New York based fashion blogger Leandra Medine claims she “may have been Ernest Hemingway in my last life, or Prince” on her personal Twitter handle and has over 260,000 followers for her Man Repeller feed. Married to financier Abie Cohen since 2012, this self-declared “87% extrovert” believes “tattoos are literally a cry for help” used by people who “decided to yell using [their] bodies”. She once commented: “Good fashion is about pleasing women, not men, so as it happens, the trends that we love, men hate. And that is fantastic”.
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Man Repeller? …she certainly is.
I’m glad that lollipop she’s eating is not my old fella!