[6] Due to her mother's poor health suffering from tuberculosis at birth, she was placed in the care of her grandparents, confectioners Irena and Leon Łucek, who lived in Komorów.

[8] In 1972 Gessler settled in Madrid, where she graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

[9] She published three cookbooks: Kuchnia moja pasja (2005), Kocham gotować – Magdy Gessler przepis na życie (2007) and Kuchenne Rewolucje.

In 2019, she was a host of the Odkrycia Magdy Gessler programme aired on Food Network TV channel.

She appeared on popular TV shows such as Niania (2008) and Na Wspólnej (2014), the Polish trailer of Netflix comedy-drama Orange Is the New Black (2018)[10] as well as Big Brother (2019).

[13] Her restaurants include: Zielnik Cafe, U Fukiera, Słodki... Słony, Ale Gloria, Venezia, Jadka (all in Warsaw), Polka in Żelazowa Wola, Kryształowa in Katowice and Santo Porto in Gdynia.