Elaine Welteroth - The Washington Post

Elaine Welteroth

Los Angeles

Contributing advice columnist
Elaine Welteroth writes the Ask Elaine advice column for The Washington Post. You can submit questions to her here. She is an award-winning journalist, a TV host, the former editor in chief of Teen Vogue and the author of the New York Times bestseller “More Than Enough,” which won the 2020 NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work in autobiography. In addition to The Post, her writing appears in the New York Times, British Vogue and Time. Welteroth can be seen on television weekly doling out fashion industry advice as a judge on Bravo’s new “Project Runway,” and she previously was a co-host of CBS’s “The Talk.” Her MasterClass on redesigning your career debuted in 2021 and has helped thousands navigate career transitions. She is a new mom living with her husband in Los Angeles.
Latest from Elaine Welteroth

Ask Elaine: After a traumatic birth, new mom can’t let go of debilitating fears

This new mom just wants to enjoy her baby without being so fearful all the time.

April 23, 2024

Ask Elaine: I want to change careers. Do I have to choose between purpose and profit?

A reader wants to pivot their career and go to film school but isn’t sure what kind of a safety net they’ll need to make the change.

April 2, 2024

Ask Elaine: How do I decide between living abroad and coming back to America?

A reader is torn between staying in Madrid after teaching English there or moving back to the U.S.

March 19, 2024

Ask Elaine: Telling my abusive siblings they’re not invited to my son’s wedding

How does this letter writer tell their abusive siblings they’re not invited to their son’s upcoming wedding?

March 5, 2024

Ask Elaine: Can I fix a 50-year friendship after she ghosted me?

My friend called me critical and then ghosted me. What should I do?

February 13, 2024

Ask Elaine: A romance scammer is conning my sister. What should I do?

Her sister is being conned by a romance scammer -- but doesn’t want to hear the truth.

January 30, 2024

Ask Elaine: New mom loses the battle for mother’s attention to her sister

A new mom is frustrated by the lack of support she’s received from her mother -- because her mother is always helping her more “dominant” sister.

January 16, 2024

Ask Elaine: I’ve watched my granddaughter for four years. I want my life back.

A grandma is ready to move on after four years of caring for her granddaughter. Her daughter is putting up ‘fierce resistance.’

January 2, 2024

Ask Elaine: How do I respond to people who say my only child needs a sibling?

Another pregnancy would be very dangerous for this reader. How does she respond to people who say that her son needs a sibling?

December 19, 2023

Ask Elaine: I’m in my dream grad school program. I can’t stop doubting myself.

A reader struggles with feeling “left behind and isolated” while in their dream grad school program.

December 5, 2023
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