Danielle Gelfand
Writer. TV Producer. Carb Loving Half-Belgian.
Hi, I’m Danielle.
I am a New York Times Travel contributing writer and former VH1 executive producer. My personal essays have been published in The New York Times, Salon, The New York Post, and others.
I'm currently at work on my memoir, Unlovable. As the only child of a Holocaust survivor mother and a father who killed himself when I was 17, I felt isolated and alone in my grief. After college, I escaped into my work as a TV producer, living other people's stories instead of my own. For decades I was certain I was unlovable, until one lonely Thanksgiving night in a hotel room, I decided to change. This is the story of how I proved myself spectacularly wrong.
For years, I avoided my past by throwing myself into my career. Here is my appearance on Today with Hoda & Jenna, where I shared how I shifted my mindset to create the life I wanted, filled with love and family.
In my New York Times essay, The Wedding I Thought Would Never Happen, I shared my most painful secret with the world. By my thirties, I’d never been on a date, though I produced relationship shows. Tired of finding partners for others, I decided it was my time for big love.
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