Jezebel: Seventeen

Freshmen 15 Doesn't Exist, Was Invented By Seventeen

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:51:00 EDT

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Young people are now free to pursue a higher education without suffering from the crippling fear that they might gain a little weight. Researchers have proven that most college students don't gain the "Freshmen 15" — and that Seventeen is not your cool older sister. The magazine is more like the obnoxious older sister who declares "a moment on the lips, forever on the hips!" while you're trying to enjoy a doughnut in peace. More »

Oprah's Network Inspired By Seventeen

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:46:00 EST

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Spotted by Girl With A Satchel: In the January issue of O, Oprah reveals OWN is her grownup take on Seventeen. Dr. Phil's all to eager to explain why boys aren't asking us out, but where's the show about traumaramas? More »

The New Sassy? Hardly

Anna North — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:26:00 EDT

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The new online magazine Hardly aims to be the next Sassy — but can that mag's marked-up Chuck Taylors really be filled? More »

Rihanna's Radiant On The Cover Of Seventeen

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:25:00 EDT

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She was sullen and Photoshopped for Elle, but on August's Seventeen, RiRi is smiling and gorgeous. Additional images below! [The Life Files, Seventeen] More »

Seventeen Project Teen Finds Hope Online

Anna North — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:40:00 EDT

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Earlier this month, we wrote about eighteen-year-old Jamie Keiles's project — following all the advice in the June/July Seventeen. Now she's done — and we chatted with her about makeup, advertorials, and how the Internet gives her hope. More »

"Teenom" Girls Convince Us That The Kids Are All Right

Anna North — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Jamie Keiles is following all the advice in Seventeen magazine, and she's doing so in a hilarious and critical way. She and a crop of other teen phenoms — teenoms — are giving us hope for the younger generation. More »

Breaking: Next Top Model Will Get A Major Upgrade

Irin Carmon — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:40:55 EDT

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This changes everything. Do we know Franca Sozzani's stance on smizing? [Twitter] More »

Hideous Dresses & Possible Deflowering: Seventeen Goes To The Prom

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:20:00 EST

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Was your prom dress ugly and embarrassing? Judging from Seventeen Prom, girls today have it even worse. Maybe teens don't mind wearing grotesque gowns anyhow — judging from the advertising, prom is really about what happens when the dress comes off. More »

Photoshop Of Horrors Hall Of Shame, 2000-2009

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Slimmed thighs, whittled waists, smoothed skin: Digitally altered women were de rigueur in the 00s. There were many, many Photoshop Of Horrors images to choose from, but these are the 15 most egregious examples of image retouching in this decade. More »

Awkward Moment On Morning TV

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:40:00 EDT

At left: Seventeen editor Ann Shoket. At right: NBC medical analyst Dr. Nancy Snyderman. At issue: Girls who cut. More »

You Wanna Be On Top On The Back

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

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There's a neon color in use that my scanner won't pick up, but this is ANTM winner Teyona on the (back) cover of Seventeen. Thoughts? A few images from the interior shoot after the jump. More »

Burning Questions

Sadie Stein — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:45:00 EDT

Both Seventeen and CosmoGirl's web sites have added "advice" programs, in which you can ask your fellow readers questions like "What age do most have their first kiss?" Wisdom of the crowds? "It depends." [AdAge] More »

Seventeen Gives Girls A Head Start At Controlling Their Guys

Anna North — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

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Does your boyfriend have "puffy clown hair" or "a lazy fashion sense"? Then check out Seventeen's gallery of made-over boyfriends, guys successfully transformed into men worthy of their girlfriends' love. More »

What's The Right Punishment For Teen "Sexting"?

Anna North — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST

This month's Seventeen tells the story of Brooke, a high school student whose naked cell phone photo got her kicked off the cheerleading squad. More »

Did The Top Model Winner Get Shafted?

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:45:00 EST

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Seventeen's February issue has America's Next Top Model winner McKey inside, but she didn't exactly get the cover: She appears on the back; Pink is on the front. Click to enlarge and see more! More »

Jennifer Hudson Smiles… In Gap Ads

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

Despite mourning her family tragedy, Jennifer Hudson is in the Gap's holiday ad campaign, wearing a bright red sweater and smiling. Gap gave J.Hud the option to back out, but she wanted to go ahead and have the ads run. [Yahoo News via E!]
Jennifer Hudson writes on her MySpace blog: "I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Thank You All." [People]
Beyoncé is on the cover of Seventeen and she certainly appears to have her wits about her. She says she would never get married before the age of 25. "I feel like you have to get to know yourself, know what you want, spend some time by yourself, and be proud of who you are before you can share that with someone else." Plus! She's super critical of herself: "I have my YouTube days, when I watch every performance," she says. "I listen to my music, and I watch my videos to figure out what I need to do, what I need to fix, and how to become a better singer." [People]
Kate Winslet on her Vanity Fair pix: "The whole shoot was about doing the character. I feel like I was playing the part and not me — it doesn't feel like me. It took six hours to set up the lighting and the hair and make-up, because I obviously don't look like that all the time." [Daily Mail]
The brother of the American Idol reject who killed herself outside the star's L.A. home is blaming Abdul for crushing his sister's dreams. "[Abdul] didn't speak up for her. She let everyone take her down," Charles McIntyre says. [NY Post]

Ask Not What Bristol Palin Can Do For You, Ask What Sarah Palin Can Do For Your Pregnant Daughter

Jessica G. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT

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It's been about 48 hours since Bristol Palin's pregnancy was announced, and pundits of all stripes have weighed in on the significance of a single, underage, fertile female. In the Washington Post, columnist Courtland Milloy writes, "We are ambivalent about what to do once a girl becomes pregnant. But once that choice is made — and it is a personal choice — what the girl needs most is love and support. If the public can't offer that to Bristol, the least we can do is leave her alone." No, Courtland. The least the public can do is take Bristol's mother to task for not supporting teen pregnancies that occur outside her immediate family. More »

This Week We Defended Fashion And Dismissed Deluded Ladymags

Jessica G. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Sadie defended fashion from hateful Wintourish anti-heroes.
We told Seventeen's constructive criticism and eyeshadow advice to suck it.
Women's magazines "saved" Cathy Alter's life.
But not ours.
Dodai revealed her secret passion for juniors fashion..

“It's Fun To Be Seventeen", Unless, Of Course, You're Seventeen

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

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It's been a while since I've read Seventeen, but I assumed not much would have changed. Through the ages, teen girls have always needed the magazine to rehash the same stories about which jeans look best on "curvy" figures and assuage their fears about vaginal odor. But this wise "older sister" has turned abusive of late. Even though makeup, boys, and eating disorders are still the topics at hand, the August issue has a pretty relentless message of "everyone is judging you constantly, so listen to us or suffer the consequences." After the jump, a guide to the panic attack-inducing world of the adolescent female, as seen through the eyes of Seventeen editors. More »

MagHag

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EDT

Is Blake Lively unhappy about her Seventeen cover? According to the New York Post, her "camp" is "not thrilled." Why ever not? Gotta love the huge smile, really windswept tresses and "perfect hair" cover line. (Was the photo studio in a wind tunnel?) [Page Six] More »

Cosmo Girl Has The Spiciest — And Smartest — Advice When It Comes To Teen Sex

Jessica G. — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

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Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex." (Because if they don't read the magazine, their questions will magically disappear, right?) Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told a government inquiry, "We see it as a service. It's our responsibility to provide the correct information rather than them (readers) saying to their 15-year-old friend, 'my boyfriend wants me to do this, how do I deal with it?'" We decided to see what kind of advice the American teen magazines are giving their readership. A look at sex coverage on the websites of Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM and Seventeen, after the jump. More »

Heroes' Hayden Panettiere Is An American Everywoman

Anna Holmes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST

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Even though Hayden Panettiere turned 18 last August, we're wondering, is the Heroes starlet a teenager or an adult? We ask only because Hayden is on the cover of three different Hearst girly magazines for April 2008: There's Cosmopolitan ("Fun • Fearless • Female"), which, according to demographics, has a medium reader age of 31.5. But Hayden is also on the cover of Seventeen ("It's Fun To Be Seventeen" — median reader age, 16.5), and that magazine's seasonal spin-off, Seventeen Prom (median age, um, Jessica McClintock?). Are we supposed to believe that both high school sophomores and career women in their thirties want to buy into what Hayden — and Hearst — is selling?* After the jump, we take a closer look at the differences in how Hayden is presented to the ladymag-loving public. More »

ANTM Winner Saleisha's Seventeen Cover And Spread

Slut Machine — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:15:00 EST

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Cosmo Editor: "My Sense Of A Good Cover Is If I Want To Lick It"

dodai — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST

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A thorough piece in today's WWD is chock-full of juicy nuggets about how magazine editors create a cover that will inspire you, a potential reader, to spend your hard-earned cash on their efforts. In the '80s, Dick Stolley, founding editor of People, created "Stolley's Law Of Covers", which you already know, even if you don't know you know: "Young is better than old. Pretty is better than ugly. Rich is better than poor. Movies are better than music. Music is better than television. Television is better than sports... And anything is better than politics." Kind of like looking for a date! Of course, what works for each magazine is slightly different. For Cosmopolitan, the young lady on the cover had better get "the girls" out. "It's not about big breasts like it used to be. It's just about showing off your breasts, whether they're double As or whatever," says editor in chief Kate White. Hear that, IBTC? You, too, can be on Cosmo! (And if you look at a gallery of Cosmo covers, and you'll see almost all of the women are touching one thigh, directing attention "down there." My crotch! Let me show you it!) More »

Oh, prom hair! So much fun! I, for one,...

Jennifer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:45:00 EDT

Oh, prom hair! So much fun! I, for one, though I was too cool for my suburban Southern public high school when I opted for a vintage Art Deco dress and marcelled hair (embarrassing photo after the jump). But most gals, lets face it, go for big hair. Really big hair. And according to a little unscientific research done by Fashion Week Daily, Seventeen editor-in-chief Ann Shoket had the biggest hair of all the editors-in-chief the website could wrangle. (See photo at left.) [Fashion Week Daily] More »

Atoosa Rubenstein: Don't You Just Hang On Her Every Word?

Moe — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:30:17 EDT

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Atoosa Rubenstein. Have you been DYING to know what's going on with everyone's fave "Alpha Kitty" her since she broke free from the confines of her job editing Seventeen and went feral?? Well, surely you know some disenfranchised teen with a big dream who has been DYING to know what she's got up her poufy sleeve. Right? She's big with the teens! Right? She had that whole MTV show , yes? "I left [Seventeen] because I realized that I was stepping farther and farther away from the journey that was meaningful to me," she says. Well, um, the New York Times exposes her New Media plan for conquering the girliverse and it... involves drag queens! Drag queens are hot right now, right? More »

Friends Of 'Vogue': Too Emaciated And Weak To Hand-Carry Their Own Copies?

Jennifer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:30:00 EDT

Would you like a limited-edition carrying case with your ninety-pound September Vogue? Yeah, sorry, you only get one of you're an "FOV" — which we think is sort of like being an "SOB." [The Fashion Informer]

'Justine' Magazine: Just Because We Haven't Heard Of It Doesn't Mean It Can't Rot Tween Souls

Jennifer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:30:00 EDT

Just because we've never heard of teen magazine Justine before doesn't mean that we didn't want to learn all sorts of things about it from the good peeps at MediaPost's 'Magazine Rack'. After all, we were once teenage girls. And while our parents made YM forbidden — they said it was demeaning to women — we did pore over many a Seventeen. Which we think we stopped reading by the time we were, oh, 13? [What about 'Sassy'? -Ed.] Anyway, the times haven't changed much. In fact, if anything, the current crop of teen mags is even worse than the ones from the mid-80s, as everything one needs to know about Justine can be wrapped up in one terse statement:

[C]rap transcends generational differences

Now That Sarah Silverman Is On Gap's Payroll, You 'Really' Won't Be Able To Resist Those Khakis...

Jennifer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:49:41 EDT

Sarah Silverman is going to be in ads for The Gap. What are the odds this genius plan was hatched in a corporate marketing meeting during which someone employed the term "edgy"? [WWD, sub req'd]

Tom Ford Knows All The Words To "Last Dance"

Jennifer — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:17:48 EDT

Don't be deceived by Tom Ford's manivorous, cooler-than-thou 'tude: The guy had no friends in college and loves Donna Summers. [Vogue UK]