Learning to be a girl through magazines

October 1999 cover with sixteen-year-old Leelee Sobieski

In 1998/1999 as i began to prepare myself for living as a woman. To that end i started trying to learn more about women's fashion, makeup etc form girls my age. So i turned to magazines like 17 and Teen Beat and 16. Magazines often read my teen girls (even though i was in my late teens by now.) Seventeen was great for fashion, makeup, hair, and dating tips. The others were more for the cute celebrity guys. One of my first celebrity crushes was Devon Sawa who was often featured in these magazines. I felt more and more like my journey to becoming a woman was underway.


















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