Hungry Girl

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Hungry Girl
Company type Private
Industry Food, Diet
Founded2004
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Key people
Lisa Lillien, Founder and CEO
Number of employees
5+
Website Hungry-Girl.com

Hungry Girl is a free daily e-mail subscription service about healthy eating that launched in May 2004. Approximately one million people receive HG's daily emails. [1]

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Hungry Girl is run by Lisa Lillien, [2] a media executive, who has also held positions at Nickelodeon and Warner Bros. [3]

In addition to daily e-mails, Hungry Girl content is seen regularly on Yahoo, [4] WeightWatchers.com, [5] Seventeen magazine, People Style Watch, the New York Daily News , Redbook Magazine, and on the TV shows Extra, The Rachael Ray Show and Good Morning America . The first Hungry Girl book was released on April 29, 2008, under the title Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. The book was published and distributed by St. Martins Press, and debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. The next two Hungry Girl books, "200 Under 200" and "Hungry Girl 1-2-3" debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

A Hungry Girl television show premiered on Cooking Channel in January 2011. Later that year, the series moved to Food Network and was cancelled after 2 seasons.

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