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Top Chef's Michael Voltaggio Opens Up About Baby No. 3 — 20 Years After Welcoming First 2 Daughters (Exclusive)

In June, former 'Top Chef' winner Michael Voltaggio became a dad for the third time with the addition of daughter Echo — after raising daughters Olivia and Sophia, now in their 20s.

A lot has changed since he welcomed his oldest child in 1999 and, at 45 years old, he tells PEOPLE that he’s embracing a new approach to parenting while juggling a full slate of work projects. He also can’t help but compare it all, a bit, to his long career with brother Bryan Voltaggio in the restaurant business and on cooking competition shows, from Top Chef season 6 to Bobby's Triple Threat and more. “To be able to take everything that I've learned and now apply it to this situation — and I don't want to say be better at it, but having had that experience and getting to love them and being able to do that again now much older — it’s very similar to everything we're talking about with the restaurants, Bryan and I’s partnership and everything,” Michael says during a sit-down interview with his brother at their Voltaggio Steak House at the MGM National Harbor in Maryland, where they’re debuting a new menu.

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