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Former Teen Vogue Editor Elaine Welteroth’s Memoir Is Getting the TV Treatment

Welteroth in "Project Runway": Bravo Media

Elaine Welteroth is a judge and associate producer on “Project Runway,” has appeared as herself on “Black-ish” and “Grown-ish,” and penned an episode of the latter. Now the former Teen Vogue editor is expanding her television career with an adaptation of her book, “More Than Enough.” Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to the memoir, The Hollywood Reporter confirms, and are developing it as a series.

Welteroth will serve as co-creator and executive producer on the project. Anonymous Content’s Joy Gorman Wettels (“13 Reasons Why”) is producing.

Published this past June, “More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)” is Welteroth’s story of her life and tenure at Teen Vogue, from 2016-2018. She was “then youngest editor in chief of a Condé Nast magazine and only the second African American to hold that title in the company’s 107 years,” the source notes.

The book also details Welteroth’s experiences as the child of an interracial marriage, and her career in media, “where she often found herself the only black woman in the room.” As Teen Vogue’s editor, she broadened “the magazine’s coverage to include politics and social justice issues in addition to fashion and pop culture. She also created and hosted the Teen Vogue Summit.”

“It’s more than a coming-of-age story,” Welteroth has said of her memoir, “it’s really about coming into your own power, and delves into all of the intersections of what makes us who we are. Not just the career aspects, but also the personal aspects, the family dynamics, the racial-identity piece. Now is the time for me to tell this story because I spent 10 years of my career just trying to get a seat at the table. At 30, I was at the head of the table. And now I want to build my own table,” she explained. “This book, for me, is my first table that I built, and I built it for my community to come and have conversations that matter. “


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