Godfrey-June published a memoir, Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup in 2006 with Harmony that detailed her tenures at both Elle and Lucky magazine.
[1] Part of her time there would also be documented in Cat Marnell's memoir How To Murder Your Life , as Marnell worked for her shortly after the publication of Free Gift With Purchase from 2006 to 2009.
After Lucky magazine folded in 2015, Godfrey-June wrote a series of articles on beauty for Vanity Fair.
[2] Later that same year, she left behind magazine writing to work as beauty editor at Goop.
[3] Godfrey-June is the daughter of Alice Godfrey and American evolutionary biologist Ward Watt.