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Elizabeth Ann "Liz" Jones〔For Elizabeth as her first name see Liz Jones ("Why Liz is in a tizz", ) ''Evening Standard'', 19 November 2003〕 (born 5 September 1958) is a British journalist. She originally followed a career in fashion journalism, but her work has broadened into confessional writing. Jones divides opinion. While she has gained positive responses, a "beautifully natural writer, as well as a funny one" according to Deborah Ross in ''The Independent'', some of her articles have also received fierce criticism. A former editor of ''Marie Claire'', she has been on the staff of ''The Sunday Times'' and the ''Evening Standard''. Jones currently writes columns for the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Mail on Sunday''. ==Early life and career== Jones is the youngest child of an Army father and a former ballerina.〔 Her six siblings are Claire (1941-2015), Philip (1947), Nick (1949-2011), Carolyn (1951), Tony (1952) and Sue (1956).〔Liz Jones's Diary: How One Single Girl Got Married p.163,〕 She grew up in the village of Rettendon, near Chelmsford in Essex, and attended Brentwood County High School for Girls. According to Jones, "I was six when I first realised how hideous I looked",〔Liz Jones ("What I see in the mirror" ), ''The Guardian'', 10 March 2007〕 and she has been an anorexic since the age of about 11.〔Decca Aitkenhead ("Liz Jones: 'My whole anti-mums thing is jealousy. I've got nothing. Just work'" ), ''The Guardian'', 6 July 2013〕 By the age of 17 she wished to look like model Janice Dickinson,〔 and discovered ''Vogue'' magazine in Southend Public Library in August 1977, was a revelation for her. It "wasn’t just a magazine to me, its cover was a mirror: how I wanted to look, dress and be".〔Liz Jones ''Girl Least Likely To: Thirty years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street'', cited in David Sexton ("Liz Jones, journalism’s mistress of self-loathing" ), ''Evening Standard'', 4 July 2013. Jones tells Decca Aitkenhead that she discovered ''Vogue'' at 17, in other words a year or so earlier.〕 Jones studied journalism at the London College of Printing. After leaving college, she began to work for ''Company'' in 1981, initially as a sub-editor, eventually becoming a staff writer before leaving to go freelance in 1986. In 1989 she began an 11-year stint at ''The Sunday Times Magazine'', becoming deputy editor of their "Style" magazine in 1998. In April 1999, Jones was appointed editor of the UK edition of ''Marie Claire''. An announcement by Jones during June 2000 that the leading fashion magazines were setting up a self-regulatory body concerning the size of models was "contradicted" by the editors of rival magazines. Faced by a declining circulation,〔〔An article from this period asserts that circulation initially rose after Jones became editor. See Polly Vernon ("The girls can't help it", ) ''The Guardian'', 2 March 2000〕 she was sacked from this post two years later〔Liz Jones's Diary: How One Single Girl Got Married p.70〕 for refusing to use bulimic models and (according to Jones) listing in the magazine the freebies she had been offered in the previous month.〔 She has continued to write about the fashion industry. In July 2013, Decca Aitkenhead wrote that "no one deconstructs its futile, psychologically destructive false promises more forensically than Jones – and in a mass market tabloid at that".〔 During her period at ''Marie Claire'' she began to write about her life,〔 and met the journalist Nirpal Dhaliwal, who had been sent by BBC Radio in 2000 to interview her. Jones embarked on a seven-year relationship with him; their "disastrous" four-year marriage ended in 2007. Wanting to become pregnant while with an earlier boyfriend, she has written: "I resolved to steal his sperm from him in the middle of the night. I thought it was my right, given that he was living with me and I had bought him many, many M&S ready meals." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liz Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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