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How have you been doing?? I know I've been MIA. Two reasons: 1-- I got diagnosed with Lyme disease so I've been feeling really wiped out and under the weather (straight to bed after work every day!). 2-- Since you started school, I figured you wouldn't even notice if I laid low. It's amazing how a little tick (I probably got a tick bite in the Hamptons early this summer) can totally take you down. Tick -- 1; Atoosa -- 0!
Things at Seventeen have been really great. We started a cool partnership with Top Model; we helped launch an internet safety program with Myspace (as you know, a very important topic); we're the only teen magazine in the country to be growing (everyone else is selling less issues than last year or they're out of business); and we just -- thanks to you -- raised over $20,000 for breast cancer research with a celebrity hand bag auction. This is all good, right?
Yet people on blogs (nameless, faceless people of course) are so nasty about me. Something that ran today on Gawker made me want to reach out to you. I often tell you hang on -- that high school is this weird time when people are immature and that when you get into the "real world" you can just focus on being yourself without worrying about the petty high school crap. And then something like this gets printed:
From our venerable mailbag, a late-breaking development in the whirlwind career of Seventeen editor and self-promoting working girl Atoosa Rubenstein:
To: Gawker From: Disgusted Tipster Subj: Orchids don't have hairy arms
Just finished watching America's Next Top Model with none other than their special guest star Atoosa Rubenstein. Could one of you please investigate her grotesque forearms post-haste? Looks like The 'Toos has serious issues with some thick, black arm hair. Mind you, we all have hair on our arms -I personally wax mine - but isn't she the editor of a beauty magazine? And, furthermore, she was a judge on a modeling show. This was actual man hair. I regretted for a moment having HD tv... It was really gross.
Sympathetic nods to Rubenstein's ethnicity aside -- does anyone have a picture of this? We stopped watching Top Model after Eva Pigford won and started whoring around with Missy Elliot (for some reason, that destroyed the purity of the competition for us), so we've no visual evidence or DVR material for investigating the above claim. If you have any photos or even first-hand accounts of Rubenstein's body hair, do drop us a line. Go ahead, send us anything. When looking to support or refute claims of forearm shrubbery, our bar for evidence is remarkably low.
I won't lie and say this silly stuff doesn't bother me, but after about a minute I remember my dedication to our mission and I stay focused on that. But it DOES make me feel badly for the people who feel compelled to say this kind of thing about someone they don't know. It must be lonely to be an anonymous, bitter person who comes out from under a rock every so often to throw rocks at people who are legitimately out there, working hard and getting results. Believe me, the rocks may sometimes annoy me but imagine how much it sucks to be on the other side??
I wish instead of creating an outlet for their anonymous bitterness, someone would create an outlet to help them HEAL because who would choose to be this way if they could? Maybe one of you will do that -- or maybe one of us. I feel very blessed to use my microphone to spread good energy. This is a reminder though that instead of always working my butt off, I should make time to get my arms waxed! The truth is, I let it slip. Haha.
As always, thanks for being there and being you. Without you, there wouldn't be us :)
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