Adrienne Arieff is an entrepreneur and author of several books, including the controversial book The Sacred Thread.[1] She wrote The Sacred Thread after traveling to India and hiring a woman there to serve as a surrogate mother for her twin daughters that were conceived via in vitro fertilisation.[2][3] Arieff's positive treatment of surrogacy prompted debate over the ethical and legal status of paying poor women to serve as surrogate mothers.[4][5][6]
Arieff also co-wrote with Beverly West Fairy-Tale Success: A Guide to Entrepreneurial Magic which was released in October 2014.[7][8] The book is written as a manual for young women who want to run their own business.[9] Arieff founded her business, Arieff Communications, a San Francisco-based public relations and marketing firm, in 2002.[10]