Shape Magazine helps women develop a healthy lifestyle to last a lifetime;

Upbeat, lively and truthful, Shape gives you instantly useful techniques to make exercise and fitness more varied and fun, helps you trim the fat, and keeps today's woman challenged and motivated to look and feel her best. With each issue of Shape Magazine also comes great recipes, fashion tips, horoscopes, and beauty advice.


Sections within the magazine include Features & Cover Stories, Shape Your Life, Look Great, Live Healthy, Get Fit, Eat Right, You In Shape, and In Every Issue, which includes From the Editor’s Desk, Contributors, Readers Speak Out, The Hot List, and Fit & Famous. Every issue of Shape magazine includes the latest health, exercise, and nutrition news. Shape provides nutrition advice, as well as recipes. They provide new exercise routines and tips monthly.


Shape embraces a healthy lifestyle, which is represented through their cover models. Previous cover models include Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Osbourne and Jillian Michaels. The “Up Close With” section provides an interview with the cover model and they provide their advice on how to live a healthy lifestyle. 2015 January issue presents Jada Pinkett Smith, showing major skin for Shape magazine! The 43-year-old actress puts her amazing body on display for the magazine's cover. Inside, Pinkett Smith talks about her fitness motivation. It turns out, it's her husband, Will Smith!


At the back of the magazine there is the “Fit & Famous” section where Shape interviews a celebrity who provides more tips on how to lead a more long, happy and confident life.


The “Readers Speak Out” and “You Asked” sections allow for Shape readers to make comments about previous issues and ask the contributors questions regarding fitness, nutrition and health. Shape contributors include medical doctors, registered dieticians, personal trainers, and other professional (PhD). Cynthia Sass, M.P.H., R.D. is a contributing editor who provides Shape’s nutritional advice. Doctor Oz, M.D. has previously provided contributions to the magazine as well. There are various other contributors depending on the topic/specialty.


The “Success Stories” section provides diet and exercise tips that have worked for other readers during their weight loss experience. Furthermore, the “Weight Loss Diary” section follows an average woman on her weight loss journey. In combination, these two sections provide real life tips that work for different body and lifestyle types to readers who are also on their weight loss journey. Other topics include sex, mind/spirit, beauty, travel, fashion, work, home and style.

Cosmopolitan 

The best-selling young women's magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine helps women achieve their personal and professional goals. Each issue offers advice on interpersonal relationships, fashion and beauty tips, insights into the working world for women, information on eating healthy and exercising right, and articles on how to balance a busy schedule and reduce stress. Cosmo's credo is to help young, ambitious, and fearless women get the most out of their lives.

Marc Jacobs has released his spring/summer 2015 campaign yesterday, confirming a lineup of nine lucky models: a mix of well-established names like Karlie Kloss and Joan Smalls and fresh faces like Kendall Jenner (pictured above). It's Kendall's first campaign for the label, and only her second major campaign period — though it's her third time working with Marc Jacobs, having walked in his last two runway shows. As with many of her gigs, Kendall will likely be sending some thanks and flowers to stylist Katie Grand, her fashion fairy godmother/stunt queen, who served as the shoot's editor.

Still though, that wig.  You win some, you lose some.

Article by Alex Rees

How JPS Stays Fit?:
Find out how the actress maintains her tight, toned body—plus, how she keeps the romance alive with Will after 18 years of marriage.

Jada Pinkett Smith may be tiny (she clocks in at just 5 feet and weighs 108 pounds), but the actress claims to never actually feel petite—an attribute that helps her command presence in her role as a kick-ass Mob boss on Gotham. Read Full Article
As for her fitness motivation? "Well, I love when Will looks at me and says, 'You look so freaking good!' When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off of me? That's amazing.”

Flash 2A View Moment:
Frankie Goes to Hollywood;


On the back of an enormous publicity campaign, Frankie Goes to Hollywood dominated British music in 1984. Frankie's dance-pop borrowed heavily from the then-current Hi-NRG movement, adding a slick pop sensibility and production. What really distinguished the group was not their music, but their marketing campaign. With a series of slogans, T-shirts, and homoerotic videos, the band caused enormous controversy in England and managed to create some sensations in the United States. However, the Frankie sensation was finished as soon as it was started; by the release of their second album, Liverpool, in 1986, the group's audience had virtually disappeared.


 On this day in music, provides information on musicians who where born on this day, like recordings, gigs, deaths, chart positions and significant events.

Remember; the world is yours, 
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney

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