Sorry...

As I have just said to all my magazine staff - sorry for being M.I.A recently! I've had exams (grrr....) and I'm just waiting on the marks... :S...

Anyways... I have a little announcement for you all, something, considering as it directly affects them I hope my magazine staff won't kill me for telling you guys all first!

Lipstick Royalty Magazine are launching a mini mag which is going to be part of the magazine each month. I had the idea for it when doing some campaign research! Its called Diamond Duchess Magazine (I know... what's this with me and the crazy names!) and its going to be headed up by Who Wants To Be A Size Zero campaign team member and Lipstick Royalty fashion editor Amy.

Diamond Duchess is going to be a woman's magazine like Cosmopolitan and Glamour and Company.. but with out what i call all the nasty bits, like diet pages! Its going to be a real magazine for real women who WANT to feel good in their own skin!

We're hoping to launch it in March on the Lipstick Royalty page but we can't do that until we get a creative Director, so if you know someone who has graphic design skills they'd like to lend to creating our layouts each month give us a buzz!

Just one last think, completely unrelated to the campaign but really really important to me! My writing group (which Amy and LR Arts Editor Lauren are also a member of) launched an Anthology of short stories last year, selling it in aid of the Laura Crane trust for teenage cancer. My short story 'Family' is published in there as well as some other pretty fantastic pieces of writing and I really recommend it as a great read! You can either download it as a PDF or buy it as a paperback here:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2619890

All proceeds go to charity! We've sold 51 copies so far and we'd love to sell lots more to be able to present a great big fat check to the charity!


Enjoy your weekend,

Rachel

Did you know?

In 1970 the average age of a girl who started dieting was 14; by 1990 the average dieting age fell to 8.

After viewing images of female fashion models, seven out of ten women felt more depressed and angry than prior to viewing the images.

Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents.

30% of women choose an ideal body shape that is 20% underweight with an additional 44% choosing an ideal body shape that is 10% underweight.

Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23% less.

Kate Moss is 5’7” tall and weighs 95 pounds; 30% below ideal body weight. Her fellow supermodels Niki Taylor and Elle Macpherson both meet the physical criteria for Anorexia.

In 1999 Gisele Bundchen was Vogue’s model of the year; the magazine stated that this was because she strayed from the rail-thin image. At the time Gisele was 5’11” and weighed only 115lbs, that’s 25% below her ideal body weight.

The average woman in the UK is 5’4” tall and weighs 140lbs. The average supermodel is 5’10” tall and weighs only 112lbs.

Special thanks to campaign team member Kee for finding these stats out!