Name Lesley ArfinAge / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB March 8, 1979. As of 2024, she is around 45 years old.Wikipedia Biography / Profile BackgroundIntroduction :
Lesley Arfin is an American comedy writer, author, and producer.
Personal Life : Marriage, Education and Family
- Lesley is Jewish. She hails from Long Island, New York and was born on March 8, 1979.
- She is married to Paul Rust, who is an American comedian and writer.
- The couple met at comedian Chelsea Peretti’s birthday party.
- They have a daughter together named Mary James. She was born on October 10, 2017.
- The couple also has a dog named Judy.
- Lesley studied at Hampshire College in Massachusetts and graduated in 2001.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Soon after her graduation, Lesley began an internship with VICE Magazine.
- She was specially assigned her own column called “Dear Diary.”
- It was compiled into a book by VICE Books and MTV Press in 2007. Unable to accept reality, she flew to India for a pilgrimage, but continued to update her blog.
- She returned in 2008 & was immediately hired by “MissBehave” magazine as the Editor in Chief.
- Unfortunately, the women’s magazine company folded after Lesley published only 2 issues of the magazine. She continued managing the website for a while, but the economic crisis was too severe for the company to bear, and eventually shut down the website as well.
- Arfin has since donefreelance writing for several publications, such as Jezebel, iD, Paper, Russh etc.
- In between publications, she also assisted Cindy Greene and Heather Mary Jackson in the fashion industry.
- She soon scored big when she was picked up by HBO TV to become a staff writer for their drama series, Girls.
- She also co-wrote the Netflix original series – Love together with her husband and director Judd Apatow.
- Lesley also wrote some episodes of Fox television police sitcom – Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Lesley is popular on Instagram, with over 20,000 followers.
- She has done many and a large number of columns written about her.
- She wrote her first diary when she was just 11 years old, and instantly knew that she has found her passion.
- Lesley shared a bottle of whiskey with her guy friends when she was 12 years old.
- In her early teenage years, she got involved with drugs (especially heroin) and became an addict. She came clean in 2012 and has abstained from drugs since.
- She only eats cookies and biscuits for breakfast & dislikes cooking.
- Lesley has a strong sense of fashion awareness, and has interested many bloggers to write about her style.
- She is an avid reader.
- She still keeps her baby blanket, and owns a pair of black leather motorcycle boots which she would never depart with.
- She admits that she has difficulty opening up about her private emotions of the present, but not those of the past.
- For her book called Dear Diary, she called up friends whom she had not spoken to for over 10 years and interviewed them.
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