My Fridge, Myself

The refrigerator door offers entree into more than just your diet

Elizabeth Levine

Student, George Washington University

The items on the fridge in Levine's apartment, shared by Lauren Golden and Sara Nicholson, reflect the diversity of the college experience. "The target is Lauren's. Her father takes her to the shooting range for target practice, which I think is somewhat of a bonding activity," says Levine. The women stumbled upon the autographed photo of Condoleezza Rice in their apartment lobby. The list of nuclear fallout shelters was inspired by a homeless man who met Nicholson and "started rambling about a nuclear attack," Levine explains.

Nora Piroglu

Co-owner, Skin Beauty Lounge

Beauty is Piroglu's calling, but her fridge is "a mess, inside and out," she says. "I'm always running, eating standing up in front of it, and I've got my memo board there." Then there are mementos like the photo of her with Howard Stern. "He called me up out of the blue and asked me to do his show," she recalls. "I demonstrated the male bikini wax, actually, and had so much fun I've since been back three times." When the fridge got so covered that it barely opened, Piroglu decided to edit down.

"I found a 3-year-old calendar," she laughs.

Wendy Pepper

Fashion designer

We learned early on during the first season of "Project Runway," in which Pepper competed and became a finalist, that she is a mom first and a designer second. So it's fitting that her fridge serves as a shrine to her 8-year-old daughter, Finley, and showcases other cherished personal memories. "There's 27 things under each magnet, and stuff is always falling off. But I love everything on it -- like the picture of me in the newspaper from when I was, like, 4 . . . or the magnet my sister got me after my first divorce that says, 'Free at Last!'"

Jodi Walsh

Artist and art consultant