About This Author
Magali Amadei and Claire Mysko are the creators of
5 Resolutions to Transform the Fashion and Beauty Industries and the co-founders of
Inside Beauty, an outreach program designed to give girls and women a healthy fashion and beauty reality check. Their book,
Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby, will be published by HCI Books in 2009.
Magali Amadei has appeared on the pages and covers of virtually every fashion magazine in the world, including Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar. As a result of her own battle with and victory over bulimia, she became the world's first top female model to step forward and tell her story on behalf of an eating disorders organization.
Claire Mysko is a writer, media consultant, and an expert on girls' and women's issues. She has served as the director of the American Anorexia Bulimia Association, the Executive Editor of SmartGirl, and the Assistant Director of Communications at Girls Inc., the organization that inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. She has an MA in Gender Studies from The New School for Social Research. Her book for girls,
Girls Inc. Presents: You're Amazing!: A No-Pressure Guide to Being Your Best Self, is now available.