Merle Ginsberg is a fashion editor, blogger and television personality. She served as a judge on the first and second seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race (2009/2010) and also appeared on Bravo's Launch My Line (2009) as a contestant, finishing as the runner-up. Furthermore, Ginsberg is known for co-writing Paris Hilton's New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, which was published in May 2004.