BettyConfidential

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BettyConfidential
Editor-in-chiefApril Daniels Hussar
Former editors Myrna Blyth
Founder
FoundedMarch 2008
CountryUnited States
Website Official website (2020 archive)

BettyConfidential.com was a United States women's online magazine. It had 2.5 million unique visitors a month.

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History

Launched in March 2008, BettyConfidential.com was co–founded by author and television commentator Deborah Perry Piscione and Internet entrepreneur Shaun Marsh. [1] After conducting studies of women on the internet, both Piscione and Marsh wanted to connect women who shared similar life stages, circumstance, goals, and interest in order for them to help and support other women.

The name Betty was chosen for the website to convey a trustworthy friend. Confidential was chosen to represent the hidden aspirations that exist in all women. [2]

As of 2023 the BettyConfidential domain was for sale, with no activity on their social media pages since 2017.

Contributors

The editorial department is headed up by editor-in-chief April Daniels Hussar. It was previously run by Myrna Blyth, author, TV commentator and editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal , and founding editor-in-chief of More Magazine. The editorial staff is Sarah Polonsky, senior editor: Celebrities, Jane Farrell, senior editor: Mama Betty, Libby Keatinge, senior editor: Love+Sex, PJ Gach, senior editor: Style+Beauty, Faye Brennan, assistant editor, Kathryn H. Cusimano, assistant editor, Carolyn French, editorial assistant. [8] A comprehensive list of contributors can be found here Our Team at BettyConfidential.com.

CNN's Soledad O'Brien serves as chairman of the advisory board.

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