Nadia Geller Nadia Geller Nadia Geller is an American interior designer, artist and television personality from Schaumburg, Illinois, near Chicago. She is best known for her roles as a host and designer on The Learning Channel "While You Were Out", "Home Made Simple" and "Trading Spaces". She has been cast in TLC's upcoming series "Date My House". As a child, Geller often helped friends and family redo rooms in their homes and had completed her first room renovation at age 4. At Schaumburg High School, Geller was a successful long distance runner, but after enrolling at art classes in college, she shifted
Monica Geller several cooking-related jobs throughout the series, having worked at five different restaurants, a trend that nearly coincides with her constant rotation of boyfriends in an ongoing search for the "perfect match". Michael Hogan of "The Guardian" believes that the character's "competitive, perfectionist, obsessive-compulsive nature made her ideally suited to a career as a chef." However, her love of cooking and food is also responsible for her having been extremely overweight as a child, throughout high school and college. The running gag of an overweight Monica is often used as a recurring backstory for the character throughout the series, first explored