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Marisa Meltzer

2 years

You may have heard that my next book is all about Glossier and it's out July 2023. I can't wait for you to read it but in the meantime my DMs are open. P.S. you can pre-order your copy here:

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

BIG NEWS: My new book comes out on 4/14 & is available to preorder! THIS IS BIG is part biography of Jean Nidetch, who founded Weight Watchers, and part memoir about me reckoning with a lifetime of dieting. Stay tuned for tour dates and all the vintage WW recipes you can stomach.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

Roxane Gay's new memoir Hunger is some of the best writing about the female body I've read. I profiled her for Elle:

Roxane Gay's New Memoir About Her Weight May Be Her Most Feminist—and Revealing—Act Yet

Fans of essayist and critic Roxane Gay may believe she's already bared all in her quest to expose our hypocrisies.

www.elle.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

My looooong weekend at Spirit Weavers included fairies, DIY IUD removal, the evils of toilet paper, group massage:

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

Radical chic, Lingua Franca, and the official cashmere of #theresistance

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I have an essay in @NYTStyles on my obsession with the founder of Weight Watchers and my own diet history ?amp=1

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

I profiled Chrissy Metz, one of the stars of This Is Us, about weight and dating skinny guys and perseverance

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

I hope this is the most petty yet cathartic essay on The Unfluencer be the pettiest thing you read all day! Maybe all week!!

The Cut

@TheCut

5 years

One woman’s influencer is another woman’s unfluencer, the person who makes you want to do the opposite of whatever they’re doing and throw out whatever you already own that they have posted about, @MarisaMeltzer writes

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

It’s here, the @glossier and Emily Weiss article of your dreams!

How Emily Weiss’s Glossier Grew From Millennial Catnip to Billion-Dollar Juggernaut

Five years ago, the prescient founder created a beauty start-up for the ages. Specifically one age: millennials. With Glossier hitting a $1.2 billion valuation alongside legions of fans—not to...

www.vanityfair.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

I wrote a profile of @RachelCargle for @wpmagazine and how one of the most vital discussions of race and feminism is taking place on Instagram of all places

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

Wrote about the beauty queens of Glossier for Wired. Wish I had another 5000 words just for #glossierpink

The Beauty Upstart With a Radical New Way of Talking to You

If there’s such a thing as designing a millennial approach for selling a product, Glossier gets pretty close: real and unmediated, the antibrand brand.

www.wired.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

It’s here!

The Cut

@TheCut

5 years

Read an excerpt from @MarisaMeltzer ’s “This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World—and Me”

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I wrote a profile of @Busyphilipps25 (w/ Michelle Williams, SoulCycle, her husband's beard, spiked green juice)

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

Curly hair: my life's work, my struggle

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I fell into the "Donna Tartt next book" googling trap and am here to report there's no news

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

I have subscribed to US Weekly since 2000 and so can say for sure this is the best 25 Things so far

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

“...a singular companionate text for those who know the agony of frustration surrounding weight as an issue, both personal and political.” This Is Big is out today and I’m so excited for you to read it.

The Struggle of Weight Loss Is Real. Companionship Helps. (Published 2020)

In “This Is Big,” Marisa Meltzer writes about the bond she formed with Jean Nidetch, the long-ago founder of Weight Watchers.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

What if we were okay with just feeling neutral about our bodies?

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I loved cryotherapy and it made me feel as productive as Tina Brown circa 1987

NYT Styles 💖

@NYTStyles

7 years

“I feel like I had three espressos and could run six miles,” our Me Time explorer after her cryotherapy session

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

There's a new See's Candies in the West Village and it's all just people wandering in off the street and announcing they're from California

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

BIG day!

Jen Marshall

@jenmarshall3

4 years

Look what came yesterday! 💜 ⁦⁦THIS IS BIG by ⁦ @MarisaMeltzer ⁩ and it is mega brilliant. Out 4/14 from ⁦⁦ @littlebrown ⁩

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

Taking dance class as an adult is actually the best

So I Thought I Couldn’t Dance (Published 2019)

Wherein our wellness columnist learns that all she needed was a little choreography from the experts.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

Please go down the Barbie influencer/vaguely political vlogger rabbit hole with me

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

Very uncool to bootleg the feminist sweatshirt that benefits Planned Parenthood even if you're donating proceeds

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

I wrote about the future of women’s clubs in these uncertain times for @TandCmag .

Are Your Friends Worth Paying a Fortune?

Exclusive women's clubs like the Wing can cost thousands of dollars each year. But in a moment when socializing is practically forbidden, are they worth it?

www.townandcountrymag.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

Honored to have interviewed the mother/sister/lover/guru of my dreams.

TOWN&COUNTRY

@TandCmag

4 years

Our May 2020 Issue is here! We put this one to bed before the pandemic changed everything, and while we are all grappling with grief and uncertainty, we hope this issue brings you joy and escape.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

A guy just walked into a salon in Williamsburg and showed his stylist a YouTube video of how to get Mick Jagger hair. She was like, I get it

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

Spent a day with our collective literary mom Tama Janowitz and her horse

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

I have a story in the Feb issue of Elle about crying (and why I never do it). Please read it and tell me if I sound like a sociopath or not.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

I loved writing about Hamptons Hermits, the most gilded kind of agoraphobia

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

I could talk about this for HOURS but would rather do it in person and while touching my own hair a lot

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

2 years

If you're as delighted about this as I am, allow me to recommend my latest book, Glossy, coming September 2023:

Glossier

@glossier

2 years

We often say we were born in New York and raised on the Internet. So, if Glossier were a person, this would be our home. And, honey, we're homeeeee. Glossier NYC is opening Friday, February 17th at 10am at 72 Spring Street. We hope to see you there!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

I wrote about the Frenchfluencers we’ve all been living vicariously through during le confinement.

They Love Paris in the Quarantine (Published 2020)

“Frenchfluencers” (expats who blog or post from France) report increased engagement from stressed Americans seeking escapism.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

Inside SoulCycle auditions (ft. Jeremih, hashtags, vibrations, and Roosters)

SoulCycle Auditions: “American Idol” on a Bike

Thirty-two men and women are evaluated for their “sparkle and shine” at the cycling studio’s teacher tryouts.

www.newyorker.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

The Mellons aka $3000 coats, "metaphysical overtaking," the Winklevii: http://t.co/wTqCZWRrpq

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

@rgay Thank you so much for reading!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

I spoke with model and activist @AshleyGraham about her career, motherhood, and what’s next for @wsjmag :

Supermodel Ashley Graham: Her Rules, Her Game

A look at what’s next for the model and activist—who’s walked the runways, given a TED Talk, launched a podcast and built a business.

www.wsj.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

New Me Time: will Transcendental Meditation turn me into George Harrison?

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

New column ME TIME a first-hand exploration of the health/beauty/fitness/wellness world. This one's about meditation

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

Join me today over on Instagram with @BusyPhilipps to chat about THIS IS BIG! We'll be going live at 11:30am PST / 2:30pm EST.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

Shout out to the guy at the bodega who wished me a happy women's day as I bought tampons + chocolate

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

Why everyone is talking about #selfcare

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

11 years

My Elle story on feminism and diets is up: http://t.co/IWejTP3esr?

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

Here’s what happened: sweat, getting locked out on my fire escape in a sports bra, being a real asshole about the spin doctors

NYT Styles 💖

@NYTStyles

7 years

Our Me Time columnist liked the idea of spinning at home with Flywheel. Here's what happened

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

Perfect thread

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

11 years

I wrote a piece on feminism and dieting (and Liz Phair, leather shorts, and fat camp) for January Elle. I hope you'll go seek it out.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

You guys it came. My first holiday gift guide email. ☠️

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I spent some time in the Kundalini yoga world: turbans, prosperity, orgasms, and "little Palo Santo wellness girls"

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

The radical feminist history of Instagram's favorite T-shirt

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

Vogue anticipates me

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

This spring has been hard http://t.co/HNQhPURxDX

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

I got a snake massage and now I’m Medusa

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

A profile of American Apparel's new CEO and a meditation on the early 2000s. My Elle story is up. http://t.co/Z14dw9VVJI

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

Forgot to say I saw Grace Coddington walking to work in Uggs this morning!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

My book comes out in exactly one week! Even though we can't come together in the same physical space right now, I'd love for you to help me celebrate the publication of THIS IS BIG and I hope you’ll preorder a copy.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

Me Time is back and getting blissed our at the Drybar of acupuncture:

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

She asked me how old I was and if I was single and said, "Well, what are you waiting for?"

Bonnie Wertheim

@bmwertheim

6 years

“Look, the perfect boy from the top yeshiva and the perfect girl from the best seminary probably don’t need me.” @MarisaMeltzer found a real gem!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

5 years

Listen to Kyle

Kyle Miller

@KyleMillerYoga

5 years

How to embody the seasons: 1. Spring: Plant a seed. 2. Summer: Pop your cork. 3. Fall: Let something go. 4. Winter: Rest. Pictured: popping corks. 😛😛 @ Praiano Costa d'Amalfi

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

I wrote about trying to learn to love my body and how weird and frustrating it is. V. raw!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

If you only read one essay in praise of neanderthal sex today, please let it be mine:

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

1 year

My new book is out September 12th and galleys arrive next week! Would you like a copy to read, cover, or share? DM me. My queen Tina Brown gave it the blurb of my dreams.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

Is death cool? Is it the opposite of wellness or its final frontier? Is minimalism kind of death? Is my mom insane for wanting her corpse fed to animals?

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

The U.K. edition of This Is Big comes out on 4/30! I’m on the cover of @guardianweekend in a dress I purchased to wear to a book party. Very glad I got to put it to good use.

Guardian Saturday

@GdnSaturday

4 years

I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body?

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

Let's discuss the current state of the tomboy http://t.co/LVcJy4OZKu

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

11 years

So far my big takeaway from Graceland is that Elvis was not a fan of natural light http://t.co/eVV5Z9SsBc

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

Celebrities + Feminism = Hmmm http://t.co/kc02IvvzwP

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

13 years

I just want to note that when I took ayahuasca and went inside Beyonce's stomach and met her baby, it was a girl.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

I think I'm glad someone got this http://t.co/002MO2daUE

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

It's hard to be such a visionary

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I visited a HairWitch for a haircut and a healing (and reiki, life advice, and a Stevie Nicks soundtrack)

NYT Styles 💖

@NYTStyles

7 years

This 'witch' casts spells with scissors and sage

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

8 years

I had these exact shoes in high school and am considering buying them again. This is why I shun Marie Kondo.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

The U.K. edition of THIS IS BIG is officially out today! I would love it if you ordered a copy here:

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

Just in case you're wondering what kind of person I am, I just bought a travel watercolor set

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

At some point in this piece you will encounter someone who says, “everyone pore is a sphincter”

NYT Styles 💖

@NYTStyles

7 years

"When I started going gray at 26, I colored my hair. And when fine lines began to collect around and under my eyes at 35, I welcomed Botox into my life." Now, our columnist has moved on to facial acupuncture and massage.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

3 years

A fitting way to kick off fashion week: my cover story for @NYTFashion remembering Grace Mirabella and the magazine “for women who were interested in everything” is out now.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

It was an honor to write about Nancye Radmin, a pioneer of plus-size fashion and the founder of the Forgotten Woman boutique.

Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Size Fashion, Is Dead at 82 (Published 2020)

The Forgotten Woman boutique, which she opened in 1977, spoke directly to the nascent idea of body acceptance. It soon became a chain.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

11 years

Just drank something called Kalefornia. It took 36 years of living for that to happen.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

I think How to Make it in America is more relevant now than ever

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

This Is Big is in good company.

New York Times Books

@nytimesbooks

4 years

10 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times

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Marisa Meltzer

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3 years

Maybe this is the time to let our sartorial lives play out a little.

Do Not Clean Out Your Closet Right Now. Really.

One writer rebels against the age of organizational gurus and methods to keep our closets and our lives tightly edited. Maybe during the pandemic is not the time?

www.wsj.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

I just remembered that I had my tongue pierced from 1995 to like 1998 and cracked myself up

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

Me Time: LA woo-woo edition. Pilates, feminine energy, walking on the beach, feeling feelings

NYT Styles 💖

@NYTStyles

6 years

On a trip to her native California, our wellness columnist visits a Pilates witch and healer for hire.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

6 years

New column! I finally learned how to apply makeup!!

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

This Is Big is officially out in paperback today! Please enjoy this photo of the cover alongside a true Weight Watchers classic: the Frankfurter Spectacular.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

I talked to @manymanywords about This Is Big, which happens to be out tomorrow.

Vox

@voxdotcom

4 years

Weight Watchers — now called WW — might seem outdated in 2020, but its founder knew a thing or two about why people needed to share their stories.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

I hope you’ll join @jillkargman and I tonight to celebrate the release of THIS IS BIG!

Politics and Prose

@PoliticsProse

4 years

Tomorrow, @MarisaMeltzer discusses her funny and unforgettable new book with @jillkargman on P&P Live! THIS IS BIG weaves the story of Jean Nidetch, who founded Weight Watchers in 1963, with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

I just changed clothes in a cab! Definitely living in an eighties movie.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

9 years

I'm the special guest on @callyrgf this week talking about how to seduce people on my roof, Instagram k-holes, etc

Call Your Girlfriend

Listen to Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow's Call Your Girlfriend podcast on Apple Podcasts.

podcasts.apple.com

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

Join me tomorrow to celebrate the release of THIS IS BIG! I’ll be in conversation with @jillkargman as part of @politicsprose ’s P&P Live series.

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

Yes there is a place called Bone Deep & Harmony that sells bone broth and it's in my fridge http://t.co/GX0gyu32Ws

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

Modest fashion might unite us all (or, how I am probably going to start buying dresses made for Orthodox Jews) http://t.co/irxjgjy6Nr

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Marisa Meltzer

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7 years

The sooner I accept that my natural state is being angry about the music in boutique fitness playlists, the sooner I will be happy

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

10 years

I wrote about how I never cry and feminism and my family and science and The Cure http://t.co/tMglpsB4GL

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10 years

"I love Pussy Riot" -my mom

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Marisa Meltzer

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9 years

I had a dream I told Jonathan Franzen a joke about a 10-year-old APC t-shirt (?) and he laughed

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

7 years

RIP to my ex-step-grandfather 🌊Paradise will always be the trampoline room and Kung Fu Master at his place on Pleasure Point.

NYT Obituaries

@NYTObits

7 years

Jack O’Neill, Surfer Who Made the Wetsuit Famous, Dies at 94

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

11 years

The Return of Pubic Hair w/Gwyneth + Cam, Girls, Gustave Courbet, feminism, jokes http://t.co/YBpOszQEdK

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Marisa Meltzer

@MarisaMeltzer

4 years

It was a pleasure to speak with @HerMoneyMedia last week!

HerMoney

@HerMoneyMedia

4 years

On #hermoneypodcast , we have an in-depth conversation with @MarisaMeltzer on how our relationships with food & money are so closely intertwined. And, a bonus convo with @Piper , author of @OITNB , as she helps a listener with a relative headed to prison.

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Marisa Meltzer

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10 years

FYI wearing a lip gloss called "ladyflower" right now

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Marisa Meltzer

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9 years

Liv Tyler is on the cover of MORE. I'm going to need a lot of time to process but I'm here if you need to talk about it.

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