I GOT MY JOB…

After a degree in broadcast journalism. I did a year of work experience at various magazines and said yes to everything – from transporting a colleague’s false tooth across London to asking Jimmy Carr how he preferred women’s pubic hair (pre-feminism, apparently). I got my first job on the features desk at Eve and three years later got the call from Stylist.

MY TYPICAL DAY…

Starts at 9.05am at my desk in my garden office. Meal times are less structured, more a constant stream of carb-based snacks. My day depends on deadlines but typically I’ll be brainstorming new concept covers, researching stories about the rise of cleaning influencers or our relationship with food, and interviewing experts all over the world about female behaviour and trends. From 3pm to 7pm I’m ‘mum’ again, a role I’m just as proud of. For too long we’ve been encouraged to hide that part of ourselves at work – as though having a family labelled you less competent – and though that attitude still lingers, it’s shifting.

A day in the life of Stylist’s editor-at-large