Michele Bender is an award-winning freelance beauty, fitness, health, parenting and relationship writer. She is both a ghost-writer with numerous best selling books to her credit (though she can't reveal the titles or else she wouldn't be a "ghost") and a magazine writer for numerous national women's publications. Among others, these include Allure, Cosmo, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Marie Claire, More, Parenting, Parents, Prevention, Real Simple, Redbook, Self, Shape and The New York Times.  Her work has also appeared in essay collections such as Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, Chicken Soup for the College Soul and If These Walls Could Talk.