Everyone who appears on the cover of a magazine feels angst about how they look. As the editor of a magazine, I sympathise, I really do. Yet I also have to retain control of the cover, or put another way, the right to edit the magazine because if you show someone an image of themselves, they invariably want a different picture, cover line or, in most cases, more Photoshopping.
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Helen McCabe is editor-in-chief of the Australian Women’s Weekly.
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