Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman

Author and public speaker on issues that concern women, including eating disorders. She is on the speaker's bureau of the National Eating Disorders Association, and has given talks at Columbia University, Princeton University, for high school and junior high students and others.

Through her study of Aesthetic Realism, ten years of anorexia and bulimia ended in Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman's life, and she has been a healthy, happy woman ever since. Originally of Massapequa, N.Y., she began her study of this education—founded in 1941 by the American philosopher Eli Siegel—in consultations at the not-for-profit Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City. Ms. Nietsch-Cooperman studied art at Parsons School of Design in New York and at Rocky Mountain College in Montana. As an Aesthetic Realism associate, she attends professional classes taught by the Class Chairman Ellen Reiss.

You can see video highlights from a talk she gave during Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Other topics Ms. Nietsch-Cooperman has spoken about in public seminars include: "Our Greatest Need: What Is It?"; "What's More Important: To Appreciate Rightly or Be Praised?"; and "Why Are Women Disappointed, and Do We Ever Want to Be?"

She is married to Aesthetic Realism consultant and actor Bennett Cooperman and lives in New York City.