Babette Davis is a vegan chef, restaurateur, grandmother, and fitness advocate. Babette Davis is best known for owning Stuff I Eat in Inglewood, California, and for her "Seven at Seventy" photo series.

Babette Davis switched to a plant‑based diet in 1990 after meeting her husband, Ron, and Babette Davis reversed chronic health problems before opening Stuff I Eat in 2008 during the recession. Babette Davis’s exact height and net worth are not publicly documented. Any numbers you find for those should be treated as estimates, not facts.

Quick Facts

Note: The birth year 1950 and the net worth figure of 2–3 million appear in some bio round‑ups. No interview, filing, or database check confirms either the birth year 1950 or the net worth figure of 2–3 million. Therefore, we have left them out here. Do not repeat them as fact.

Who Is Babette Davis?

Babette Davis grew up in East Los Angeles. Babette Davis faced health challenges, such as eczema, asthma, and indigestion, for years. Those problems were hard to manage. In 1990, Babette Davis met Ron. Ron would become Babette Daviss's husband. That meeting changed everything. Ron introduced Babette Davis to fitness and plant‑based eating.

This change was a turning point for Babette Davis.

Babette doesn’t like to call herself a chef. She prefers to say she’s a “chemist in the kitchen.” She never went to cooking school—she taught herself how to cook, and that self-taught approach became the foundation of her restaurant. She used her own experience, curiosity, and kitchen experiments to build something real.

She and Ron sold vegan tacos and other dishes out of a spiritual center’s parking lot for six years before landing the building that became Stuff I Eat.

The Stuff I Eat Story

Babette opened Stuff I Eat in Inglewood back in 2008. That was right in the middle of the U.S. Recession is the downturn since the Great Depression. Stuff I Eat serves vegan organic soul food. Every dish is made without any animal products. Uses ingredients that are grown organically. People rave about the enchilada pie the enchilada pie is a twist on a classic dish, and the chocolate raspberry cake is a favorite, for many customers who say it is one of the best desserts they have ever tasted. The location matters as much as the menu. Inglewood, like underserved neighborhoods, has had limited access to fresh plant‑based food for a long time. Babette built her business specifically to change that. By 2026 Stuff I Eat had been serving the Inglewood community for 18 years. Babette keeps marking that anniversary with merchandise drops and community updates instead of slowing down.

Why Babette Davis Went Viral

Babette’s sudden rise to attention came from a personal project, not a marketing campaign. While going through old photos with her daughter, she realized she hadn’t changed much physically since her thirties.

For her 70th birthday, she decided to show that with a daily photo series leading up to December 7, calling it “Seven at Seventy.” She wore a tankini and matching headwrap, and the pictures quickly spread across social media.

She’s been open that the reaction surprised her. In interviews, she’s described the response as less about vanity and more about proving that aging doesn’t have to look the way people expect it to look.

What Changed in Her Health After Going Vegan

Babette says that around age 40, she switched to a plant-based diet, and that change helped heal problems she’d suffered for years—eczema, asthma, and chronic indigestion. She believes the improvement came from cutting out wheat, dairy, and fried foods and building her meals around plant-based ingredients.

Babette Davis’s Daily Routine

Babette’s schedule is one of the clearest, most repeatable details she’s shared publicly—which makes it useful for readers who want specifics rather than vague ideas.

• Wakes up around 2:30 a.m.

• Does a 30–40 minute workout before sunrise

• Gets to Stuff I Eat by 5 a.m.

• Works at the restaurant until about noon

• Spends afternoons developing recipes or resting

She says her workouts are a must in her routine, not something she does only occasionally, and she connects that consistency directly to how she looks and feels in

 her 70s.

Babette Davis’s husband, Ron

In interviews Ron is talked about as the person who first showed Babette how to do fitness and to eat more plant-based foods. They met in 1990, when Babette was in her 40s. Soon after they started dating, Ron gave Babette the book Fit for Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. Babette has called that book her health bible. The book changed the way Babette thinks about food. Ron and Babette ran a food stand for six years. After that they opened Stuff I Eat. The business grew from their teamwork. Was not a solo project that Babette started later.

How Ron Kept the Restaurant Open Through COVID

During the pandemic, Babette gave Ron credit for the decision to keep Stuff I Eat open instead of closing the business. In a 2021 interview with LAIKA Magazine, she said Ron told the staff they’d switch to pickup, reduce hours, and keep every worker paid instead of stopping operations.

That decision meant the restaurant never fully closed during COVID, and no employee lost their job—a detail that says more about how the couple actually runs the business than any follower count would.

Babette Davis Net Worth: What’s Actually Known

There is no disclosure, court filing, or verified estimate of Babette Davis’s net worth in public circulation. Any specific dollar figure attached to her name online isn’t sourced to anything verifiable.

What is documented is the business itself: an 18-year-old restaurant in Inglewood, a cookbook, paid speaking engagements, and a social media following built without a PR team or studio backing. That’s a real, sustained small-business income stream—but it doesn’t translate into a defensible net worth number without private financial records.

Bottom line: treat any net worth figure you see cited for Babette Davis, including the $2–3 million estimate that circulates on some bio sites, as unverified.

Grandmother, Not Just Chef

Babette Davis is also a grandmother. She has mentioned this fact in interviews, though she doesn’t lead with it publicly. Her public persona centers on the restaurant and her fitness routine rather than her extended family, and she’s kept most family details private by choice.

That’s worth noting for readers specifically because it cuts against the “she has children, details unknown” framing some bio pages use—the grandmother detail is the one piece of family information she’s actually confirmed on record.

2026 Update: What’s New

• Stuff I Eat celebrated its 18th year in Inglewood in 2026 and launched a new merchandise line to mark the occasion.

• Babette continued appearing in health and lifestyle media through 2026, including one piece calling her a “73-year-old vegan chef and fitness enthusiast.”

• She keeps posting workout videos and behind‑the‑scenes restaurant clips on Instagram. This remains her primary way of reaching new fans.

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References

• xoNecole—"Babette Davis"
• Lady Freethinker — Q&A with Chef Babette
• LA Sentinel—Chef Babette Davis interview
• Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper—"73-Year-Old Vegan Chef... Defying Your Age”
• Blavity—"Black Woman Making Vegan Cuisine”
• LAIKA Magazine—"At 70, Vegan Chef Babette Davis is Living Her Best Life”