Cindi Leive
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Cynthia Leive is the editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine, which reaches more than 12 million readers each month and outsells more than 98 percent of magazines on the newsstand today, and glamour.com, the leading young women’s magazine site. Leive is also a women’s lifestyle contributor for the Today show and the author of Glamour’s Big Book of Dos & Don’ts: Fashion Help for Every Woman. She serves on the board of directors for the International Women’s Media Foundation and is the president ex-officio of the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Leive’s work has been recognized inside and outside of the media industry. A major force in the business, Leive was named the “Most Powerful U.S. Fashion Magazine Editor” by Forbes. In 2008 she received a White House Project EPIC Award for publishing In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl. In 2006 she received a Matrix Award from Women in Communications; a Champion of Choice Award from NARAL-NY for her continued coverage of women’s health; and, along with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gloria Steinem, a Lead Her Award from Girls Learn International for her activism in bringing Pakistani heroine Mukhtar Mai to the United States for the first time.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Leive began her career in publishing at The Paris Review and The Saturday Review. Prior to joining Glamour in May 2001, Leive served as editor-in-chief of Self magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, film producer Howard Bernstein, daughter Lucy and son Isaac.

Blog Entries by Cindi Leive

Glamour's 'Tell Somebody' Campaign: It's Time to Put a Stop to Relationship Violence

Posted May 3, 2011 | 09:54:00 (EST)

There are a lot of things I'm proud of in the upcoming June issue of Glamour, but there's one I want to tell you about now -- a report that opened my eyes, pissed me off, but then gave me hope. I believe it will do the same for you....

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Yoo-Hoo! Here's One Recipe Every Woman Should Know

Posted April 6, 2011 | 11:10:21 (EST)

This week marks the official publication of Glamour magazine's first cookbook in 23 years, and I for one, am glad for womankind--because now every female in the universe can have the same secret weapon in her arsenal that I do. No, not Engagement Chicken, the cookbook's most famous...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: The 5 Things Every Woman Should Know About Sleep

Posted February 4, 2010 | 15:57:00 (EST)

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This is it, the last post of Sleep Challenge 2010, my joint project with comrade-in-PJs Arianna Huffington to urge American women to stop walking around sleep-deprived and be good to themselves for once. So, what have I learned, other...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Man, They Sell Some Weird Stuff To Make You Sleep Better -- But Does Any Of It Work?

Posted February 2, 2010 | 17:37:00 (EST)

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Among the 972 weird things about sleep I didn't know until Arianna Huffington and I started the Sleep Challenge: There is a toothpaste that supposedly makes you sleep better. Also, sunglasses, smoothies, body patches, special sheets and even...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: What Did You Wear To Bed Last Night?

Posted January 28, 2010 | 16:31:24 (EST)

Now that I'm doing the Sleep Challenge with Arianna Huffington -- our joint attempt to encourage women across America to reform their sleep-deprived ways -- I'm trying to force myself to go to bed even when I don't want to. And I think I have the secret....

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Sleep Challenge 2010: The Most Embarrassing Place I've Fallen Asleep Was ________ .

Posted January 25, 2010 | 08:54:23 (EST)

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It's three weeks into the Sleep Challenge Arianna Huffington and I are doing to encourage women to stop cheating themselves of zzzs, and I gotta tell you, I'm into it. I'm waking up without an alarm clock, I've...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Meet the "Vampire Hormone" (Yes, You Have It)

Posted January 21, 2010 | 08:14:54 (EST)

2010-01-07-Cindi250.jpgJust one of the startling things I’ve learned over the last two weeks of the Sleep Challenge is that apparently, when it comes to good health, what you do in the hour right before you go to bed really matters. So:...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: OK, Ladies, It's Time to Make a To-Don't List

Posted January 19, 2010 | 17:09:35 (EST)

2010-01-07-Cindi250.jpgTwo weeks into the Sleep Challenge Arianna Huffington and I are doing, I’ve heard from hundreds of you here and on HuffingtonPost.com about how you’re hitting the hay just a little bit earlier—some of you for the first...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: What Do You Wake up Thinking About at Three in the Morning?

Posted January 14, 2010 | 14:33:05 (EST)

2010-01-07-Cindi250.jpgOh, dear. Only ten days into the sleep challenge and both Arianna and I are off the wagon. (And we have to go defend ourselves on Joy Behar’s show tonight at 9). The glamorous Arianna had her relapse because of...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: How Late Did You Sleep In This Weekend?

Posted January 11, 2010 | 08:06:10 (EST)

2010-01-07-Cindi250.jpgGood morning, folks, and welcome to the start of Week 2 of the Sleep Challenge 2010--Arianna Huffington's and my crusade to encourage women to give themselves a break and actually get enough sleep for once. And major high fives to...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Three Tiny Things About Sleep I Wish I Had Known Years Ago

Posted January 7, 2010 | 17:00:21 (EST)

2010-01-07-Cindi250.jpgIt's four days into Sleep Challenge 2010 -- the experiment Arianna Huffington and I kicked off to try to encourage American women to get more rest. So how's this American woman doing? Well, I've gotten seven-and-a-half hours every evening this...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Women, It's Time to Sleep Our Way to the Top. Literally.

Posted January 4, 2010 | 00:01:33 (EST)

As women, we make a lot of New Year's resolutions -- "lose 10 pounds" and "finally write that novel" and "lose 10 pounds -- seriously." But this year, the two of us (that's HuffPost's Arianna Huffington and Glamour's Cindi Leive) are suggesting you make a New...

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