Mimi Spencer

For more than 20 years, Mimi Spencer has written features for national newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Observer, The Times, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. As the Fashion Editor of the London Evening Standard, she won the british Fashion Journalist of the Year Award in 2000, and went on to edit the paper’s weekly title, ES Magazine. 

Mimi has had a column in You Magazine at the Mail on Sunday for over a decade. In 2009, drawing on her personal and career interest in women’s attitudes to weight loss, she wrote 101 Things To Do Before You Diet (Doubleday/Rodale).

Today, she writes regularly on women’s issues and lifestyle for the Saturday Times, Marie Claire, Red and other magazines. She lives in Brighton on the south coast of England with her husband, two children, a small boat and an endlessly hungry dog.