Emme, the supermodel, television personality, best-selling author, lecturer, clothing designer, and women’s advocate has a clear mission: to awaken the inner magnificence inherent in each of us. It’s no wonder People magazine selected her twice as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" and Ladies’ Home Journal chose her as one of the "Most Important Women in America" and one of the "Most Fascinating Women of the Year." And the accolades don’t stop there: she was honored as a Glamour magazine "Woman of the Year" and as one of Biography magazine’s “25 Most Influential Women.”

Currently, Emme brings her love of clothing to QVC with me by emme™, her signature line of comfortable, trend forward, sportswear separates in sizes 2-26. Emme burst onto the scene as the world’s first full-figured supermodel and, as host of E! Entertainment Television’s "Fashion Emergency", she quickly became a popular icon not only in the United States, but around the globe. Emme’s television and radio appearances are innumerable, but most recently, she was seen on ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, Oprah, CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW and American Morning with Soledad O’Brien, 20/20, CNN Headline News’ Showbiz Tonight, Montel, Court TV’s Catherine Crier Live, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, and as guest host of the Joan Hamburg Show on WOR Radio, not only as a fashion expert but advocating for women on important issues including lifestyle, the green movement, mothering, and body image.

Always a trendsetter, Emme became the first full figured model ever to land a spokesperson’s contract with a cosmetics company when she signed with Revlon. Her views have set a refreshingly new standard of beauty both here and abroad. She is also the first full-figured model to have a high fashion collectible doll sculpted in her likeness.

A best selling author, Emme chronicled her extraordinary life and rise to success in her first book, TRUE BEAUTY (Putnam/Perigee, 1997). Emme then shared her passionate perspective on life when she penned her second book entitled Life's Little Emergencies (St. Martin’s Press, 2003. She collaborated with her husband, Phillip Aronson, on her next two books. The first, Morning Has Broken: A Couple's Journey Through Depression (NAL, 2006), chronicles their struggle and triumph as a couple over Phil’s depression. The second, What Are You Hungry For? (Harper Collins, 2007), is a newly released children’s book that addresses the reality that children have many hungers, including emotional ones.

Emme is a vocal advocate for people of all ages to be fit and to live a healthy lifestyle while simultaneously combating societal and peer pressure to be something other than what comes naturally. Her message is aimed at increasing awareness and raising funds to help treat eating and body image disorders. She was the first model to speak to these issues before a congressional sub-committee in Washington, D.C. Says Emme, "We live in a society that is based upon the attainment of unrealistic beauty. I want women to know their self-esteem is not contingent upon their dress size." Emme is the Chair Ambassador of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), serves on the board of Ophelia’s Place and Beyond 12 (working to eradicate child rape in Africa) and is a National Ambassador for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Emme’s popularity as a lecturer is well earned. She promotes and exemplifies positive body image, self-esteem, and self-acceptance as a sought after keynote speaker. She lectures at national workshops and seminars, prestigious universities including Yale, Harvard, and NYU as well as middle and high schools around the country. A graduate of Syracuse University, with a degree in speech communications, Emme speaks on behalf of the many women who until now have had no voice when she reminds us that 62% of American women are a size 12 and over.

Born in New York City, Emme was raised in Saudi Arabia and returned to the US as a teenager. Syracuse University awarded Emme a full athletic scholarship where she excelled both academically and as a member of the crew team. Emme was invited to the US Olympic Team trials, as well as several US National Team trials. She was later inducted into the Syracuse University Orange Plus Hall of Fame for her significant contribution to women's athletics and to the sport of rowing. After graduation, she spent two years in Flagstaff, AZ where she was a reporter and morning anchor for the NBC affiliate KNAZ-TV.

Emme lives on the East Coast with her husband, Phillip, and their daughter.

For more information, visit www.emmestyle.com

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