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A former vegan chef is living a very different life today.

Once the force behind a string of vegan restaurants in Southern California, Mollie Engelhart now lives on a ranch in Texas, raising livestock and serving as co-executive chef at The Barn, a restaurant at her family's Sovereignty Ranch.

Engelhart told Fox News Digital she's best known as being a "vegan chef in Los Angeles with five large vegan restaurants and transitioning to being a cattle rancher in Texas."

She added, "It's not a transition that a lot of people go through."

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