Fredrica, a.k.a. Fredde writes stories of growing up in Beverly Hills on her blog Channeling the Food Critic in Me. Her children, Oliver,
Augie Duke and
Barnaby Duke, are artists and performers. Her father,
Maurice Duke, handicapped from polio, was a one-of-a-kind B-movie producer, about whom she has completed a documentary. Her husband,
Michael Barrie, was a writer for the Late Show with David Letterman. Her brother Alan, was a senior vice president of Walt Disney TV.