Adrienne Arieff

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Adrienne Arieff is an entrepreneur and author of several books, including the controversial book The Sacred Thread. [1] She wrote The Sacred Thread after traveling to India and hiring a woman there to serve as a surrogate mother for her twin daughters that were conceived via in vitro fertilisation. [2] [3] Arieff's positive treatment of surrogacy prompted debate over the ethical and legal status of paying poor women to serve as surrogate mothers. [4] [5] [6]

Arieff also co-wrote with Beverly West Fairy-Tale Success: A Guide to Entrepreneurial Magic which was released in October 2014. [7] [8] The book is written as a manual for young women who want to run their own business. [9] Arieff founded her business, Arieff Communications, a San Francisco-based public relations and marketing firm, in 2002. [10]

She is the sister of design writer Allison Arieff. [11]

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