to hate Grazia magazine..yet buy it most weeks.....

[cocopear]

Its just so vacuous, every week it has a different diet plan in it, its obsessed with fawning over "celebs" , its fashion pages generally consist of items that cost more than most people earn in a week, its always featuring the latest "anti-aging" treatments (not just creams etc but medical treatments) as if women are nothing if they don't look 25 and god forbid we ever get old. I would say it seems to be targeted at women of 25+ yet every week they have a thing where they "style hunt" random girls in the street who they deem super-fashionable and imply this is what we should all be looking like/dressing like and usually these women are 18-21 and look like models. Oh and worse of all, it seems to try and be a "cut above" and more sophisticated than your downmarket weekly rags like heat, closer and their ilk, but really is pretty much the same when you look under the surface with its celeb-worshipping and thin-is-beautiful messages.

And why can't I resist buying it when I hate it so much

I love it personally.....

but I do agree its very looks/weight/celeb-obsessed etc, but all womens magazines are aren't they? It obviously sells magazines

We have a mantra, my sister and I...Sunday, Monday, Heatday, Wednesday, etc etc. Although I love it because it takes the mickey out of slebs and makes me laugh out loud sometimes - really not keen on Hello or Grazia that seem to hero worship them instead.

i love their headlines - usually around Jen or Angie, "e.g. Jens ivf heartbreak - which is usually loosely construed around the fact that she might want children! They have no shame in the way they recycle celebs on their cover!

My friend buys this mag and leaves it in her bathroom so the only time I ever see it is when I'm in there, on the loo.

I do think, that flicking through Grazia while on the toilet really makes you appreciate the satisfaction of a nice poo.

I also find the pictures of these women (who all look the same) wearing those sun glasses that look like they have a couple of wet tea bags plopped over their eyes.

I count up how many of them there are each issue!

LOL @ miggsie and the "satisfaction of a nice poo"

All 'women's' magazines are shite. Although I used to like 'Marie Claire' for it's interesting articles. I now only buy magazines which show me how to deal with various poultry problems

I don't know whether you're unreasonable or not but I do the same. In my defence, I find it very difficult to read a proper book with MN 2 pre-schoolers around.

I'm not going to buy it again though after that dreadful article about the woman who loved her baby more because he was beautiful (at age 18m) and how he was clearly going to have a more successful life than a run-of-the-mill ugly baby.

OOh I could have written than OP.

Bloody Mary Portas is in it every week.

They fawn over Taylor Momsen as a Courtney Love esque fashion icon (Taylor Momsen is a 15 year old kid out on the party scene, fgs, this is a magazine for 30 something women. And since when is Courtney Love someone you would want to emulate).

SAME OLD celebsin it week on week. If it aint Brangelina it's jennifer Anistion. If it's not her it's Cheryl Cole or Victoria Beckham.

The fashion is utter shite.

Still though I buy it every week. It's like my Sunday Times addiction.

I actually didn't mind Grazia when it first came out, but I stopped buying it because the fashion got increasingly clown-like and their OBSESSION with Jen and Angelina became too much.

Yep, you are right.

But I still buy it!

To be fair, I do like the fashion in it, and i think it strikes quite a good balance between high street and designer.

I am probably older than its 'core demographic' or whatever you call it, but I recently tried Woman and Home after a thread on here saying it was great for women of 35+ and wasn't boring at all, had been revamped/finger on the pulse etc. IT WAS DIRE. I may be 38, but I'm not dead yet, thank you.

lol at Woman and Home.

It always has a makeover in it of some 40 something and it makes her look worse.

Or is that Good Housekeeping? Either way I do not want to read a magazine which has reviews of breadmakers, thank you very much.

I tried Red but that pissed me off, as it was full of mummy entrepeneurs setting up vintage necklace from Burma businesses with their husband's money.

I don't give a shit about anything in Vogue.

Elle is mindless. Gave up reading Cosmo when i was 18. Everything else is rubbish.

Take a Break it is then!

I quite like 'She' as well - no cupcakes and bunting like Red, and without the multisqullion pound fashion of Marie Claire/Elle/Vogue.

In fact, I read LOTS of magazines (mainly on subscription as Xmas/birthday presents), and theres not many of them that don't actively annoy me in some way.

Does Grazia still have no page numbers?

I tried it a couple of times but gave up in frustration because of this. You could look at the contents page and see an article that might be interesting and it would tell you it was on page 39, say.

But then none of the actual pages had any numbers on. Not one! How mad is that?

About the only woman's magazine I buy regularly now is "The Lady".
[It is better since its re-vamp honestly! And I am very partial to trying to solve The Ladygram]

You are right and yet I still buy it.

The style hunt makes my mind boggle -I really don't think most of these women would survive outside of the capital cities, let alone be lauded as stylish!

Lowri Turner as social commentator/nutritionist I could live without too.

agree its ALWAYS jen or ange on front, why!!!

"Lowri Turner as social commentator/nutritionist I could live without too. " lolol

That woman is such a tool.

I am the same, I buy it but it makes me feel unclean afterwards.

One of the most ridiculous people they have featured in it is Tavi the 13 year old fashion blogger who all the designers are fawning over - she freaks me out slightly - here

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/20/tavi-gevinson-new-york-fashion

I used to live 'Eve', but then it vanished.

I used to love Grazia. I stopped buying it when they were wanking on and on and on about agnyness agiyness agynesAGNES DEAN; and everything being "bang on trend" and "cutting edge"

lolol at AGNES DEAN

I started to get really sick of it when they started banging on about how colours 'pop'

Pop off you twats.

"Hot off the catwalk this week is this fabulous pair of purple platforms! They are a little Pricey at £1,670.00 but the fashionista's agree that the colour really POPS! and they really are BANG ON TREND!"

Covers go in rotation - Jen, Angelina, Katie Holmes, Victoria Beckham, Jen...
At least they generally stick to "A" list rather than Big Brother people you've never heard of but have been weaning myself off it for a while now and only buy it if, like today, I have to go and sit waiting for something.

I love Grazia and buy it every week but laugh my arse off at the Style Hunter bit. These women look like they've got dressed in the dark - hilarious. I do remember, I think it was Grazia, that they had an article written by Peaches Fecking Geldof; as a 34 year old woman, forgive me if I don't give a crap what Peaches Geldof thinks.

The Lauren Laverne culture stuff is pretty good. Like many posters, the Jen/Ange/Cheryl obsession is bloody tedious.

There was a luxury clothes feature just before Christmas.

It featured a necklace by Solange Azagury-Partridge for £250K.

WE ARE IN A RECESSION YOU ARSEWIPES

I know that if I inherited squillions and actually wanted to buy this necklace, they would take one look at me at the Solange thingie shop and scoff at my polyester cleavage and not let me in.

LOL at Red, I used to like it too, but its SOOO cupcakes and bunting, all outdoor tables with cath kidston esque florals, artfully arranged flowers and wanky cakes!

I rarely get magazines anymore, but Grazie being cheap and quite glitzy does tend to get bought

otherwise its take a chavving break with photos of pitbill maulings