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Amanda Whiting

Culture writer

Amanda Whiting is a culture writer at The Independent, focusing on television and books. She's previously written for Vulture, Bustle, InStyle, Washingtonian Magazine and Honolulu Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.

<p>Leighton Meester</p>

Leighton Meester: ‘Morality has shifted since Gossip Girl’

<p>‘I feel compelled to furnish my daughter the perfect Christmas – the first one she has any chance of remembering. So far, it’s been much harder than my parents ever made it look’</p>

My daughter’s first real Christmas has become an expensive disaster

Why did it take so long for Britain’s best Wags to be taken seriously?

<p>‘Somehow, my life has revolved around breasts’: Barbie inventor Ruth Handler in 1999, and Margot Robbie in the new ‘Barbie’ movie</p>

The remarkable life of Barbie creator Ruth Handler