Stephen Fried
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"Stephen Fried" is an American investigative journalism/investigative journalist, non-fiction author, essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket), a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993. He has since written Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Bantam 1998), an investigation of medication safety and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; The New Rabbi (Bantam 2002), which weaves the dramatic search for a new religious leader at one of the nation's most influential houses of worship with a meditation on the author's Jewish upbringing; Husbandry (Bantam 2007), a collection of essays on marriage and men; and Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Empire that Civilized the Wild West (Bantam 2010), the first biography of restaurant and hotel entrepreneur Fred Harvey (entrepreneur)/Fred Harvey.

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These women work incredibly hard. They take drugs for the same reason a truck driver takes drugs. To stay awake and do their job. Like steroids, these are performance-enhancing drugs.

It's important to make that show. You have to go away for at least a month and then do an interview with a talk show.

They're going after her because she's a mother.

The fashion business has always had this problem trying to deal with self-destruction.

I have talked to many models who have been sent by their agencies to get cleaned up. I don't think they have a hands-off approach at all.