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Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman studied art before moving into journalism. After working at The Face, she joined The Observer as an editor, and started writing a column for Observer Magazine in 2010.

Photo of Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman studied art before moving into journalism. After working at The Face, she joined The Observer as an editor, and started writing a column for Observer Magazine in 2010.

  • Eva Wiseman
    Relationships, like chocolate  biscuits, have a labelling issue

    It seems chocolate is not always chocolate, and ethical non-monogamy is not always ethical

    Wed, 12 Nov 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    The match: My sister and her new DNA

    What happens when you get new blood and new DNA from a complete stranger? This is the story of a woman whose own features began to change following a stem cell transplant.

    40 min • S1, E324

  • Eva Wiseman
    I’m going ‘natural blonde’ – and it feels so unnatural

    Getting back to my roots comes with a loaded mythology, from Marilyn and Barbara to Maga and Millie Bobby Brown

    Thu, 6 Nov 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    What I learned from the Margaret Thatcher estate sale

    An auction of the Iron Lady’s personal effects gives us insight into her private life – but also, perhaps, ourselves

    Wed, 29 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    How Isabella Burley became fashion’s most influential ‘shop girl’

    The creative force behind Climax Books has risen from shop girl to It girl

    Wed, 22 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Fashion Week showed us the body positivity movement is over

    The main trend revealed on the catwalks is that women are expected to be thinner

    Tue, 21 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    ‘I’ve fallen in love with school lunch leftovers’

    A new initiative sees top chefs cook school meals from scratch

    Mon, 20 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Memories and milestones on the Istrian coast

    The edge of Croatia proves the ideal place to create a family holiday to remember

    Sun, 19 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Having kids has changed my cinema experience

    The psychedelic joy of children’s screenings has replaced the indulgence of going to the movies as an adult

    Fri, 17 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Get off your phone, grandad

    Maybe our fears about the ill effects of social media, screen time and doomscrolling are wasted on the young

    Fri, 10 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Not even botulism can stop the growing appeal of cosmetic injectables

    A study of Botox patients reveals worrying lapses in safety – and how risking our health in the name of beauty is normalised

    Fri, 3 Oct 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    ‘Intimate deodorants suggest we want our genitals to smell like food’

    The growing hunger for fragrance rather than food has led to new ways to cover our bodily odours with gourmet scents

    Fri, 26 Sept 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Michèle Lamy: ‘This is me, every day’

    The iconic designer and muse, 81, shares her thoughts on the unruliness of beauty

    Sun, 21 Sept 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Meeting my sister’s stem-cell donor felt a little like a first date

    Lunch with a stranger would became the meeting of an extension of our family

    Fri, 19 Sept 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    The ugly truth behind beauty’s obsession with packaging

    Beauty products now have their own covetable merch, but the packaging can’t conceal the perils of over-consumption

    Fri, 12 Sept 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    ‘I’m incredulous anyone would want to know about my life’

    The actor on the perils and pleasures of being herself

    Sun, 7 Sept 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Sometimes hope means waiting for a stranger

    Two years of tension, illness, adjusting, and one day… a match

    Fri, 29 Aug 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Know thyself: the lyrical power of Self Esteem

    Chart-topping musician Self Esteem talks rage, love, poetry – and why she'd like to be Enya

    Sun, 24 Aug 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    The problem with ‘gentle parenting’

    The new parenting approach can look like just another way of telling us we are bringing our kids up wrong

    Sat, 23 Aug 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    ‘A photoshoot loomed, but I prefer to forget I have a face’

    You might notice my column has a fresh new photo – less visible is my abject horror

    Thu, 7 Aug 2025

  • Eva Wiseman
    Alarm bells ring when the fraud department calls

    When Eva Wiseman fell for a phone scam, she wondered: were the fraudsters encouraged by her last column?

    Wed, 30 Jul 2025

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