What REAL girls are all about
Pros:
Self Esteem Booster
Cons:
Not very much
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Author's Review
Yes I admit that the slogan "Dare to Be Real" is a little bit corny but it has truth to it. If you look inside the pages of a Teen People or a Seventeen, all you see is pictures of emaciated 16 year old models, articles on how to loose weight, and tips on how to get and keep a boyfriend. No wonder an alarming number of girls in this country have such low self-esteem and weight problems.
They think that they should be the girls within those pages and follow every tip column in the magazine in order to be beautiful. None of those magazines even remotely tries to evoke a sense of self love in its readers. I find that horrible.
Then I picked up Jump. I thought, Oh god, another esteem killer! But when I looked at the articles and the type of people that were featured in them, I went and bought 5 copies to give to my friends. I was so happy to find a teen magazine that would encourage teenage girls to be the best that they could be and not what some magazine said that they could be.
They have articles about girls who are athletes, how to tone the body and stay healthy, and they feature normal sized girls as models. These girls are real. Not the fake ones in Seventeen or Vogue. Hence the slogan "Dare to Be Real". When other teens see that, they say to themselves, I can do that too, and they start to appreciate themselves more as they already are.
This is the type of magazine that should be in every female teenager's room. I give Jump an A++.
Angel
