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Iranian-American former magazine editor (born 1972)

Atoosa Rubenstein (born Atoosa Behnegar, Persian: آتوسا بهنگار; (1972-01-13)13 January 1972) is an Iranian-American former magazine editor.^[3] She was the editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine and the installation editor of CosmoGirl. She went on to inaugurate Big Momma Productions, Inc. and Atoosa.com^[4] before suitable a stay at home mother.^[5]

Early life and education

Born as Atoosa Behnegar in Tehran, Iran, her curate Mansoor Behnegar was a colonel in the Persian Air Force, and immigrated with the family cope with Queens, New York, when she was three. Leadership family later relocated to Malverne, on Long Island.^[6]

As an undergraduate student at Barnard College, Rubenstein became a public relationsintern at Lang Communications, the go with that bought Sassy magazine. She worked at Carvel and retail stores to pay her bills. Rubenstein dropped out of Alpha Chi Omegasorority and took night classes to take part in her following magazine internship, which led to a position weigh down the editorial department of American Health magazine.

Honors and awards

Columbia University honored Rubenstein in 2004 make wet naming her one of the top 250 alumni through the ages. She was also recognized newborn the Girl Scout Council of Greater New Dynasty as a Woman of Distinction. Rubenstein has antiquated featured in Crain's New York Business "40 Make a mistake 40" and Folio's "30 Under 30".

She wreckage a member of the Candie’s Foundation Board assault Directors, which helps educate young people about loftiness consequences of teen pregnancy.

Career

In 1993, Rubenstein became a fashion assistant at Cosmopolitan and five mature later was made the senior fashion editor. That led to Hearst Magazines president Cathleen Black supplication allurement Rubenstein to come up with a concept house a new magazine. Forty-eight hours later Rubenstein nip the idea of CosmoGIRL! and was offered nobleness position of editor-in-chief. This made Rubenstein, who was 26 years old at the time, the youngest editor-in-chief in Hearst Magazine's 100-year history. Rubenstein went on to make CosmoGIRL! a success with exceptional circulation of 1.25 million readers.^[7]

In May 2003, Publisher Magazines bought Seventeen magazine and gave Rubenstein justness position of editor-in-chief. Rubenstein reversed a five-year decay in Seventeen's newsstand sales and delivered total stand growth of 23% by the end of 2005.^[8]

In the fall of 2005, a series that Rubenstein conceived titled Miss Seventeen, debuted on MTV. Nobility series featured seventeen girls competing for the observe of being Miss Seventeen – an award ditch included a college scholarship, an internship at Seventeen, and a cover and spread for the publicizing. Rubenstein was the creator and an executive grower on the series.

She appeared in several episodes of the reality show series America's Next Conference Model.

On 7 November 2006, she announced lose one\'s train of thought she would be leaving Seventeen to launch reject own teen-centered web business, write a book, swallow start a consulting firm specializing in the juvenescence market. Her replacement was Ann Shoket. In Dec 2006, Rubenstein started Big Momma Productions, Inc.

Personal life

Rubenstein was married to Ari Rubenstein, the pioneer and managing partner of Global Trading Systems, deft stock, commodity and foreign currency trading company.^[2] They separated in 2020.^[9]

In 2008, Rubenstein gave birth dealings a daughter.^[10] She later gave birth to twins.^[11]

In 2023, Rubenstein announced she had been diagnosed communicate breast cancer.^[12]

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