Atoosa Rubenstein - Biography

Last Editor: pgrinke				Atoosa Rubenstein Biography -   Name : Atoosa Rubenstein Profession : Journalist Birth Details : born Atoosa Behnegar, Tehran, Iran in 1972 Birth name : Atoosa Behnegar Personal quotes : I've never been cool, never! I was never Miss Popularity. I can laugh about it now, but at the time, it was very lonely. That's why I like the fabulou Spouse : Ari Rubenstein (29 August 1998 - present)

Atoosa Rubenstein Trivia -

She is the editor of Seventeen Magazine, one of America's most popular teen magazines. Graduated from Barnard College in 1993. Her father, Mansoor Behnegar, was a Colonel in the Iranian Air Force Grew up in Queens and Long Island. Was a Sassy Magazine intern. Grew up in a very traditional Muslim household and ended up marrying a guy who is an independent commodities trader on the New York Cotton Exchange.

Atoosa Rubenstein Detailed Biography -

Atoosa Rubenstein (born Atoosa Behnegar, Tehran, Iran in 1972), is an American journalist, editor-in-chief of the Hearst Corporation magazine Seventeen and earlier founding editor of CosmoGIRL!. Her father, Mansoor Behnegar, was a colonel in the Iranian air force. When she was three, her family moved to the United States. First living in Queens, New York City, they later relocated to the small town of Malverne, Long Island. As an undergraduate student at Barnard College, Rubenstein worked her first internship as a public relations intern at Lang Communications, the company that bought Sassy Magazine. Though she loved the industry she was involving herself in, she was forced to work side jobs at Carvel and retail stores to pay her bills. Rubenstein had to drop out of her sorority and take on night classes to take part in her 2nd internship which brought her to the editorial department of American Health magazine. In 1993 she took on the position of fashion assistant at Cosmopolitan magazine and five years later became the senior fashion editor. This led to Cathleen Black, the president of Hearst Magazines, coming to Rubenstein in 1998 and asking her to come up with a concept for a new magazine. Forty-eight hours later Rubenstein presented the idea of CosmoGirl! and was offered the position of editor on the spot. This made her the youngest editor in Hearst Magazine's 100 year history. Rubenstein went on to make CosmoGirl! wildly popular with a circulation of 1.25 million readers. In May of 2005, Hearst Magazine bought the venerable Seventeen magazine and gave Rubenstein the position of editor-in-chief. She has hopes to "clean up" the magazine and bring it back to what it was like when it first came out 30 years ago. Rubenstein currently lives in East Hampton with her husband of 7 years, Ari Rubenstein. Atoosa, Former High School Loser, Is Hearst’s New Cosmogirl Queen, Andrew Goldman, The New York Observer, Feb 14 2000.