{"id":27538,"date":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/27538\/meet-the-girl-behind-the-blog-ivy-says"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:18:05","slug":"meet-the-girl-behind-the-blog-ivy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/27538\/meet-the-girl-behind-the-blog-ivy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Girl Behind the Blog: Ivy Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/27538.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <i>(Photo courtesy of RagMag Magazine)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>  After writing anonymously since 2009, Lebanese blogger Ivy, who doubles as our resident relationship expert at Beirut.com, has decided to reveal her identity to the world.<\/p>\n<p>  Meet Dana N. Khairallah, the girl behind the fashion blog that everyone loves: <a href=\"https:\/\/ivysays.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivy Says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Khairallah tells Beirut.com why she decided to &#8216;come out&#8217; after all these years: &#8220;I\u2019m tired of turning down great opportunities because I was worried people would figure out who I was, and it was a good idea at the time given the nature of my work. But it doesn&#8217;t matter anymore. I also got wind that some people who know who I am may be outing me, so I wasn&#8217;t going to sit around and wait for it to happen. I wanted to do it on my own terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  So what can we expect from our favorite blogging goddess in the future?  &#8220;Sneaking around under alias names takes a lot of energy, although it\u2019s been a blast,&#8221; says Khairallah. &#8220;I think brands are more comfortable working with someone they can put a face to rather than some ambiguous online persona, so I have a lot of collaborations cooking in the kitchen. I may also have to be nicer to celebs in my fashion crime scene posts since they can now come after me, or not!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Dana has kept such a tight lid on her personal life, she even kept this interesting gem from Beirut.com: &#8220;People might be surprised to know that I&#8217;m married. People knew I was engaged, but out of respect for my man (who&#8217;s a low-key kind of guy), I decided to keep our private life private. So yeah, I think that may drop a lot of jaws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Find out more about Ivy and her big reveal in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ragmag.co\/cat\/fashion\/ivybigreveal--here-she-is-meet-ivy-in-augusts-ragmag\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this month&#8217;s issue of RagMag<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo courtesy of RagMag Magazine)<\/p>\n<p>After writing anonymously since 2009, Lebanese blogger Ivy, who doubles as our resident relationship expert at Beirut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[945],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-27538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-askivy"],"authorship":[186],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO 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