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

Did you ever read that article she wrote about not connecting with her dual heritage child?

Vile woman.

i like it
but only buy it occasionally

it HAS got more grown up recently.
and @janegrazia is lovely on twitter

Why is Lowri Iturner a twat? (Honestly want to know)

for getting out
going down!

for travel

Here's some of the magazines I get. A bit more intersting tha celebs, diets and clothes that would make a clown look silly.

Aw, come on, how can you slate Grazia? It's just what you need after a day at work/running around after the kids - the clothes just look so lovely on those glossy pages. I do have a kind of love-hate with the sleb stuff - Lol at 'Jen's IVF Heartbreak' - I always loved the 'Jen on phone to Brad' obsession a few months ago - she was never off it! The fashion features also make me laugh - everything is 'so on trend' - where did that phrase come from? what happened to 'in fashion'? What I love about Grazia tho is that it gives me my weekly dose of gossip, news, fashion, beauty and slebspotting and opinions all rolled into one. No need for anything else, when you get your Tuesday Grazia.

That's GRAZIA! Out every TUESDAY FOLKS!!

millyvanilly - i reckon you work for them

;)

feck off milly

lolol Milly you daft apeth

I love you Shirley you always make me lauhg.

I think Grazia's got worse over thelast year or so. But I do love the blatant liar/goldfish memory combination:

Wk 1: 'A close friend reveals Jen's heartache over Brad's 'rock solid marriage'
Wk 2: 'Concerned friends worry for Angelina's sanity as Brad leaves her'
Wk. 3: 'Katie Holmes has a "huge baby bump" according to close friends (accompanied by picture of size 6 woman slouching a little).
Wk. 4 'Loved-up Brangelina: friends say they expect a new arrival soon'
Wk 5: ' "I saw Jen and Brad on a secret date" says friend.

And on, and on. I just wait for 'Jen and Angelina in lesbian engagement - Brad's heartbreak'.

YABU. There are so many other magazines, books and newspapers that you might enjoy more

ooooo rachel you norty

I like Grazia and read avidly at docs/cafe/hairdresser but VERY rarely buy 'em now
(my publications allowance has been moved to cbeebies )
I will occasionally treat myself to the guilty pleasure of a sleb wedding ishoo of hello/ok and if there's a gift with Grazia then that too but otherwise = they take such a short time to read, I'd rather buy something for DS or property porn tbh.[sad but true]

I love it too Rachel but even I will admit that the magazine would be head and shoulders better without Mary Portas. She is not a fashion inspiration to me, she just looks like a (ahem) 'mature' lady who throws a few designer bits together! Next she will be accessorising with a zimmer and they will be telling us she is 'bang on trend'!

littlereddragon

I thick you'll findvi liked it rach

I thick you'll findvi liked it rach

I get:

Fortean Times - ghosts/aliens/quantum physics/weird shit

That's Life - tragedy and gives you a sense of superiority to those whose stories appear in it

Steal a look at Viz - it really makes me weep with laughter at times but it is full of porno ads etc so I feel I can't financially contribute towards it sadly

Used to get Marie Claire a long time ago when it was good. Now it is full of slebs and shopping so I don't buy it any more.

No women's magazines are good for the soul. They all make you feel crap/ugly/inadequate. I used to read loads of them in my twenties. Now I am nearing my fabulous forties and am too feminist to go near that pile of shite. Get a good book instead!

YADNBU- I agree with all the Mary Portas-Lowri Turner- Taylor Momsen comments. I used to be a fan, but I think the only reason to buy it these days is the lovely paper they print it on. But am not sure how much longer that can keep me interested!

I buy it because it's cheap and I get seduced by the pics on the front. Also despite being a month off 40, I could just about imagine myself wearing some of the things they advertise.

I wouldn't say they have an obsession with certain celebrities, more that if they have the same high profile faces regularly, it makes a strong brand identity thus keeping the readership loyal.

shirle Lowri turner and her bloody angst about having a child with a different skin tone - fuck off (not you Shirley). Dont silently muse on the temporary strangeness of having a brown child when you are pale - no write a big ol article about it for your child to read in a few years time.

Still at least it paid your mortgage that month

And dont let me get on to her views of the middle classes as an oppressed minority.

Back to Grazia. I used to buy it cos it was cheap and I like frocks. Then they printed a bloody awful picture of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It showed people scavenging in shops (who wouldnt) and the strapline was dreadful. Calling the poor people looters and animals. I complained and got a snitty reply (could just imagine the bubble head to wrote it).

A couple of weeks later it started to come out how the people had been pretty much abandoned to their fate. Strangely there was no retraction in the magazine or apology to me

I wish they would try and be clever.

I used to really like Grazia, but became strangely annoyed by the issue where they promised me that Florence Welch was going to dance on the cover. I spent flipping ages messing with my mobile phone and those silly black ad white shapes that were all over the magazine - did the cover move? Did Flo dance for me? No. I got a link to a film clip on my mobile. Humph.

And no, I don't 'Rock' my clothes, thank-you, I 'wear' them.

And married to the fashion editor or not, being 'good' with shops, does not make you 'good' at dispensing wisdom about life.

And yes, I really actually did think the cover would move

I used to buy Grazia until 1 week it featured a "fair trade" (or fashion equivalent) t-shirt. It was a plain white t-shirt that was on sale for over £100. The little write up stated that the person who made this t-shirt would receive a decent payment for each 1 made and wasn't it wonderful that we could make sure this happened?

I emailed them to ask exactly how much of the money would go to the exact person who was making them, as I had my suspicions that actually it wasn't alot of the RRP of the t-shirt. Unsuprisingly the email wasn't printed and they never answered my question.

Oh and now I get a copy off my sister each week so my conscience is clear