Margaret Wheeler Johnson
Margaret is a contributing editor at BDG, writing reported features and commentary that challenge traditional ideas about what it means to be a woman, a mother, and a family. She also covers eating disorders, diet culture, and body image.
She previously edited features and oversaw major editorial initiatives, partnerships, brand extensions, and all digital issues across Bustle, Romper, Elite Daily, NYLON, and The Zoe Report. She has served as the managing editor of both Bustle and Romper, which she launched in 2015. Before coming to BDG, she was the founding editor of Huffington Post Women. She also worked at Babble.com during the Mommy Bloggers’ true heyday, and she was once a not very effective features assistant at Vogue.
She graduated from Princeton, got her masters degree in journalism through NYU's program in Cultural Reporting and Criticism, and has taught graduate students in the Publishing department of NYU's School for Professional Studies. Originally from New Orleans, she lives in Manhattan with her wife, four children, and a vizsla named Clay.
Books
What Would Your High School Self Think Of You Now?
Elyssa Friedland’s new novel, The Most Likely Club, takes on thwarted millennial ambition.
Wellness
Why Wouldn’t Your Nutritionist Have An Eating Disorder?
The people we pay to tell us how to eat often struggle to feed themselves.
28
At 28, Huma Abedin Was Sleeping On Couches & Wearing Zara
With her memoir, ‘Both/And,’ Hillary Clinton's right hand finally tells her own story.
Stepford Lies
Myths About The Suburbs As Outdated As The Mall
Everything you think you know about life on the edge of a city is wrong, reports Margaret Wheeler Johnson.
Life
What Dieting Costs Us
Remember 2020, when we were sobered by our political and epidemiological reality and encouraged to practice self care?
Politics
Why It Hurts So Much
When RBG died, I started trying to define what we'd lost.
Sex & Relationships
How One Psychologist Upended Everything We Know About Women, Sex, & Monogamy
Psychology had an explanation for why women are "naturally" monogamous. Terri Conley blew that up.
Health
Your Health, A To Z
Have a health question the internet won't answer? Here's the women's health index you've been looking for.
Life
There Are Real Reasons You're Playing Pioneer Woman In Your Apartment Right Now
Life
The Riveter & Alaska Airlines Are Giving Away 2 Round Trip Holiday Flights, So Run Don't Walk
Life
Can The Riveter Make Work Saner For All? We're Going To The Summit To Find Out
Style
Soko Glam’s Charlotte Cho Has Already Upended The Beauty Industry — And It’s Only The Start
Books
Samantha Irby Writes About Gross Stuff, But There's A Rule-Breaking Reason For That
