Karen Duffy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. She was the face for Revlon's "Charlie's Girl" and a VJ for MTV. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Glamour, Esquire, and the New York Daily News, and has played parts in the movies Dumb and Dumber, Celebrity, and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. She resides in New York with her husband and son.