Alexandra Louise Kuczynski (born December 6, 1970) is a Peruvian American reporter, who has written for the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, and is the author of the award-winning 2006 book Beauty Junkies about the cosmetic surgery industry.
Kuczynski's paternal grandfather was physician specializing in tropical diseases Maxime Hans Kuczyński, a Jewish emigrant from Germany, who founded the first leper colony in South America.
[2] Her maternal uncle is novelist and translator John Casey and her paternal first cousin once removed is French film director and screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard.
On September 10, 2001, she was transferred by Howell Raines from media reporter to the style section, where Kuczynski would write "the sort of pop-feature pieces that would appeal to the Times national audience.
"[4] Under her byline, the word "horny" first appeared in the Times, in reference to a story about female Viagra; she later said, "I wear that as a badge of honor.