Her attitude was "what the heck." His attitude was tidy, and orderly, that everything must structured, and his brother described his personality as "prickly". Julia Child and Paul Child were two extremely different people. Paul was born in New Jersey. His father died while Paul was young. He became a teacher in Italy. While he taught in Italy, he also taught Judo. Later he joined the foreign services, there he was assigned to the Marseilles Bonn. Later he joined the Office of Strategic Service. Julia was born in California. She went to Smith College and got her Bachelor's degree in English. She tried to join the military, but disqualified because of her height. So she joined the Office of Strategic Services. The Office of Strategic Services was organized in World War 2, it was a centralized system of strategic intelligence. It held records of war, and helped the army. In the Office of Strategic Services is where Julia and Paul met. at first their relationship was rocky. But eventually they fell in love and married. When they got married they went to Paris, and Julia fell in love with their culture. She began her career as a French chef. She wrote cookbooks, and Paul drew the illustrations for them. Paul was also a very known, and good poet. Julia was a famous french chef, They both won awards for what they did. Julia believed that every woman should own a flame thrower. She was a breast cancer survivor. She wanted everyone to get the chance to make french food, so along with her half hour segments on television, she spent at least 19 hours preparing another one for deaf people. She was bright, competent, and well liked. Paul and Julia were about the same height. They also both had brown hair.