Marisa Meltzer

Growing up, Meltzer accompanied her mother to protests against the Miss California pageant and to Gloria Steinem lectures, but her mother was careful to stay thin. She attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.{{cite news |last1=Meltzer |first1=Marisa |title=Does Wanting to Be Thin Make You a Slave to the Man? |url=https://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/advice/a13947/are-diets-the-enemy-of-feminism/ |access-date=30 August 2024 |publisher=Elle |date=December 19, 2013}}

Meltzer's wellness column for the New York Times was called "Me Time". Her third book, This is Big, tells the story of the founder of Weight Watchers, Jean Nidetch, while incorporating anecdotes from her own weight-loss journey.{{cite news |title=Marisa Meltzer Wanted to Diet. The Founder of Weight Watchers Didn’t Have All the Answers.|last=Moroz|first=Sarah|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/marisa-meltzer-wanted-to-diet-the-founder-of-weight-watchers-didnt-have-all-the-answers?ref=home/Marisa |access-date=28 August 2024 |publisher=Daily Beast |date=April 11, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Florsheim |first1=Lane |title=A Dieter’s Relationship to Food—When the Fridge Is Always Right There |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-dieters-relationship-to-foodwhen-the-fridge-is-always-right-there-11586868553 |access-date=28 August 2024 |publisher=Wall Street Journal |date=April 14, 2020}}

Her New York Times bestseller Glossy, which is being adapted for TV,{{cite news |last1=Cordero |first1=Rosy |title=Amazon MGM Studios Is Adapting Marisa Meltzer’s New York Times Bestseller ‘Glossy’ For TV |url=https://deadline.com/2023/10/amazon-mgm-studios-glossy-tv-1235581058/ |access-date=27 August 2024 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |date=October 23, 2023}} was inspired by Meltzer's Vanity Fair profile of Emily Weiss. Meltzer was interested in the power that beauty advertisers have, the girl-boss movement, venture capital, and the changing beauty standards in contemporary culture.{{cite news |last1=Specter |first1=Emma |title=Marisa Meltzer’s New Book, Glossy, Is the Juicy (But Fair) Deep Dive That the Glossier Empire Deserves |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/marisa-meltzer-glossy-book-interview |access-date=27 August 2024 |publisher=Vogue |date=September 13, 2023}}

• How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time (2007, with Kara Jesella) {{ISBN|978-0-571-21185-2}}Review of 'Sassy':* [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780571211852 How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time] - Publishers Weekly
• Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (2010) {{ISBN|978-0865479791}}
• This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me (2020) {{ISBN|978-0316414005}}Review of 'This is Big':* [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316414005 This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World—and Me] - Publishers Weekly
• Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier (2023) {{ISBN|978-1982190606}}Reviews of Glossy:
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/06/glossy-glossier-marisa-meltzer-emily-weiss-review/ Glossier tried to be more than a brand by posing as a friend] - Washington Post
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/books/review/glossy-marisa-meltzer.html A Dishy Tell-All About Emily Weiss’s Glossier] - New York Times
• [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gaslight-gatekeep-glossier-on-marisa-meltzers-glossy/ Gaslight, Gatekeep, Glossier: On Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy”] - Los Angeles Review of Books

Meltzer lives in Brooklyn.{{cite news |last1=Garcia-Navarro |first1=Lulu |title=In 'This Is Big,' Author Chronicles Her Weight Loss, Story Of Weight Watchers Founder |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/04/19/838073201/in-this-is-big-author-chronicles-her-weight-loss-explores-story-of-weight-watche |access-date=28 August 2024 |publisher=NPR |date=April 19, 2020}} She finds comfort from baths, massages, alone time, and Nespresso.{{cite news |title=Author Marisa Meltzer, Whose New Book Investigates Glossier, Reveals Her Own Wellness Rituals |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/11/marisa-meltzer-glossier-book-glossy |access-date=27 August 2024 |publisher=Cultured Magazine |date=September 11, 2023}}

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• {{Official website|https://www.marisameltzer.com}}
• [https://www.nytimes.com/column/me-time New York Times column]

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