I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Birth: | 20th March, 1968 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Journalist |
Jacobs was born in New York City to Jewish parents Arnold Jacobs Sr., a lawyer, and Ellen Kheel. He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs attended the Dalton School and studied philosophy at Brown University. He is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons: Jasper Kheel Jacobs and twins Zane and Lucas Jacobs. He is the editor at large for Esquire and previously worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. Jacobs is a first cousin of the legal scholar Cass Sunstein.
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