Nadine Haobsh
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Nadine Jolie, born Nadine Freedon Haobsh, is an American novelist, blogger and beauty journalist. She maintains a blog, "Nadine Jolie" http://www.nadinejolie.com, which has received international press, and is the author of Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your Best
and Confessions of a Beauty Addict. Nadine, a former beauty editor, was named by the New York Post
as 'the poster girl for the blogger generation" after being Dooced. She was born in New York City in 1980 and spent her childhood in San Diego, Dallas and Atlanta.
in Alpharetta, Georgia
, Jolie graduated in 1998 from Cate School
in Carpinteria, California
, and enrolled at Barnard College
of Columbia University
in New York City, working as beauty and fashion assistant at FHM Magazine
and interning for InStyle Magazine, Harper's Bazaar
and CNN
. While at Columbia, Jolie studied in Paris and pledged the Delta Gamma Fraternity
sorority, accepting a Beauty Assistant job with Lucky Magazine
after graduating in 2002. In 2003, she accepted a job at Ladies' Home Journal
as assistant beauty editor and was promoted to Associate Beauty Editor.
as Beauty Editor was simultaneously rescinded, her story received international coverage. After Regis Philbin
stumbled over the pronunciation of her name on Live! With Regis and Kelly
, Jolie appeared on Anderson Cooper
, MSNBC
, ABC
, Fox
and CNN
and was profiled by the New York Times
, People Magazine, The Guardian
, Cosmopolitan magazine, Women's Wear Daily
, Fashion Week Daily', and Time. She was subsequently spotted on the town in 2005 with Entourage
star Adrian Grenier
.
and in 2006 briefly assisted Sarah, Duchess of York
. She has blogged for Vanity Fair
, Jane Magazine, the Huffington Post, Jaunted and MTV.
Under the last name Haobsh, Jolie is the author of the bestselling beauty guide Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your Best
; her first novel Confessions of a Beauty Addict, was published in January 2009. She visits colleges nationwide speaking about beauty, appeared in a series of English TV programs on iTV
as an expert discussing the beauty and fashion choices of Nicole Kidman
, Victoria Beckham
, Julia Roberts
, Catherine Zeta-Jones
and Kate Moss
, appeared as an on-air beauty expert in commercials for Bare Minerals and In An Instant, has been featured on the Today show discussing beauty trends, and has contributed to C Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Japan and Figaro Japan.
Jolie currently lives in Los Angeles, works as a beauty and marketing consultant and contributes to Vanity Fair
online and AOL
.
Beauty Confidential
Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best is a 2007 beauty guide by American author Nadine Haobsh....
and Confessions of a Beauty Addict. Nadine, a former beauty editor, was named by the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
as 'the poster girl for the blogger generation" after being Dooced. She was born in New York City in 1980 and spent her childhood in San Diego, Dallas and Atlanta.
Collegiate Life and Early career
After attending Milton High SchoolMilton High School (Milton, Georgia)
Milton High School is a high school in Milton, northeast Fulton County, Georgia, United States.-History:Milton High School was founded in the shadows of metropolitan Atlanta within the city of Alpharetta, Georgia - a few blocks away from Main Street, USA. When Principal W. T...
in Alpharetta, Georgia
Alpharetta, Georgia
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 34,854 people, 13,911 households, and 8,916 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,631.6 people per square mile . There were 14,670 housing units at an average density of 686.7 per square mile...
, Jolie graduated in 1998 from Cate School
Cate School
The Cate School, established in 1910 by Curtis Wolsey Cate, is a four-year, coeducational, college-preparatory boarding school in Carpinteria, California, United States....
in Carpinteria, California
Carpinteria, California
Carpinteria is a small oceanside city located in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California, east of Santa Barbara and northwest of Ventura. The population was 13,040 at the 2010 census, down from 14,194 at the 2000 census....
, and enrolled at Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York City, working as beauty and fashion assistant at FHM Magazine
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
and interning for InStyle Magazine, Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
and CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
. While at Columbia, Jolie studied in Paris and pledged the Delta Gamma Fraternity
Delta Gamma
Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...
sorority, accepting a Beauty Assistant job with Lucky Magazine
Lucky (magazine)
Lucky is a shopping and style magazine which calls itself the " Ultimate Shopping Guide " and " The Magazine About Shopping ." Lucky "showcases what to wear and how to wear it, making fashion and beauty fun and accessible." Available by subscription, issues are published once a month and offer...
after graduating in 2002. In 2003, she accepted a job at Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine which first appeared on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States...
as assistant beauty editor and was promoted to Associate Beauty Editor.
Controversy
In May 2005, following the creation of the now defunct Nick and Jessica Breakup Watch blog, Nadine began blogging under the pseudonym Jolie in NYC http://www.jolienyc.com, where she dispersed beauty advice and celebrity gossip. Her identity was revealed by the New York Post in July 2005, and after an offer at Seventeen magazineSeventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
as Beauty Editor was simultaneously rescinded, her story received international coverage. After Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...
stumbled over the pronunciation of her name on Live! With Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
, Jolie appeared on Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
and CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
and was profiled by the New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, People Magazine, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Cosmopolitan magazine, Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion." WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers,...
, Fashion Week Daily', and Time. She was subsequently spotted on the town in 2005 with Entourage
Entourage (TV series)
Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
star Adrian Grenier
Adrian Grenier
Adrian Grenier is an American actor, musician and director. He is best known for his lead role on the HBO original series, Entourage, as Vincent Chase.-Early life:...
.
Present day
From 2005 – 2007, Nadine worked as a business consultant to legendary polo player Carlos GracidaCarlos Gracida
Carlos Gracida, is a polo player, considered by many to be a living legend, and one of the few who has been ranked at a 10-goal handicap, which he reached at the age of twenty-five.- Biography :...
and in 2006 briefly assisted Sarah, Duchess of York
Sarah, Duchess of York
Sarah, Duchess of York is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and former member of the British Royal Family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, whom she married from 1986 to 1996...
. She has blogged for Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, Jane Magazine, the Huffington Post, Jaunted and MTV.
Under the last name Haobsh, Jolie is the author of the bestselling beauty guide Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your Best
Beauty Confidential
Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best is a 2007 beauty guide by American author Nadine Haobsh....
; her first novel Confessions of a Beauty Addict, was published in January 2009. She visits colleges nationwide speaking about beauty, appeared in a series of English TV programs on iTV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
as an expert discussing the beauty and fashion choices of Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
, Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
, Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, is a British actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of...
and Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Kate Moss is an English model. Moss is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Moss changed the look of modelling and started a global debate on...
, appeared as an on-air beauty expert in commercials for Bare Minerals and In An Instant, has been featured on the Today show discussing beauty trends, and has contributed to C Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Japan and Figaro Japan.
Jolie currently lives in Los Angeles, works as a beauty and marketing consultant and contributes to Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
online and AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
.
Books
- Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your BestBeauty ConfidentialBeauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use Guide to Looking Your Best is a 2007 beauty guide by American author Nadine Haobsh....
. Avon A (2007). Paperback: ISBN 0061128635, ISBN 978-0061128639. - Confessions of a Beauty Addict. Avon A (2009). Paperback: ISBN 0061128627, ASIN: B003A02X5M.