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Named by Glamour magazine as one of America’s top-ten college women “most likely to succeed—at anything,” 26-year-old best-selling author and motivational speaker Nancy Redd has spent the most recent years of her life on a mission to tackle the issues least discussed but most significant in young women’s lives.

In her new book Body Drama, which is a New York Times Best-Seller and a 2008 NAACP Image Award nominee, Nancy celebrates the many versions of “normal,” replacing seriously erroneous information with the honest, medically proven truth in a language all girls can understand. Body Drama dares to empower a new generation—with facts instead of fantasies, and the priceless gift of self-knowledge.

Two weeks after graduating from Harvard with an honors degree in Women’s Studies, author Nancy Redd won the title of Miss Virginia, going on to make the Top 10 and winning the swimsuit competition at Miss America 2004. Nancy once won $250,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 2002 (donating 10% to 4-H, where she sat on the Board of Trustees until this year), and Nancy has been named L’OREAL’s Beauty of Giving Young Woman of the Year and was one of Harvard magazine’s Top Six Seniors. She is also a former National Coca-Cola Scholar, a Toyota Scholar, and an Ebony Magazine Scholar.

Nancy is a contributing editor at CosmoGIRL! Magazine, where she is also the Body & Soul expert. She is also an AOL Wellness Coach. She and her unique views have been featured on E! True Hollywood Stories, PEOPLE magazine, NPR, PBS, Inside Edition, CBS’ The Early Show, Eyewitness Kids News, Discovery Channel, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, ABC’s Good Morning America, J14, and more.

On June 9th, 2007 she married her college sweetheart Rupak, who was the first person to support her dream to write Body Drama.