Episode 14, Season 2: The truth about magazines, with Terri Waters from The Unedit

Magazines often get the blame for making women feel insecure, promoting unrealistic body types and narrow beauty ideals, and not being inclusive in the bodies they present in their pages. But what’s it really like in 2019? And what’s it like to actually work on a high end fashion magazine?

Terri Waters is a fashion journalist who worked at multiple glossy magazines, before leaving the industry to set up independent body-positive publication The Unedit.

In this interview Terri talks candidly about what it’s like to work on these magazines behind-the-scenes, how it made her feel about her own body, some of the examples of airbrushing she personally witnessed, and what inspired The Unedit in the first place.

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Lottie’s TED Talk recommendations: Amy Tan’s TED talk – Where does creativity hide? https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_on_creativity?language=en | Cameron Russel’s TED talk – Looks aren’t everything, believe me I know – https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model?language=en | Elizabeth Gilbert shows up for… everything – a TED interview – https://www.ted.com/talks/the_ted_interview_elizabeth_gilbert_shows_up_for_everything?language=en

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The Unedit – https://www.the-unedit.com/ | The Unedit on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/theunedit/

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Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes