15 Facts About Hadley Freeman

Hadley Clare Freeman was born on 15 May 1978 and is an American British journalist.

Hadley Freeman writes for The Sunday Times, having previously written for The Guardian.

Hadley Freeman suffered from anorexia and was treated in a psychiatric unit during six different periods between ages 13 and 17.

Hadley Freeman joined The Guardian in 2000 and has worked for the newspaper as a staff writer and columnist and contributes to the UK version of Vogue.

Hadley Freeman's books include The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to All Things Fashionable, in 2009 and Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies in 2013, which was described by Jennifer Lipman in The Jewish Chronicle as "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".

Karen Heller wrote in The Washington Post of Hadley Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".

Hadley Freeman ended her Weekend Guardian column in September 2021 to concentrate on interviews for the newspaper.

In November 2022, Hadley Freeman announced that she would be leaving The Guardian and would write for The Sunday Times.

In June 2018, Hadley Freeman denounced the treatment of undocumented child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping from the Holocaust.

Hadley Freeman described it as deliberate cruelty by the Trump administration, and a reflection of latent racism amongst its supporters.

Hadley Freeman has since been cited as expressing views that some have considered transphobic, particularly in regard to trans people seeking healthcare and trans people struggling with suicidal ideation.

In December 2022, after 22 years of working for The Guardian Hadley Freeman left the newspaper after she said she was denied her request to follow up on The Daily Telegraphs investigation into the charity Mermaids, which supports transgender youth in the UK.

Hadley Freeman said there was an "atmosphere of real fear" at The Guardian over its coverage of trans issues, saying that the paper was not allowing her and others to write on gender issues and barring her from interviewing JK Rowling and Martina Navratilova who have gender-critical views.

Hadley Freeman often discusses cinema, particularly from the 1980s, in her articles and occasionally in broadcasts.

Hadley Freeman has said that her favourite film is Ghostbusters and that she has a collection of related books and articles.