BIBLIOGRAPY BRIGITTE BRITTON

Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1957 Brigitte Malaaya migrated to New York City in 1960. After graduating High School 3 years in advance completing her last year in Florence, Italy she started her first career as an Haute Couture (High Fashion) designer, apprenticing as assistant designer in the family Couture Knitwear Manufacturer, Export business from 1971 to 1973. While living in Europe Brigitte Malaaya became fluent in, Spanish, French, English and Italian.

In 1976 Brigitte Malaaya moved back to the United States where she apprenticed for 2 years with Haute Couture Designer Jean-Louis in Beverly Hills, California before going out on her own. She started freelancing as a Costume Designer for several Record Labels such as; Motown, Arista and Atlantic Records designing Costume for Michael Jackson, Bonnie Pointer, Patti La Belle, Billy Idol, and Rick James just to name a few. After years of touring, and burnt out from living on the road, Brigitte Malaaya decided to design her own line of clothing partnering with an established private label manufacturer in Los Angeles, California where she was in charge of over 150 employees producing an average of 10,000 garments per day. (All her original designs)

Long hours, bad eating habits and very little sleep, Brigitte Malaaya became deathly ill from a severe oral Infection because she waited too long before seeing a Dentist. After three years of excruciating pain, 11 oral surgeries, weak Immune System and a massive weight loss, she knew first hand the importance of good health through preventive methods, proper nutrition and exercise. So, in 1995 Brigitte Malaaya decided to change her over all lifestyle and moved to Miami Beach, Florida where she founded No Guilt Gourmet an alternative way of Eating and Exercising right for life program for your Body, Blood Type and present Hormone Status as well as Ingenious TV Productions a Multi-Media TV Commercial and Video company geared mostly towards creating and developing Lifestyle TV Shows, TV Commercials and video/audio tools to properly educate people on Eating and Exercising Right For Life including her own line of Original Gourmet Healthy Recipes.

Growing up in the fashion and restaurant business (Her father a master French Chef and Entrepreneur) Brigitte Malaaya discovered her passion for cooking at the age of nine and has been cooking ever since. She developed No Guilt Gourmet a series of healthy gourmet recipes and pre-prepared meals building an impressive clientele in South Beach with over 300 clients on her program within the first year of its inception. Due to the popularity of her program she was offered her own column in a local Fashion newspaper called “FASHION TIMES” where she wrote about Eating & Living Right For Life. As her reputation grew Brigitte went on to Produce special events for Amazon.com, Panalpania, Channel Magazine and Thunderclub Entertainment just to name a few. All the while producing, writing and creating TV Commercials for “A Fish Called Avalon on Ocean Drive, Stella’s Hair and Beauty Salon in South Beach, Palm Beach and New York City and The Mercury Resort Hotel among many others.

One morning Brigitte Malaaya found a lump in her breast (which turned out to be non-malignant) and realized she knew NOTHING about Breast Cancer & Breast Cancer Prevention (B.S.E. and Mammogram) needless to say it scared the hell out of her which is when she made it her mission to educate herself finding out EVERYTHING she could about the disease and what she could do to prevent it. It was only after losing several friends to Breast Cancer that she realized that millions of women were in the dark about this deadly disease which is why she founded The Ingenious Foundation, not for profit 501-c 3 status foundation dedicated towards spreading awareness in preventive methods against Breast Cancer through Video/Audio tools and created the first Breast Self Exam B.S.E. video to teach women worldwide how to check themselves monthly. (You can go on line @ www.ingeniousfoundation.com click on Navigate here, then click on Stream of Exam to see the Video directly on the web-site).

The Importance of taking care of one’s self physically, spiritually and emotionally can be achieved by developing a Balance in your life. Brigitte Malaaya has just completed writing a series of four books titled “Living In Balance For Life” a 90-day step-by-step guide for eating, exercising and thinking right for your life for your Body, Blood Type and Hormone status. “Living In Balance For Life” are a series of Mind, Body Spirit Fitness & Nutrition books to be released after 2004 and will cover everything YOU ever wanted to know about YOUR over all health and well being in conversational format, with interactive DVDS to empower and educate the masses.