Alex Kuczynski, long-time reporter for The New York Times and columnist for The New York Times Style Magazine, is the author of a book about our craving and obsession for beauty at any cost: Beauty Junkies: In Search of the Thinnest Thighs, Perkiest Breasts, Smoothest Faces, Whitest Teeth and Skinniest, Most Perfect Toes in America.

The book was named an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review and received critical praise from dozens of publications and media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Houston Chronicle, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, The New York Times Book Review and National Public Radio. The book has been translated into eight languages, and was excerpted in Vanity Fair.

Alex has been proudly Botox-free for five years.