Janice: The Early Years
Us Weekly editor Janice Min, a Colorado native, was profiled in yesterday's Denver Post. We'll spare you all the boring, usual stuff that Coloradans apparently don't know but you New Yorkers, naturally, do — Janice is tiny, she wears Prada, she's often barefoot around the office, her staff loves her, media people have lunch at Michael's — and instead put the spotlight on her kvelling mother:
[Nungsun Min, Janice Min's 60-something-year-old mother] is walking through the family's Tudor-style house in a Highlands Ranch gated community, digging up clippings of Min's high school journalism....
From early on, Nungsun says, Min attached herself to work. "She is so small, but she always wanted to work," says Nungsun. "She always wanted to go out and make money. I would say, 'Janice, you're only 8."'
When Min was 13, a McDonald's opened in Littleton and she lied about her age, saying she was 14, to get a job, says Nungsun. Min sold clothes at a clothing store in the Southglenn Mall. She worked a cash register at Target. She sold cosmetics at Foley's in college during a summer break.
The Us Weekly editor: She's just like us!
Well, a version of us that might have considered working at McDonald's.
