2012 |title=From Hollywood with Love |url=https://sawoman.com/2012/09/from-hollywood-with-love/ |access-date=November 19, 2025 |magazine=San Antonio Woman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Spellberg |first=Claire |date=February 26, 2018 |title=Who Is Armie Hammer’s Wife? Elizabeth Chambers Is An Entrepreneur |url=https://www.elitedaily.com/p/who-is-armie-hammers-wife-elizabeth-chambers-is-entrepreneur-update-8332869 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |website=Elite Daily}}</ref> and was the chief correspondent for the [[Human Rights Foundation]].<ref name=”Reilly 2014″/> She played the role of Kathryn in the 2007 film ”[[The Game Plan (film)|The Game Plan]]”,<!– http://www.thefilmfile.com/reviews/g/07_gameplan.htm –><ref name=”Gill 2021″>{{cite web |last=Gill |first=Cassie |date=March 18, 2021 |title=Elizabeth Chambers: 5 Things About The Actress, 38, Divorcing Armie Hammer Amid New Rape Allegation |url=https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is-elizabeth-chambers-4130356/ |access-date=November 23, 2025 |website=Hollywood Life }}</ref><ref name=”Carter 2022″>{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Simone |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Breaks Silence About ‘Heartbreaking’ Armie Hammer Doc |url=https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-chambers-breaks-silence-about-heartbreaking-armie-hammer-doc-1745069 |access-date=November 23, 2025 |work=Newsweek }}</ref> and also appeared in various television shows, including ”[[Criminal Minds]]”, ”[[Shark (American TV series)|Shark]]”,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″/> ”[[Moonlight (American TV series)|Moonlight]]”,<ref name=”Reilly 2014″/> and ”[[2 Broke Girls]]”.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/> and walked the runway for the [[Victoria’s Secret]] fashion show in 2007.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/> In 2017, Chambers was the “Most Beautiful Foodie” according to ”[[People (magazine)|People]]”.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ewing-Chow |first=Daphne |date=June 30, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Explores The Culinary Scene Of The Cayman Islands While Under Quarantine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2020/06/30/elizabeth-chambers-explores-the-culinary-scene-of-the-cayman-islands-while-under-quarantine/ |access-date=October 6, 2020 |magazine=Forbes}}</ref>

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Chambers had a passion for cooking from an early age as her mother and grandmother respectively owned one of San Antonio’s first natural-food stores and ran a local catering company.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/><ref name=”Strout 2024″>{{cite magazine |last=Strout |first=Paige |date=March 23, 2024 |title=Learn How to Make Elizabeth Chambers’ Delicious Banana Pudding |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/food/news/learn-how-to-make-elizabeth-chambers-delicious-banana-pudding/ |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Us Weekly }}</ref> In a December 2022 interview with ”Entertainment Tonight”, Chambers said: “In the world where you don’t know what the outcome is going to be, if you know that you can combine two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three cups of flour, you know the outcome, there is something so reassuring and therapeutic about that.”<ref name=”Strout 2024″/>

Chambers had a passion for cooking from an early age as her mother and grandmother respectively owned one of San Antonio’s first natural-food stores and ran a local catering company.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/><ref name=”Strout 2024″>{{cite magazine |last=Strout |first=Paige |date=March 23, 2024 |title=Learn How to Make Elizabeth Chambers’ Delicious Banana Pudding |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/food/news/learn-how-to-make-elizabeth-chambers-delicious-banana-pudding/ |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Us Weekly }}</ref> In a December 2022 interview with ”Entertainment Tonight”, Chambers said: “In the world where you don’t know what the outcome is going to be, if you know that you can combine two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three cups of flour, you know the outcome, there is something so reassuring and therapeutic about that.”<ref name=”Strout 2024″/>

Chambers is the proprietor of BIRD Bakery,<ref>{{cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=June 22, 2019 |title=Where to Find Monster Cookies From Elizabeth Chambers’ Bird Bakery |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/find-monster-cookies-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-1219143 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dweck |first=Sophie Dweck |date=December 1, 2019 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Hammer: What’s in My Bag? |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/elizabeth-chambers-hammer-whats-in-my-bag/ |access-date=September 18, 2020 |magazine=US Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Petty |first=Kathleen |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Reflects on 10 Years of SA’s Bird Bakery |url=https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-reflects-on-10-years-of-sas-bird-bakery/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250813202121/https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-reflects-on-10-years-of-sas-bird-bakery/ |archive-date=August 13, 2025 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=San Antonio Magazine }}</ref> which opened in San Antonio in 2012 and in Dallas in 2016.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ewing-Chow |first=Daphne |date=May 8, 2023 |title=When American Nostalgia Meets Cayman Kind: Elizabeth Chambers’ BIRD Bakery Goes Global |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2023/05/08/when-american-nostalgia-meets-cayman-kind-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-goes-global/ |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Forbes }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Walchef |first=Shawn P. |date=August 22, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers of BIRD Bakery on How to Expand in Business with Authenticity |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/elizabeth-chambers-of-bird-bakery-on-how-to-expand-in/457626 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Entrepreneur }}</ref> Its baked goods are based on recipes from her grandmother’s kitchen,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Jobe |first=Linden Wilson |date=November 2, 2016 |title=TV Host/Entrepreneur Opens a New Dallas Bakery With San Antonio Ties (and a Cult Following) |url=https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/model-tv-host-elizabeth-chambers-new-dallas-bakery-bird-bakery-cult-following |access-date=January 26, 2021 |magazine=PaperCity Magazine}}</ref> she said it “all felt very full circle” as the bakery in San Antonio is located one block away from the street where she was born.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> As she oversaw the opening of the second bakery in Dallas, her family split time between Texas and California.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> In 2019, two employees of BIRD Bakery, who were apparently acting independently, were charged with the theft of a total of over $120,000 from the business over several years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sabawi |first=Fares |date=July 13, 2018 |title=Bird Bakery makes statement on of employee theft investigation |url=https://www.middletownpress.com/news/local/crime/article/Bird-Bakery-responds-to-news-of-employee-theft-13073537.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209014806/https://www.middletownpress.com/news/local/crime/article/Bird-Bakery-responds-to-news-of-employee-theft-13073537.php |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=August 29, 2019 |work=The Middletown Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Sabawi |first=Fares |date=August 29, 2019 |title=Second employee implicated in Bird Bakery theft scheme |url=https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/08/29/second-employee-implicated-in-bird-bakery-theft-scheme/ |access-date=January 19, 2022 |website=KSAT TV}}</ref>

Chambers is the proprietor of BIRD Bakery,<ref>{{cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=June 22, 2019 |title=Where to Find Monster Cookies From Elizabeth Chambers’ Bird Bakery |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/find-monster-cookies-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-1219143 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dweck |first=Sophie Dweck |date=December 1, 2019 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Hammer: What’s in My Bag? |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/elizabeth-chambers-hammer-whats-in-my-bag/ |access-date=September 18, 2020 |magazine=US Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Petty |first=Kathleen |date=November 1, 2022 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Reflects on 10 Years of SA’s Bird Bakery |url=https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-reflects-on-10-years-of-sas-bird-bakery/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250813202121/https://www.sanantoniomag.com/elizabeth-chambers-reflects-on-10-years-of-sas-bird-bakery/ |archive-date=August 13, 2025 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=San Antonio Magazine }}</ref> which opened in San Antonio in 2012 and in Dallas in 2016.<ref name=”Gill 2021″/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ewing-Chow |first=Daphne |date=May 8, 2023 |title=When American Nostalgia Meets Cayman Kind: Elizabeth Chambers’ BIRD Bakery Goes Global |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2023/05/08/when-american-nostalgia-meets-cayman-kind-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-goes-global/ |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Forbes }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Walchef |first=Shawn P. |date=August 22, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers of BIRD Bakery on How to Expand in Business with Authenticity |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/elizabeth-chambers-of-bird-bakery-on-how-to-expand-in/457626 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |magazine=Entrepreneur }}</ref> Its baked goods are based on recipes from her grandmother’s kitchen,<ref name=”San Antonio Woman 2012″/><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Jobe |first=Linden Wilson |date=November 2, 2016 |title=TV Host/Entrepreneur Opens a New Dallas Bakery With San Antonio Ties (and a Cult Following) |url=https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/model-tv-host-elizabeth-chambers-new-dallas-bakery-bird-bakery-cult-following |access-date=January 26, 2021 |magazine=PaperCity Magazine}}</ref> she said it “all felt very full circle” as the bakery in San Antonio is located one block away from the street where she was born.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> As she oversaw the opening of the second bakery in Dallas, her family split time between Texas and California.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> In 2019, two employees of BIRD Bakery, who were apparently acting independently, were charged with the theft of a total of over $120,000 from the business over several years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sabawi |first=Fares |date=July 13, 2018 |title=Bird Bakery makes statement on of employee theft investigation |url=https://www.middletownpress.com/news/local/crime/article/Bird-Bakery-responds-to-news-of-employee-theft-13073537.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209014806/https://www.middletownpress.com/news/local/crime/article/Bird-Bakery-responds-to-news-of-employee-theft-13073537.php |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=August 29, 2019 |work=The Middletown Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Sabawi |first=Fares |date=August 29, 2019 |title=Second employee implicated in Bird Bakery theft scheme |url=https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/08/29/second-employee-implicated-in-bird-bakery-theft-scheme/ |access-date=January 19, 2022 |website=KSAT TV}}</ref>

In June 2019, as the owner of BIRD Baker, Chambers was a guest judge on the Food Network’s ”Best Baker in America”.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barney |first=Chuck |date=June 25, 2019 |title=”Best Baker in America”: And the Bay Area winner is … |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/24/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250717152525/https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/24/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |archive-date=July 17, 2025 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=The Mercury News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Burney |first=Chuck |date=June 25, 2019 |title=”Best Baker in America”: And the winner is … |url=https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2019/06/25/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126191013/https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2019/06/25/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |work=Daily Democrat }}</ref> In February and March 2020, she was also a guest judge on ”Chopped Sweets”.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gilliland |first=Sarah |date=January 3, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers credits her baking skills with landing television and film roles: ‘My career is 30% my talent and 70% my cookies’ |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elizabeth-chambers-credits-her-baking-skills-with-landing-television-and-film-roles-my-career-is-30-my-talent-and-70-my-cookies-171033744.html |access-date=November 19, 2025 |website=Yahoo Life}}</ref> In June 2020, Chambers raised money for the San Antonio Food Bank.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rangel |first=Nina |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Bird Bakery Owner and Fashion Designer Team Up to Raise $7,100 for San Antonio Food Bank |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/06/26/bird-bakery-owner-and-fashion-designer-team-up-to-raise-7100-for-san-antonio-food-bank |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616135801/https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/06/26/bird-bakery-owner-and-fashion-designer-team-up-to-raise-7100-for-san-antonio-food-bank |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |work=San Antonio Current}}</ref> In October 2020, she launched Vision Visors, which made [[Cloth face mask|face masks]] for children.<ref>{{cite web |last=Aggarwal |first=Nehal |date=September 11, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Is Launching Her Own Brand of Kids’ Face Shields |url=https://www.thebump.com/news/elizabeth-chambers-launches-vision-visor-kids-face-shields |access-date=October 6, 2020 |website=The Bump}}</ref> BIRD Bakery also partnered with cancer non-profit Salood, for which she helped design a cookie to benefit pediatric cancer patients.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rangel |first=Nina |date=August 21, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers of San Antonio’s Bird Bakery Partners With Childhood Cancer Nonprofit |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/08/21/elizabeth-chambers-of-san-antonios-bird-bakery-partners-with-childhood-cancer-nonprofit |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010014250/https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/08/21/elizabeth-chambers-of-san-antonios-bird-bakery-partners-with-childhood-cancer-nonprofit |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |work=San Antonio Current}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Booth |first=Georgina Lara |date=September 2, 2020 |title=Interview with Elizabeth Chambers: BIRD Bakery, Salood and the special “Drew Monster Cookie” for brave 8 year old cancer fighter |url=https://nl.mashable.com/social-good/2194/interview-with-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-salood-and-the-special-drew-monster-cookie-for-brave-8 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=Mashable}}</ref> Unsold food at BIRD Bakery is boxed and picked up by local non-profits, including among others churches, fire, and police departments, the [[Fisher House Foundation]], and the [[Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Suta |first=Kimberly A. |date=May 13, 2020 |title=BIRD Bakery: Made with Love, Just like Mom, Maybe even Better |url=https://txliving.com/bird-bakery-made-with-love-just-like-mom-maybe-even-better/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209014801/https://txliving.com/bird-bakery-made-with-love-just-like-mom-maybe-even-better/ |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2020 |magazine=Texas Living}}</ref> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Chambers ran BIRD Bakery from the [[Cayman Islands]], where she had relocated.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> In 2021, she opened a third bakery in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/>

In June 2019, as the owner of BIRD Baker, Chambers was a guest judge on the Food Network’s ”Best Baker in America”.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barney |first=Chuck |date=June 25, 2019 |title=”Best Baker in America”: And the Bay Area winner is … |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/24/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250717152525/https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/24/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |archive-date=July 17, 2025 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=The Mercury News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Burney |first=Chuck |date=June 25, 2019 |title=”Best Baker in America”: And the winner is … |url=https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2019/06/25/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126191013/https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2019/06/25/best-baker-in-america-and-the-winner-is/ |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |access-date=November 21, 2025 |work=Daily Democrat }}</ref> In February and March 2020, she was also a guest judge on ”Chopped Sweets”.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gilliland |first=Sarah |date=January 3, 2023 |title=Elizabeth Chambers credits her baking skills with landing television and film roles: ‘My career is 30% my talent and 70% my cookies’ |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elizabeth-chambers-credits-her-baking-skills-with-landing-television-and-film-roles-my-career-is-30-my-talent-and-70-my-cookies-171033744.html |access-date=November 19, 2025 |website=Yahoo Life}}</ref> In June 2020, Chambers raised money for the San Antonio Food Bank.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rangel |first=Nina |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Bird Bakery Owner and Fashion Designer Team Up to Raise $7,100 for San Antonio Food Bank |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/06/26/bird-bakery-owner-and-fashion-designer-team-up-to-raise-7100-for-san-antonio-food-bank |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616135801/https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/06/26/bird-bakery-owner-and-fashion-designer-team-up-to-raise-7100-for-san-antonio-food-bank |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |work=San Antonio Current}}</ref> In October 2020, she launched Vision Visors, which made [[Cloth face mask|face masks]] for children.<ref>{{cite web |last=Aggarwal |first=Nehal |date=September 11, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers Is Launching Her Own Brand of Kids’ Face Shields |url=https://www.thebump.com/news/elizabeth-chambers-launches-vision-visor-kids-face-shields |access-date=October 6, 2020 |website=The Bump}}</ref> BIRD Bakery also partnered with cancer non-profit Salood, for which she helped design a cookie to benefit pediatric cancer patients.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rangel |first=Nina |date=August 21, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Chambers of San Antonio’s Bird Bakery Partners With Childhood Cancer Nonprofit |url=https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/08/21/elizabeth-chambers-of-san-antonios-bird-bakery-partners-with-childhood-cancer-nonprofit |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010014250/https://www.sacurrent.com/Flavor/archives/2020/08/21/elizabeth-chambers-of-san-antonios-bird-bakery-partners-with-childhood-cancer-nonprofit |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |work=San Antonio Current}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Booth |first=Georgina Lara |date=September 2, 2020 |title=Interview with Elizabeth Chambers: BIRD Bakery, Salood and the special “Drew Monster Cookie” for brave 8 year old cancer fighter |url=https://nl.mashable.com/social-good/2194/interview-with-elizabeth-chambers-bird-bakery-salood-and-the-special-drew-monster-cookie-for-brave-8 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=Mashable}}</ref> Unsold food at BIRD Bakery is boxed and picked up by local non-profits, including among others churches, fire, and police departments, the [[Fisher House Foundation]], and the [[Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Suta |first=Kimberly A. |date=May 13, 2020 |title=BIRD Bakery: Made with Love, Just like Mom, Maybe even Better |url=https://txliving.com/bird-bakery-made-with-love-just-like-mom-maybe-even-better/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209014801/https://txliving.com/bird-bakery-made-with-love-just-like-mom-maybe-even-better/ |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=October 23, 2020 |magazine=Texas Living}}</ref> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Chambers ran BIRD Bakery from the [[Cayman Islands]], where she had relocated.<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/> In 2021, she opened a third bakery in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref name=”Minutaglio 2023″/>

American actress (born 1982)

Elizabeth Chambers (born August 18, 1982) is an American television personality and the founder of the Texas-based BIRD Bakery retail chain. During her career, she also appeared in various films, television series, and culinary shows. From 2010 to 2023, she was married to actor Armie Hammer.

Chambers was born on August 18, 1982, in San Antonio, Texas.^[1][2][3] She is the oldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother, Maureen Carnathan, was of British descent and raised in India;^[4][5] she helped care for her grandmother after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.^[6] Her parents divorced when she was two, and she and her mom left Texas, first for Colorado and then California, before returning to Colorado, where she attended high school.^[6] She said that Texas always felt like a “safe space”.^[6]

Chambers studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.^[7] Her first job was as a correspondent at Al Gore‘s television network Current TV.^[8] Chambers was later a news correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, E! News, and Access Hollywood,^[9][10] and was the chief correspondent for the Human Rights Foundation.^[1] She played the role of Kathryn in the 2007 film The Game Plan,^[11][12] and also appeared in various television shows, including Criminal Minds, Shark,^[9] Moonlight,^[1] and 2 Broke Girls.^[11] and walked the runway for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in 2007.^[11] In 2017, Chambers was the “Most Beautiful Foodie” according to People.^[13]

Chambers was the host of several culinary shows and filmed holiday cooking,^[14] including on the Cooking Channel (Sugar Showdown),^[3] the Food Network (The Kitchen,^[15] Cupcake Wars,^[7] Best Baker in America,^[16] and Chopped Sweets),^[14][15] and was also a host on various television shows, including Today,^[14][17] for interviews about her brand as a businesswoman.^[6] In May 2013, she was a guest on the CNBC show Crowd Rules.^[18] In 2020, Chambers was named to the University of Texas at Austin‘s “Outstanding Alumni” list.^[19] In 2024, she starred in the reality television series Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise.^[20][21][22] In 2025, she was the host of the Investigation Discovery true crime series Toxic.^[23]

Chambers had a passion for cooking from an early age as her mother and grandmother respectively owned one of San Antonio’s first natural-food stores and ran a local catering company.^[6][24] In a December 2022 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Chambers said: “In the world where you don’t know what the outcome is going to be, if you know that you can combine two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three cups of flour, you know the outcome, there is something so reassuring and therapeutic about that.”^[24]

Chambers is the proprietor of BIRD Bakery,^[25][26][27] which opened in San Antonio in 2012 and in Dallas in 2016.^[11][28][29] Its baked goods are based on recipes from her grandmother’s kitchen,^[9][30] and she said it “all felt very full circle” as the bakery in San Antonio is located one block away from the street where she was born.^[6] As she oversaw the opening of the second bakery in Dallas, her family split time between Texas and California.^[6] In 2019, two employees of BIRD Bakery, who were apparently acting independently, were charged with the theft of a total of over $120,000 from the business over several years.^[31][32]

In June 2019, as the owner of BIRD Baker, Chambers was a guest judge on the Food Network’s Best Baker in America.^[33][34] In February and March 2020, she was also a guest judge on Chopped Sweets.^[35] In June 2020, Chambers raised money for the San Antonio Food Bank.^[36] In October 2020, she launched Vision Visors, which made face masks for children.^[37] BIRD Bakery also partnered with cancer non-profit Salood, for which she helped design a cookie to benefit pediatric cancer patients.^[38][39] Unsold food at BIRD Bakery is boxed and picked up by local non-profits, including among others churches, fire, and police departments, the Fisher House Foundation, and the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation.^[40] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chambers ran BIRD Bakery from the Cayman Islands, where she had relocated.^[6] In 2021, she opened a third bakery in Denver, Colorado.^[6]

In 2007, Chambers met Hammer through a mutual friend in Los Angeles, California.^[6] After a few months of friendship and nine months of dating, Hammer proposed to Chambers, and their wedding was celebrated at the All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, California.^[6] Their weeding was featured in a spread for Town & Country and other publications.^[11] During their time together, they had two children.^[41][42][43] In 2018, Chambers and Hammer bought a $4.7 million mansion in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, to raise their children.^[6] In the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States,^[44] she moved to the Cayman Islands with their children.^[45][46]

Chambers and Hammer separated in July 2020.^[47] Citing irreconcilable differences,^[48] Chambers filed for divorce, which was finalized in June 2023.^[49][50] She said that for most of her marriage to Hammer, the couple was seeing psychotherapist Esther Perel,^[6] and that a “divorce is a death” and it was “the last thing [she] ever wanted”.^[12] As of 2023, she was dating a 26-year-old European boyfriend who she said was helping heal “my body, my heart, and my mind”.^[6] By 2024, Chambers and her children moved back to the United States in Los Angeles.^[48] Hammer’s mother later acknowledged that he had infidelities,^[51] and Hammer himself admitted in a 2023 interview to Air Mail of having had an affair in 2016, that their sexual relationship involved “consensual non-consent” role play, and that he confessed the affair to Chambers,^[6] who avoided speaking publicly about him.^[6]

In an Instagram post in February 2021, Chambers addressed sexual abuse allegations against Hammer, offering support for “any victim of assault or abuse”,^[6] while stating to be “shocked, heartbroken, and devastated” and that she “didn’t realize how much I didn’t know”.^[12] After watching House of Hammer, a Discovery+ docuseries about the abuse allegations,^[52] having turned down the offer to take part to it, she told E! News: “It was obviously heartbreaking on so many levels and very painful. But at the same time, it exists … The past is the past and all we can do is take this as a moment to learn and listen, and hopefully process and heal in every capacity.”^[12] She added that she considered herself a feminist and “in solidarity with anyone who has been a victim of any sort and hope they find healing”.^[12] In September 2022, released documents suggested that Chambers was involved with the multiple women who came forward with claims of abuse against Hammer. Based on messages posted by Effie (the main accuser against Hammer), there were allegations that Chambers collaborated with them. The messages, which were posted on Effie’s Instagram account, showed that Chambers allegedly asked Effie to formally file a complaint against Hammer. Effie accused Chambers in a statement of wanting to “profit” from the situation.^[53][54]

Year	Title	Notes
2005–2006	Criminal Minds	Herself, 2 episodes (“The Fox” and “The Performer”)
2007	Shark	“Hot Woman”, 2 episodes (“Wayne’s World 2” and “Revenge of the Shark”)
2007	Moonlight	Uncredited “Victoria’s Secret Model”, 1 episode (“Sleeping Beauty”)
2015–2017	Sugar Showdown	Judge, 6 episodes
2015	The Kitchen	Guest, 1 episode (“First Taste of Fall”)
2016	Cupcake Wars	Judge, 7 episodes
2016	2 Broke Girls	Vanessa Nibotita, 1 episode (“And the Two Openings: Part Two”)
2019	Best Baker in America	Judge, 1 episode (“All-American Birthday Bash: Chocolate-Flavored”)
2020	Chopped Sweets	Chef and judge, 3 episodes (“Tiny Treats”, “Tough Cookies”, and “Million Dollar Desserts”)
2024–present	Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise	Executive producer, 10 episodes
2025	Toxic	Executive producer, 6 episodes