Self

Whatever celebrity diet was going on, I used to read back in the day in the late 90s, early 2000s, there were magazines.

So Cosmo, Health Magazine, Self Magazine, whatever magazine was around, I would buy it and I would try to follow the diet.

And I would hope that my body would then look like the celebrity that was touting the diet, which obviously it never happened.

And I really, I spent so much time and mental energy just trying to control food.

It doesn't talk about anything else.

So I came from magazines in New York, GQ, Self Magazine, where it was for everybody.

And then people got more niche and niche and niche and niche is where we see people really reading again and wanting to read about their neighbors.

So we have all these magazines for that where it's telling the stories of your community.

Yeah.

And I worked in luxury magazines, which I always loved.

So I set up GQ Self.

I worked for Modern Luxury.

I began my career in journalism 23 years ago.

I was 24 when I had my first job in magazines at Self Magazine.

I was a fitness editor.

I think one of my very first bylines was, and I have so much compassion for me and our readers, but it was called like the big cost of little bites.

It's actually called, oh no, the book is called The Bag Lady Papers.

It was written by the former editor-in-chief of Self Magazine, but she lost almost all her money in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

And she kind of coined this term in the book of like the bag lady syndrome, which is a fear that no matter how hard you work and how much you save and do all the responsible things in our discipline, that something could happen.

A partner, kind of what happened to the woman that wrote Strangers, what happened to the woman that wrote the bag lady papers, that you could just lose all your money from something.

But this is where the story, as my man says on, uh, social media, gets interesting.

So there was this magazine called Self Magazine, think I got that right, and Estée Lauder.

You know, yeah, that Estée Lauder.

They wanted to use the ribbon in their breast cancer awareness campaign.

The lady said no, yo.

She said, "Hey, that's not what we doing over here." That, that...

She refused Self Magazine and Estée Lauder because she believed, according to my research, that the effort was becoming too commercial, getting away from the political statement and becoming commercial.

So instead of a peach ribbon, you know what corporate America do, they'll find a way.