AWARDS
LIM COLLEGE awards Emme Honorary Doctorate and Distinguished Achievement Award, 2021
Syracuse University’s awards Emme Arent’s Award- the University’s highest Alumni honor, 2018
Women & Fashion FilmFest (WFF) Inspiration and Visionary Award, 2015
EMME S.A.R.A. Award, 2006
EMME AWARD, EDAP (Currently NEDA: National Eating Disorders Association) 1999
Girl Scouts of America: “Woman of Distinction – New York”, 1997
TV
CO-HOST, Beach Body, T25, 2016
HOST: Fashion Emergency, E! Entertainment Television, 1997-2001
HOST: More To Love, FOX/Warner Bros, 2009
HOST: Weight Bias Video Series, Vol 1+2, Yale University, 2007
CO-HOST, Montel Williams Show, 2007
ACTRESS: Talk to Me starring Kyra Sedgwick, TV Show Series, Guest Appearance, 2000
REPORTER/PRODUCER, KNAZ-TV NBC Affiliate, Flagstaff, AZ, 1986-1988
STAGE
ACTRESS: Nora Ephron’s Love Loss and What I Wore, Director: Karen Carpenter, Westside Theater, NYC, 2011
FILM
Self, Documentary, CURVE, Directed by David DeBenedetto, and Constantine Valhouli. With Emme, Kathy Najimy, Simon Doonan, Todd Oldham, Cathrine Schuller, and Katy Hansz, 2002
Self, Documentary, Straight/Curve: redefining body image, Directed by Jenny McQuaile and Yael Melamede, 2018
PODCAST/RADIO
HOST: True Beauty with Emme, (Summer 2023)
HOST: EmmeStyle, Cabana, 2018
COHOST: Morning Show with Elvis Duran, Z100, 1998
GUEST HOST: The Lisa Birnbaum Show, Greenstone Media,
GUEST HOST: Joan Hamburg Show, 77- WABC
BEAUTY
First full-figured spokesmodel Revlon ColorStay, 1997-1999
First full-figured spokesmodel Clairol, 2002
APPAREL
First full-figured celebrity to have a sportswear 12-24 collections in major department stores, 2000-2019
BLOOMINGDALES, EMME Collection, Kellwood
NORDSTROM, EMME Collection, Kellwood
LORD & TAYLOR, EMME Collection, Kellwood
DILLARD’S, EMME Collection, Kellwood
JC PENNY, True Beauty by EMME, Kellwood
QVC, Me by EMME, Larsen & Associates,
ASHLEY STEWART, Me by EMME, KBL Industries,
AUTHOR
Curvy & Confident (Chicken Soup For The Soul) 2018
What are You Hungry For? (Harper Collins) 2007
Morning Has Broken (Putnam) co-author, 2005
Life’s Little Emergencies (St. Martin’s Press) 2003
True Beauty (Putnam/Perigee Press) 1997
“Ask Emme” Columnist, MODE Magazine (life, style and everything in between), 1999-2003
“Simply Green with Emme” Columnist, iVillage (Mom’s sustainable and eco green perspectiv), 2007-2009
NOTABLE PRESS/MEDIA
PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S: “50 Most Beautiful People”, 1994, 1999
LADIES HOME JOURNAL’S: “Most Important Women in America” 1999
BIOGRAPHY MAGAZINE’S: “25 Most Influential Women”, 1999
NOTORIOUS MAGAZINE’S: “Women We Love”, 1998
LADIES HOME JOURNAL’S: “Most Fascinating Women of the Year.” 1997
GLAMOUR MAGAZINE’S: “Women of the Year”, 1997
TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD: First full-figured model on a billboard in Times Square – Elisabeth, 1996
NOTABLE COMMITTEES
HHS OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL: WOMEN’S HEALTH AMBASSADOR, 2023 + 2024
COMMISSION MEMBER: Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Washington DC, 2011
NY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MEMBER OF THE CHILD PERFORMER ADVISORY BOARD: Department of Labor to Prevent Eating Disorders: New York State, (Now, Child Performer Coalition), 2009
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: First model ever to address the Senate Appropriations Committee on the dangers of eating disorders, arts in America, Healthy Media Imagery, 1995.
TOY
THE EMME COLLECTIBLE DOLL: “Doll of the Year” NY Post, sold out FAO Schwartz, first high fashion collectible doll sculpted in Emme’s size 16 likeness, Robert Tonner, 2001-2004