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Because the advertisers in such magazines are selling that "you too can look like that" if you buy our clothes / make-up / smell / exercise video / diet food or whatever.

achompas on Nov 11, 2010 [–]

Exactly. Those Cosmo covers play off insecurities and get women to spend money on advertised products.

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