Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Journalist                          

Selected Works:

A Guide to Australian Etiquette - 2011
Eating for Eye Health: the Macular Degeneration Cookbook, co-authored with Sydney chef Vanessa Jones - 2009
Get in Shape: A complete workout for strength, health & vitality, co-authored with Lee Campbell - 2007
Motherguilt: Australian women reveal their true feelings about Motherhood, co-authored with Dr Penny Adams - 2005; reprinted 2006
How Much Is Enough? Your Financial Roadmap To A Happy Retirement, co- authored with Will Buttrose and Mike Galgut - 2003
What is Love? - 2000
A Word to the Wise - 1999
A Passionate Life - 1998; updated paperback version published 2001
Every Occasion: The Guide to Modern Etiquette - 1985
Early Edition: My First Forty Years - 1985.                          

Mother 
Father Charles Buttrose
First husband Alasdair Macdonald, two children.
Second husband Peter Sawyer 1979- 1980                          

Women's editor at the Telegraph.

Founding editor of Cleo - 1972
Youngest person to be appointed editor of the Women's Weekly - 1975–6
Editor-in-chief of both publications from 1976–78
Publisher of Australian Consolidated Press Women's Division from 1978–81
Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph - 1981
First female editor of a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia - 1981-1984
Appointed to the board of News Limited - 1981
Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS - NACAIDS - 1984 - 1988
Founded her own publishing company, Capricorn Publishing - 1984
Founded Good Life Publishing Company - 2005
 Officer of the Order of the British Empire - OBE -  1979
Officer of the Order of Australia - A - 1988
Awarded the Centenary Medal - 2003

Patron:
Women of Vision
World Vision Australia
The University of Third Age
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Australia, 
Amarant 
National Menopause Foundation
Sydney Women's Festival
Safety House
National Institute of Secretaries and Administrators
Variety Club 'Personality of the Year' - 1984
Named Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's 'Australian of the Year - 1993
President of Alzheimer's Australia - 2011
Editor-at-Large of OK! Magazine.
Ita Buttrose and Cleo were the subject of the ABC-TV two-part telemovie Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo - 2011.
                          

Left school at 15 years of age.
Ita Buttrose Buttrose became pregnant with her second child, Ben, but worked through her pregnancy, when it was still common for women to have to give up work permanently after they became pregnant.