Knocked Up Celebs

The November 2009 issue of Teen Vogue is a little scandalous this time around. Let me tell you why. The girl on the left, Jourdan Dunn, is pregnant. You can’t tell she’s pregnant on the cover.  Now Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Amy Astley said they didn’t know of the pregnancy until after the shoot. And now has been forced to release a statement about the cover.

“Teen pregnancy is a difficult, real-life issue that Teen Vogue readers (with an average age of 18) are mature enough to be exposed to,” Astley said in a statement. “Teen Vogue felt it was important to support, not punish, Jourdan Dunn, who contributed to a beautiful photo shoot and who will surely have an ongoing and successful career in fashion.”

I really don’t blame them for saying that they did nothing wrong. It would be up to Jourdan to reveal that. It is raising issues all over the place saying it’s putting out the wrong message.

“All I could think about was what my mom was going to say, my agency, my boyfriend,” said Dunn, who is expecting a boy in December. “When I told my mom, she started crying and blaming herself. She got pregnant with me at the same age, and she said, ‘I don’t want you to have to go through what I did.’”

I think that it should be a non-issue if they didn’t know she was pregnant.  But with that being said  it happens  and it should be brought up to the teens that we are not perfect and things can happen like getting pregnant. Teen pregnancy happens..and how can we stop it if we never talk about it?

Photo Source: Teen Vogue

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