8 Celebrity Food Allergies

Ever feel like you are the only one in the world reading labels and pestering your waitress with questions about the salad dressing?  Here are eight very successful people who are living with food allergies and intolerances.  Some of them have food allergies themselves, others have children with food allergies. All of them have sucessfully integrated food allergies into their productive, complex lives.

• Ming Tsai, Celebrity chef
• Allergies:  Son has peanut allergy

• Trace Adkins, Country singer
• Allergies: Daughter has peanut allergy

• Frank Dicopoulos, Actor
• Allergy: He, his wife, and child all have shellfish allergy

Trace Adkins, Frank Dicopoulos, and Ming Tsai are "Ambassadors Who Care"  for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN).

• Clay Aiken, American Idol contestant, pop star.
• Allergies:  Tree nuts, mushrooms, shellfish, coffee, chocolate, and mint

• Drew Brees, NFL quarterback
• Allergies:  Gluten, dairy, nuts

• Elisabeth Hasselback, The View
• Allergy: Celiac Disease

• Ray Romano, Actor
• Allergy: Peanut

• Billy Bob Thornton, Actor, singer
• Allergies: Wheat, dairy, shellfish