Nadine Haobsh
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Nadine Haobsh is an American novelist, blogger and beauty journalist. She maintains a blog, "Jolie Nadine" [1], which has received international press. Nadine, a former beauty editor, was named by the New York Post as 'the poster girl for the blogger generation" after being Dooced. Haobsh was born in New York City in 1980. She spent her childhood in San Diego, Dallas and Atlanta.
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[edit] Collegiate Life and Early Career
After attending Milton High School in Alpharetta, Georgia, Haobsh 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 and interning for InStyle, Harper's Bazaar and CNN. While at Columbia, Haobsh studied in Paris and pledged the Delta Gamma 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.
[edit] 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 [2], where she dispersed beauty advice and celebrity gossip. Her identity was revealed by the New York Post in July of 2005, and after an offer at Seventeen magazine as Beauty Editor was simultaneously rescinded, her story received international coverage.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, Haobsh appeared on Anderson Cooper [3], MSNBC [4], ABC, Fox and CNN [5] [6] and was profiled by the New York Times [7][8], People Magazine, The Guardian[9], Cosmopolitan magazine [10], Women's Wear Daily, Fashion Week Daily [11], and Time [12]. She was subsequently spotted on the town in 2005 with Entourage star Adrian Grenier [13].
[edit] Present Day
From 2005 - 2007, Haobsh worked as a business consultant to legendary polo player Carlos Gracida and in 2006 briefly assisted Sarah, Duchess of York. She has blogged for Jane Magazine, the Huffington Post and MTV. Haobsh's first book, a beauty guide titled Beauty Confidential: The No Preaching, No Lies, Advice-You'll-Actually-Use-Guide to Looking Your Best [14] was released October 30, 2007; her first novel Confessions of a Beauty Addict, will be published November 2008. 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, and contributes to Harper's Bazaar Japan and Figaro Japan. Haobsh currently lives in Los Angeles.
