from the editor

The True Confessions Issue

Psst, it’s time for true confessions! There’s something about spilling it all that lightens our load in this world, and although I do my best to keep other people’s secrets under locked lips, I can never resist blabbing my own. So, since I asked the brave subjects of this month’s profiles to reveal the same, here are three things you (probably wish you) didn’t know about me: 1) My hair color, nose and nails are completely authentic, but my four front teeth are as fake as my Prada purse. 2) As an 11 year-old singing Cyndi Lauper into a hairbrush, I truly believed I would grow up to be a rock star. I didn’t know back then that the hours of an editor are much more preferable. 3) I love anchovies, but—this may disqualify me as a Southern woman—my palate just cannot abide boiled peanuts. It’s a textural issue. Ah, that felt mighty liberating. Read on and discover the juicy secrets of local women you thought you knew…it just might inspire you to ‘fess up to what will set you free. C’mon, what truths do you dare to share?

~jessica leigh

jessica.leigh@skirt.com