Newsweek Anorexia Cover - Too Glamorous or Too Average?
December 6th, 2005
Salon.com has an interesting collection of letters to the editor discussing the December 5, 2005 Newsweek cover story on anorexia. Some readers thought the cover photo was too glamorous, and the girl was too healthy looking, while others thought the article worked better because she looked like an average girl and not like Nicole Ritchie. Some excerpts:
We’ve all seen plenty of sensationalist pictures of emaciated sufferers - the Newsweek cover is revolutionary for its normality.
This is the kind of picture that we need to see; it is shocking because it isn’t shocking.
