{{Short description|American journalist and author}} {{notability|bio|date=June 2020}}
'''Mimi Spencer''' is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for such titles as the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Evening Standard'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-7692010-model-mother.do|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917133146/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-7692010-model-mother.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 17, 2012|title=Model Mother|publisher=the Evening Standard|access-date=5 December 2011|date=2003-11-14}}</ref> ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/author/mimi_spencer/profile.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327212842/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/author/mimi_spencer/profile.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 27, 2008|title=the Guardian - Profile|publisher=the Guardian|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=19 August 2008|location=London}}</ref> ''The Spectator'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/scoff/articles/3487501/how-to-trick-kids-into-eating-vegetables.thtml|title=How to... trick kids into eating vegetables|publisher=the Spectator|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=2009-03-28}}</ref> ''Marie Claire'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion/527006/free-limited-edition-marie-claire-in-this-saturday-s-times.html |title=Free Limited Edition of Marie Claire in this Saturday's Times|publisher=Marie Claire|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=27 May 2011}}</ref> ''Harper's Bazaar'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/clients/Client-664.htm|title=David Hingham - Profile|publisher=David Hingham|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref> and ''Observer Food Monthly''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features11|title=Let Them Eat Cake|publisher=the Observer|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=7 November 2004|location=London|first=Mimi|last=Spencer}}</ref>
Spencer is the author of ''101 Things To Do Before You Diet''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://authorsplace.co.uk/mimi-spencer/bibliography/|title=Authors Place - Profile|publisher=authrosplace.co.uk|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorid=62490|title=Transworld Published Titles|publisher=Transworld|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref> and ''The Fast Diet'' with Michael Mosley.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
==Career==
Spencer began her career with ''Vogue'' magazine<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/issue/1993/July/Page/2|title=Vogue Magazine Archive|publisher=Vogue|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=June 1993}}</ref> followed by two years editing ''ES Magazine''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://campaignlive.co.uk/news/141017/MEDIA-BRIEFS-Staff-changes-Londons-Evening-Standard/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH|title=MEDIA BRIEFS: Staff changes at London's Evening Standard|publisher=Campaign|access-date=5 December 2011 | date=29 March 2002}}</ref> and won Fashion Journalist of the year whilst working as Fashion Editor at the ''Evening Standard'' in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishfashioncouncil.com/file_download.aspx?id=6354|title=British Fashion Awards 2000|publisher=British Fashion Council|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref> She writes a weekly column for ''The Mail on Sunday'''s ''You Magazine''.
She also runs a Q&A Network, Wonderstuff, which she set up in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wonderstuff.co.uk/experts|title=Contributors|publisher=wonderstuff.com|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Spencer lives in Brighton with her husband, Paul Bowen, a human rights barrister, and has two children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mimispencer.com/|title=Mimi Spencer Bio|publisher=mimispencer.com|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/mimi-spencer|title=Random House Bio|publisher=Random House|access-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref>
==Published works== *''101 Things to do Before You Diet'' (Transworld, 2009)
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==External links== * [http://www.mimispencer.com/ Official website] * {{Twitter}}
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