Doree Shafrir
1. What is your favorite thing right now?
Listening to my son figure out words
2. If you were to be reincarnated as an animal, what animal would it be?
An owl
3. What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?
You're a good mom
4. If you could travel anywhere tomorrow, where would you go?
The Maldives
5. What do you consider your best feature?
My eyes
6. What is one thing that makes you happy?
My son
7. What is the food you would take to a desert island?
Ice cream (probably very impractical)
8. What is something you never get tired of?
See above (ice cream)
9. What is something about you that people are always surprised to learn?
I did theatre in high school
10. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
If someone tells you who they are, believe them
11. Who would you like to play you in the biopic of your life?
Emily Mortimer
12. Please share your favorite photo of yourself and why it is your favorite.
I hate having photos taken of me, but we had a professional photographer (Diana Ragland) take photos of us for Forever35 and had our hair and makeup done, and I felt pretty and relaxed, and I think that comes across here!
Doree Shafrir is a writer and podcaster. Her first novel, Startup, was published by Little, Brown in 2017 and was called “biting and astute” by the New York Times Book Review. Her memoir, Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer, will be published by Ballantine in June 2021. In addition to Forever35, Doree is the co-host with her husband of Matt & Doree’s Eggcellent Adventure, a podcast about navigating infertility and the IVF process. She has also written about culture, women’s issues, parenting, media, and celebrity for publications including The Cut, The New York Times, and Slate, and was formerly an editor at BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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