womens magazine 'shock' stories are they really real ?

[romeolovedjulliet]

such thrilling titles like 'he shagged my mum then killed our neighbour' 'he raped me, i had quads but i love him' and such rubbish. the mags really have gone down the last upteen years judging by the titles. if this shit was written on here ifwould get deleted as troll fodder.
aibu to think this way ?

A friend of mine sold her story to a magazine when she was desperate for cash. Hers was very sad and very real :(

They're also really obsessed with psychics and past life stuff. There are loads of people who will write in saying things like 'Dear Jenny, I get headaches a lot, why is this?' and Jenny or whoever will say 'well you were a caveman in a past life and you got boinked over the head with a club and that's why you get headaches'.

I’ll just put this here:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/hilarywardle/21-headlines-that-prove-take-a-break-is-the-worl-aplm

I used to love reading Bella in the late 80s- my mum used to buy it and was fine with me reading it- bit shocking really as I was only 10 and there were lots of really traumatic domestic abuse stories, murders, rapes etc ... saying thT we were allowed to watch crime watch and kathys rape storyline in eastenders - I'd never let my 11 year old watch or read any of that kind of thing !
I used to like the makeovers as well which always seemed to involve a princess di haircut

I'd love to get my 'gaps ' in my teeth sorted out with implants : I did look into it late last year , but 4 k for both was a huge amount to find and the actual process is long and quite complex.
You have to go back and forth a few times and if I had gone ahead it would have been held up by COVID I guess!
Not to be.

Dear Jenny, I get headaches a lot, why is this? Well you were a caveman in your past life and got bonked on the head. Haha that made me laugh

Or you get the absurdly vague psychics that are in touch with a "an elderly lady wearing something green who used to work somewhere". And the reader is delighted saying "thanks Jenny that'll be my late auntie Pat. She had a green scarf and worked in Asda. I'm amazed!

I only ever read TAB when someone leaves a copy in the staff room at work. There’s only one story that I remember anything about, and it was a woman who said she’d gone out to buy cat food and was kidnapped off the street by 2 Czech men. I think it stuck with me because it was something that really worried me as a teenager. And possibly because the photo was of her holding up a tin of Felix and looking terrified.

I just googled it, and there’s just a Mirror article about it, the men’s names don’t bring up any other news. And rereading it has been strange- she disappeared for 4 days and her fiancé thought she’d just run off with an ex. www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-was-kidnapped-by-a-sex-gang-as-i-walked-to-the-shop-815838.amp

They are mostly true with some sensation chucked in.
Also idmf there us some shagging involved it always us referred to as romping.
Always gives me a chuckle!

My friend sold a story to Take a Break (or similar mag) a good few years ago now and got £50 for it. Hers was a nice story about how she met her hubby.

I've got a bit if a drama going on in mynlife st the moment involving my now ex husbands mistress, I'm tempted to make a few quid.

Not a mag sell out but an ex friend of a friend sold her story to the Daily Mail. It was a good'un but I think she's a bit more aspirational than TaB etc. She's got good teeth. All of them.

She is also a CF and we're worried she might not be too well; her answer to any drama (which she also likes to stir) is to sell it to the DM.

I've just remembered a friend of mine did one! She'd had a multiple multiple pregnancy with many complications that she wanted to raise awareness of. Made her sound thick as mince despite her being highly intelligent. We all giggled as did she. No harm done and awareness raised but why did they have to uber dumb it down. Surely not everyone is THAT dumb??

Giving birth is always “In time, I pushed my baby out into the world”. Always. It’s the rules.

Two friends of mine have been in these rags. The first one actually got over £1000 because it was a dramatic story. Of course, they completely focused on the fact it happened while they were shagging and the entire story sounded utterly ridiculous when they read it back.

Someone else I know lost about half her body weight and got in a whole bunch of magazines. Not really a very interesting story so they focused on the fact some bloke in a van had called her fat once and made it sound like she was constantly verbally abused.

Me and my uni mates used to send in fake tips to these magazines too. We used to make up ridiculous shit and send it in with a photo taken on a mid-00s flipphone in our grotty student houses. And they actually printed a few! Nice £30 cheque each time to spend on weed and lambrini.

Someone from the year above me at school was in one once because she’d had a baby with a man who’d had seven kids with seven different women.

The story of seven children with different people! How these men lead double lives I don't know. They must have terrific memories and a string of lies and stories lined up to explain their absences.
I've never read of a woman managing to do this , but I guess that someone somewhere female has done it ! I would think a woman would be found out quicker though!