You, the 41 souls who clicked around this derelict blog since midnight yesterday, are the few, the proud, the hard core, the truly special, the early adopters, the late abandoners, and I salute you. Except you, dude who found me after Googling “Pose foto lingerie.” He can take his foto and phuck off.
In other words: I’m back.
69 responses so far ↓
fashionwhore // July 21, 2009 at 10:44 am |
Welcome back Jenna. I always thought it was you!
Kit // July 21, 2009 at 10:56 am |
Good for you. I’ve been enjoying your work on Jezebel and your most recent post on J’Bel is…for lack of a better description, all encompassing and beautiful. I look forward to reading more.
Jason // July 21, 2009 at 11:03 am |
Make it 43. Great post on Jez, BTW. You’re a helluva writer.
Jason // July 21, 2009 at 11:03 am |
Er, 44. Can’t count. History major. :)
Bryanboy // July 21, 2009 at 11:13 am |
Congrats Jenna for coming out! Looking forward to more entries from you :-)
Jessa // July 21, 2009 at 11:17 am |
I knew it. now i feel rewarded.
Joan // July 21, 2009 at 11:17 am |
Hi! Welcome back! I found you via Jezebel, where I’ve always enjoyed reading your anon posts. I noticed in one of the pictures posted below that you are knitting? I love to knit and I’d love to hear what you were making backstage at the shows..
Cristi // July 21, 2009 at 11:26 am |
I wish I was as talented as you… and could travel around the world with modeling. I’ve already tried =/
I love your blog though pretty thang!
gemfit // July 21, 2009 at 11:27 am |
Adding my name to the list of souls who love your writing on Jezebel.
:)
ellaella // July 21, 2009 at 11:32 am |
Best of luck, Jenna. I love your work so much from Jezebel I’m sticking you in my blogroll where you’ll be surrounded by other smart and talented people.
Robb // July 21, 2009 at 11:40 am |
I just read your big reveal on Jezebel… wow, what an incredible look into the life of a model… a career which, from the outside, looks so glamorous, really isn’t all that irl.
I plan on following this blog, I’m anxious to read what you have to say about life in general. =]
Laurie // July 21, 2009 at 11:50 am |
Wow, you are quite a find. What a writer! What a mind! Will come back here often.
Lucy // July 21, 2009 at 12:10 pm |
This has been a great story to follow – thanks for revealing your identity. I look forward to reading more from you!
The Planner // July 21, 2009 at 12:25 pm |
Excellent post on Jezebel. I’d always loved your writings on fashion and I look forward to reading more. Brava.
Emily // July 21, 2009 at 12:27 pm |
I’ve really enjoyed following you on Jezebel. You’re writing is fantastic! Wise career move. Modeling seems like hell!
Maggie ~ The Freckled Citizen // July 21, 2009 at 12:31 pm |
Hugely crushing on this blog today, just FYI.
Katherine // July 21, 2009 at 12:38 pm |
I’ve been enjoying your posts on Jezebel for awhile, and am so excited you’ve shared a (second?) resource. I’m a teensy more excited than I should be. So hello from cubicleland, it’s nice to “meet” you. :)
Shelley // July 21, 2009 at 12:47 pm |
I loved your writing on Jezebel, I loved your stories here, and I am waiting for your book(s)!
Good luck!
Kate // July 21, 2009 at 12:48 pm |
I’m looking forward to reading more of your words after reading your latest piece on Jezebel (:
mlee // July 21, 2009 at 1:29 pm |
I had bookmarked your blog ages ago (I don’t remember where I found a link) and subsequently read Jezebel daily. I read that this blog might very well be authored by Tatianna! I just saw the photoshoot and am so getting those bangs from your last photo. So much for growing them out.
jaime // July 21, 2009 at 1:31 pm |
i WILL take my foto, phank you very much.
xo
Iheartfashion // July 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm |
Have enjoyed your Tatiana posts on Jezebel and look forward to more. Best of luck in your new venture!
gregg // July 21, 2009 at 2:07 pm |
love your writing and am looking forward to more of it, bravo for the open honest inside look.
if you want a hand getting this site off the wordpress domain please feel free to contact.
best of luck
Layne // July 21, 2009 at 2:41 pm |
Hey Jenna – never thought I’d see a former DIer as a model! Let alone find out about you on Jez. It’s been lovely reading your writing again.
Melinda // July 21, 2009 at 2:52 pm |
Hey Jenna,
Great to have you back online and out of the closet. I hope that now you’re a famous writer on the intertubes you’ll still have time for the odd story for us back in NZ.
x Melinda
PS. As soon as I got that first story through, I knew you were Tatiana, but it was fun playing along.
uccellina // July 21, 2009 at 2:57 pm |
Woot! I’ve enjoyed reading you on Jezebel, and I’ll be following this blog now.
R. M. Fakename // July 21, 2009 at 3:08 pm |
Would you please clue me in to the East Village deli w/ the secret goat tacos?
anna // July 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm |
Hey, welcome back. A model blogger, now that’s something I’ve never heard of before! its nice to hear that models arent all the mindless airheads the media make them out to be. peace. x
missvolare // July 21, 2009 at 4:35 pm |
Huzzah, and a Nicely Done! I like the short hair on you –you can stop shaving too if you want!
Agnes B // July 21, 2009 at 4:56 pm |
OMG! I have always LOVED you and what you write on JZB. You are a true inspiration. I am in total chock (in a good way) that you “came out”. You are wonderful!
muse // July 21, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
Jenna –
Keep writing the blog, but, don’t forget the fucking book! Your outing was amazing. I believe you have enough adventures to fill a 400 page novel darling…
xo
PhotogWhoUsedtoWrite // July 21, 2009 at 6:03 pm |
You are a hell of a writer, the photog was right.
Trulymadlyme // July 21, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
Awesome. I was a huge fan of your writing. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
K @ Blog Goggles // July 21, 2009 at 7:52 pm |
It was great waking up to find out who you are! Definitely a nice Wednesday surprise, especially since that silly eclipse proved disappointing.
Love your writing and can’t wait for more!
kirsten // July 21, 2009 at 8:46 pm |
aaaah i’m so happy. love your blog as well as the stuff you’ve done on jezebel (not necessarily in that order).
anyway i hope it’s okay with you but i did a small post about you on my blog and i’m hoping it’s alright if i used a picture from this site. please let me know if i need to cite the photographer or take it down for any reason.
thank you!!
xkirsten
Deborah // July 21, 2009 at 10:14 pm |
Jenna: You are a fantastic writer. Looking forward to reading more!
emily // July 21, 2009 at 10:23 pm |
awesome. i’m so happy to now know your true identity while reading jezebel posts, and to be able to read this blog is even better. amazing talent. x
Bri (sukie in the graveyard) // July 21, 2009 at 10:55 pm |
All I can say is
Book.Marked.
I am so happy to know that this, is you. :)
(and apparently, I am not alone) haha
Erin // July 22, 2009 at 1:20 am |
Heh, I wondered if that was you. Good job.
Kendall // July 22, 2009 at 2:15 am |
Jenna such an amazing article well done! how do i see your older stuff you have written for jezebel??
Marlboro Martini // July 22, 2009 at 2:53 am |
Loved the work you have been doing on Jezebel for such a long time ESPECIALLY the Karen Mulder story ( I remember watching ma doc which revealed pretty much the same thing)!
Funnily enough I have a very good friend who used to model however decided to stop after her booker told her to lose some weight – she was already a US size 2 and verging on 6foot- and she should observe how the other girls do it, they were eating (and throwing up) a single orange a day- I think that was the clincher.
Anywhoo, well done your writing is great and I’m not just saying that. Also stop by my blog from to time…
I shall leave before this turns into an essay.
MM x x
Sheema // July 22, 2009 at 3:20 am |
Loved your post on Jezebel, I look forward to reading your blog!
miriam // July 22, 2009 at 6:58 am |
I really love everything you wrote on Jezebel and am delighted at the chance to read more of you.
Yao // July 22, 2009 at 7:03 am |
Dear Jenna,
I’ve always loved your posts on Jezebel as Tatiana, and I’m so glad that you decided to de-anon yourself, if only for the fact that it led me here. I am now happily reliving my years in San Francisco and in the Mission via your old posts.
Thank you. :)
Liberty London Girl // July 22, 2009 at 8:04 am |
I do hope you start up this blog again. The corner of the internets occupied by people who can write, and who know of what they speak is very very small.
Your Jezebel posts were great journalism. I’ve been happily sending people to the posts through my Twitter feed & blog and hope I can send them here now. LLGxx
Sophie Ward // July 22, 2009 at 8:54 am |
Hey Jenna,
Kudos to you!
I loved your I Am the Anonymous Model piece on Jezebel. So nice to put a face to a name. If you’re ever in NYC again, please get in contact, I’d love to hang out and talk intelligentzia.
Vive the written word!
–Sophie
Meg Clark // July 22, 2009 at 12:16 pm |
Just another love note from another Jezebel reader who is thrilled to know you’ll be writing more there or here or wherever.
Mimi // July 22, 2009 at 12:27 pm |
Yes, yet another fan here by way of your Jezebel revelation. Excited to teach some of your posts in my politics of fashion course this fall (notably, the one about “fakes” and morality) and to read what else you might write in the future!
Andrew // July 23, 2009 at 1:46 am |
I kinda fell in love with you a bit while reading your “I Am The Anonymous Model” post at jezebel. thanks.
eleanorstrousers // July 23, 2009 at 9:07 am |
Hooray! Hoping there will be lots of interesting stories to tell now that you’re on this new adventure. I’ve enjoyed you on Jezebel and can’t wait to hear more.
ashley // July 23, 2009 at 3:42 pm |
can’t wait for me here and at jez
Liz // July 23, 2009 at 7:55 pm |
I found this link through Marginal Revolution, and am sure glad I did!
Eli // July 24, 2009 at 12:02 am |
Good on you. I escaped the film business and lived. The feeling that the phone should be ringing doesn’t really ever leave, but if you let the battery run flat it’s less of a dilemma.
cassava // July 24, 2009 at 2:26 am |
I guess that it was proven that there isn’t “an awful lot of models who are smart and good-enough writers to do what the Jezebel blogger does, and plenty who are also low enough on the fashion food chain for their on-the-side efforts to go unnoticed.”
Congrats on all future endeavors!
kathleen // July 25, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
Late to the party, I didn’t start reading you until recently. Not everyone in fashion does the popular culture thing and reads Jezebel. I work in the production side of the industry and blog about that. One of my visitors sent me a post you wrote about product development costs in plus sizes to which -being a topic near and dear to my heart and moreover, something I know quite a bit about- I had substantive disagreements with. I’ve yet to complete my response; edits are difficult with spittle on the monitor. Still, it was apparent to me, that unlike Any Other Blogger, you actually know something about the inner workings of the trade. Most pink pony fashion bloggers think life in the trenches of the fashion industry amounts to breaking a heel in a divot outside one of the tents .
It’s good to finally make your ecquaintance. As I’ve always said, the only people who think fashion models are stupid, are people who’ve never met fashion models.
thomas mendes // July 25, 2009 at 9:47 pm |
I have enjoyed ur work..and I happy u came out of the closet!
rock it…
wendy // July 26, 2009 at 1:27 am |
Love your writing Jenna! All I can say is, I’m so happy for you that you’re beginning to find and head towards who you are and want to be, (or perhaps if i’m just making too many assumptions) i’m just happy that you’re getting chances to write and express yourself in the words that you shape so well!
good luck in all you do Jenna!
Mimi // July 28, 2009 at 10:47 am |
hi jenna-
i’m glad i can follow your blog now, having enjoyed your jezebel posts so much.
after looking over older posts, i’m pretty sure we both worked for KRUI, at perhaps the same time (were you under the iron fist of ben high?). bizarre…
i’m moving to new york soon and am culling your site for the food recommendations (aside from really enjoying your writing). thanks!
Michael // July 29, 2009 at 2:13 am |
Jenna,
Your writing is gorgeous. The post regarding the NZ election is amazing; I wish I had found it before November.
With love, from Rotovegas.
fingersandtoes // July 29, 2009 at 2:16 am |
I just read about you in stuff.co.nz and thought “hey, I know her!” Sarah Moore from Rangi here, class of ‘99… Off to read your jezebel posts now, good stuff!
Matt Nippert // July 29, 2009 at 2:45 am |
Jenna,
You doing interviews? Even for little ol’ New Zealand? I produce Marcus Lush’s show on Radio Live and would love to have you on air sometime this week.
Cheers,
Matt
michael woolley // July 29, 2009 at 5:33 am |
“….and as I was putting on my jacket and heading for the door, the photographer called out to me, “Jenna! Please just keep writing.”
hahaha – said like a true writer. Thanks for the graduation fireworks.
Caroline // July 29, 2009 at 8:51 am |
Hi Jenna,
I am the literary agent whose tried contacting you a bunch of times through Jezebel. A huge fan of your writing, and would love to talk if you are still unsigned and interested in talking about books.
Have a look at our client list – think you will see we rep some pretty high caliber and pop culture savvy clients.
Would love to talk,
Caroline
Damien // July 29, 2009 at 10:31 am |
goodstuff
claire // July 29, 2009 at 1:24 pm |
way to go you. your writing is awesome.
dave // July 29, 2009 at 2:24 pm |
Hey Jenna, can you get in touch with us at the Sunday Star-Times, we’d love to talk to you.
Dave
+649 925 9831
+642 1189 0704
Catherine // July 29, 2009 at 10:55 pm |
Hi Jenna,
Great to see you in the newspaper this morning & find out what you have been up to since you left Christchurch –
I would love to get back in touch with your mother, she can e-mail me at
upsidedownpoet at gmail dot com
(if you can’t figure out who I am, adding the names of Sonia and Christina will probably enable you to figure it out).
paulbradshaw // July 30, 2009 at 2:02 pm |
Brilliant. And here’s why: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/07/30/another-blogger-doing-investigative-journalism-on-the-fashion-industry/
Rachel // July 31, 2009 at 10:03 am |
Dear Jenna,
I’m a literary agent in New York and I don’t know of any other way to contact you. I think you’re a beautiful writer, and I’d love to discuss the possibility of working together on a book project if you’re interested. You can reach me at rsussman@zshliterary.com
All best to you,
Rachel