Martha "Sissy" Cargill Biggers (born Martha Lyons Cargill on July 3, 1957) is an American television personality and lifestyle expert. She has hosted the

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's '' Ready.. Set... Cook!'' and Lifetime's ''Biggers & Summers'' and ''Live from Queens'' talk shows. In 2001 Biggers also served as floor reporter on the short-lived reality television series Iron Chef USA. She has been a regular lifestyles contributor for ''

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''.

Personal life

Biggers graduated from

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. She is married to Reeve Kelsey Biggers Jr., a grandson of John David Biggers, former chief executive officer of the

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company who conducted the first unemployment census in 1938 at the request of President

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. She is mother of two children.

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1957 births Living people American television actresses American television personalities Actresses from Minneapolis Barnard College alumni 21st-century American women {{US-tv-actor-1950s-stub