Background
Fuller was born in Toronto to a real-estate lawyer and an elementary school teacher.
Fuller was born in Toronto to a real-estate lawyer and an elementary school teacher.
She graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute in 1974 and attended University of Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1977.
Fuller has been responsible for several American magazine titles, including as vice president and editorial director of American Media (Star, Shape, Men"s Fitness, Natural Health, and Fit Pregnancy). In 1978, Fuller was a fashion reporter at the Toronto Star. Two years later, she became a sportswear editor for Women"s Wear Daily.
She landed her first Editor-in-Chief job at Canadian national fashion magazine Flare for 3 years, from 1983 to 1986, and jumped to YM magazine as Editor-in-Chief.
In 1994, she became Editor-in-Chief and launched the American version of Marie Claire magazine. In 1996, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, succeeding Helen Gurley Brown.
From 1998 to 2001, she was editor of Glamour magazine. Fuller worked as Editor-in-Chief of Us Weekly and redesigned the title, creating the modern celebrity newsweekly.
She created such signature sections as “Stars Are Just Like Us,” “The Buzzometer,” and “Who Wore lieutenant Best.”
Beginning in July 2003, Bonnie served as Executive Vice President and Chief Editorial Director of American Media Incorporated., where she oversaw International Medical Association’s 16 weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly magazines, including Star, Shape, Natural Health, Country Weekly and Men"s Fitness.
Under Bonnie’s leadership at International Medical Association, Star relaunched from a tabloid to a glossy magazine. Bonnie stepped down from her position in May 2008, but remained the Editor-at-Large at Star and a consultant to International Medical Association. In July 2009 she was hired by Jay Penske to relaunch HollywoodLife.com, a celebrity news site. Bonnie Fuller is currently President and Editor-in-Chief of HollywoodLife.com and a PubMed Central Senior Advisor.
Bonnie also hosts a HollywoodLife weekly podcast available to download via iTunes.
She is a frequent contributor to a variety of media outlets including HuffingtonPost.com, Advertising Age, the Today show, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, Good Day New York, Inside Edition, Nancy Grace, FOX Digital News, Cable News Network New Day, WPIX and CTV News. On Tuesday mornings, she appears on Sirius XM Radio’s Cosmo Radio.
She authored the bestselling book The Joys of Much Too Much: Go Foreign The Big Life — The Great, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You’ve Ever Wanted.
Married Michael Fuller, June 26, 1983. 4 children.