Overview

• She relies primarily on earnings from her novels and occasional Instagram ads to cover rent and bills
• After eight years in Los Angeles, O’Porter and her family moved to London last summer following active-shooter alerts near her children’s school
• She struggled to regain TV and journalism roles upon returning, including being dropped by Stylist magazine and seeing production offers dry up
• A 2013 two-book deal led to her debut novel Paper Aeroplanes and established her as a bestselling young-adult author
• Despite her marriage to actor Chris O’Dowd, O’Porter rejects the celebrity label and defines herself primarily as an artist