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Kerri J. Kolen

Headshot of Kerri J. Kolen, a Momé contributor, smiling in a white sweater on a tree-lined street.

Kerri J. Kolen is a writer, editor, and book collaborator with twenty-five years in publishing and audio, holding senior editorial and leadership roles across Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Audible, and Pushkin Industries. She has helped shape award-winning and bestselling work across print and audio, and now collaborates with authors and brands as an independent editorial partner. A mother of three, she's drawn to the kind of honest, unglamorous storytelling about motherhood that Momé was built for.

Articles

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Dr. Morgan Cutlip leans against a doorway in a black-and-cream checkered crochet dress, a sunlit dining room behind her.
Features · Wellness

Dr. Morgan Cutlip on the Invisible Weight You Can't Quite Name

The relationship psychologist has spent years and 500-plus interviews studying the mental load. Why it is so heavy, why the conversation keeps going wrong, and what actually shifts it.

Katie Austin, visibly pregnant in an emerald bikini, walks the runway with both hands cradling her bump, smiling under blue stage light.
Features · Identity

Katie Austin Trusted Her Body Her Whole Life. Pregnancy Changed the Terms.

Division I lacrosse, five-day training weeks, a wellness brand. Then she got pregnant, and the body she'd always trusted stopped behaving like her own.

Emmy Rossum leans against a dark glass column on a city rooftop in a black corseted, tiered tulle dress, her reflection beside her.
Parenting

Emmy Rossum Makes Her Own Magic

The actress on the games, rituals, and small daily magic she builds to stay close to her family — and to herself. Plus, what solo bedtimes, a torn ankle, and a coin in a river taught her about doing it all.

Cameron Rogers, visibly pregnant in a red cropped tee, sips a shake in front of a wide-open, fully stocked refrigerator.
Pregnancy & Postpartum

Cameron Rogers on the Two Truths of Pregnancy We Don't Make Room For

The host of Conversations with Cam — a pregnancy-honesty expert humbled by her own third pregnancy — on the two feelings that can live in one body at once, and why none of it is forever.

Demi-Leigh Tebow, in a cream jacket, holds her sleeping newborn daughter cheek-to-cheek against a backdrop of sheer white curtains.
Pregnancy & Postpartum

Demi-Leigh Tebow on Stillness, Grief, and the Quiet Math of a Table for Two

The former Miss Universe on a forty-and-a-half-hour labor, grieving her father from an ocean away, and the newborn who taught her the one thing a crown never could: how to be still.

Hayden Panettiere seated alone at a restaurant table in a pale mint shirt, her chin resting on her folded hands as she gazes thoughtfully into the distance beneath warm woven pendant lights.
Pregnancy & Postpartum

Hayden Panettiere Never Stopped Choosing Her Daughter

The actress on the near-death birth, the postpartum depression that went unnamed, the impossible sacrifice she made for her daughter — and why she needs you to know you're not alone.

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