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Elizabeth Jenkins is a freelance writer and Contributor to InStyle. Before becoming a freelancer in December 2007, Elizabeth was an editor at InStyle for four years—three in New York and one in Los Angeles. During that time, she wrote and edited hundreds of stories on celebrity weddings, interior design, beauty and fashion for InStyle and its special issues (Weddings, Home and Makeover). She has interviewed headliners such as Christina Aguilera, Oscar Blandi, Michael Smith and Peggy Post.

Elizabeth also writes for Redbook, Food Network Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Health, Country Living, HGTV Magazine and Sunset. She has also been published in Real Simple (and its special issues, Real Simple Travel and Real Simple Family), C, Weight Watchers, The Bride & Bloom, TV Guide, O at Home, Glo.com, AisleDash.com (now known as stylelist.com), and the U.K.'s Homes & Gardens. She has scouted houses for Country Living and O at Home and written features for Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Though she is based in L.A., Elizabeth also reports on restaurants, boutiques, hotels and spas in Orange County, San Diego and Palm Springs.

For the past year, she has taken on various writing projects for clients in the beauty, fashion and bridal industries. They have sought her out for help with everything from company bios to press releases to branding strategies. Elizabeth can provide a list of referrals upon request.

Elizabeth is an expert on celebrity weddings and etiquette and spoke about trends at A Soolip Wedding, an annual event hosted by Soolip, the high-end L.A. stationer, in March 2009. She also moderated a discussion with designer Trina Turk on the intersection of fashion and interior design for the La Cienega Design Walk in May 2009.

Elizabeth was born and raised in Houston, Texas, attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and now lives in Los Angeles, Calif., with her husband, Lee, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, and their two children, Austin and Ainsley.

(Updated February 2, 2012)

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