From free samples to fad diets, the strange realities of working behind the scenes in wellness media.
∙ Paid
Movies taught me that working at a magazine was the most glamorous profession imaginable: closets full of free clothes, coworkers gossiping over lunchtime martinis, and glamorous city lives funded somehow entirely by writing a few hundred words about eyeliner or dating.
The actual writing itself always seemed secondary. This wasn’t hard work. This was th…
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