Mia Freedman
Mia Freedman began her career doing work experience at Cleo back when work experience girls didn’t expect to be choosing the cover. Five years later she became the editor of Cosmopolitan and had work experience girls of her own. She treated them well except for the time she asked one of them to go out and buy a banana for her son.
Mia edited Cosmo for 100 issues during which time her proudest achievements were publishing images of women of all shapes and sizes as well as a series of photographs of Brad Pitt naked. Both of these things made her extremely happy.
After a blink-and-you-missed-it stint as a TV exec, she launched her own website, Mamamia.com.au, which is a cross between a magazine and a conversation.
She is a columnist, writer and the chair of the National Body Image Advisory Group. Her second book, Mamama: A Memoir Of Mistakes, Magazines & Motherhood is coming out in September.
Articles by Mia Freedman
This is an excellent piece of Michael Jackson propaganda
I felt nothing when Michael Jackson died. It’s not like I didn’t try to summon a tear but in the…... Read more
Eleven things no one told me about being a parent
Yeah, I knew that breast feeding might be tough. I read that I might get post-natal depression. I knew not…... Read more
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Would you kill for a job?
Who would work in an abattoir? Most of us have done jobs we didn’t want to do because we needed…
Friday Dilemma: child cruelty or harmless fun?
Parenting. It’s the new oneupmanship. Ah, how quaint the days now seem when parents could raise…
Hipsters with hip replacements
Someone once told me that when people reach a certain age they begin dressing in the manner they did…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
