Last month’s issue of Teen Vogue pretended to make history with two bi-racial models on the cover. How forward thinking and progressive Teen Vogue is! (Not at all like their sister mag French Vogue, which had model Lara Stone in blackface last month.)
But controversy arose because one of the young models, nineteen-year-old Jourdan Dunn, is pregnant! And African-American!
Surely she can’t be a good role model for young Teen Vogue readers, at least according to one of those crazy Family Value League people quoted in the Associated Press.
But as women at The Frisky and Feministing have pointed out, it’s totally fine when Jamie Lynn Spears or Bristol Palin or any other Hollywood teen parent gets a huge cover spread in People, since America cares about celebrities’ babies and magazines will spend insane amounts of money to get the first pics of these young girls and their new tots.
But Jourdan isn’t a celebrity, and she isn’t white, so when she gets a Teen Vogue cover, she’s sending a “bad message” and is “a terrible role model for teenagers.” Riiiiight.
