PAULINA SINGER Words by STACY MAGALLON Photos by CATHERINE POWELL
Actress Paulina Singer doesn’t like staying in one place for too long. She was born in Exeter, N.H. but moved six times within her time in the state. In 2009, Paulina moved to New York City. She lived in another six different neighborhoods (Harlem, Washington Heights, Bushwick, East New York, Bed-Stuy and South Slope) before claiming Williamsburg as her home. She spent that first year “fucking around” with her boyfriend who shared similar interests as her at the time – partying, friends and drugs. “We got drunk, did drugs, and went to parties for a whole year,” she recalls. A year later, Paulina was accepted into The New School in Greenwich Village. She was majoring in dance while taking psychology classes to pursue a career as a sex therapist. It didn’t take her long to realize it was pointless to pay an obscene amount of money for something she didn’t completely believe in. “It seemed like it was just socially acceptable to go to college after high school,” she says. “What’s socially acceptable about college?” Her mother and manager at the time agreed with 30