An Analysis of An Image OK USA

This OK! Magazine cover features three teen moms with the headline "Nastiest Fights Ever!" Each mom has a look of pure disgust plastered on her face. Why? No reasons other than rumors and drama of course. The fiery topics underneath the photo reveal a bit of the story to come. Who is going to read this magazine? Without a doubt, viewers of the hit show. These viewers crave the drama of the teen moms, always curious about who got dumped or committed such and such a crime. So, when the cover depicts these mom’s facial expressions the way OK!  does and adds in the current topics of drama, they are setting the teen viewers up to open the magazine and find out what juicy drama awaits inside. The magazine’s marketing technique is clearly drama. The girl who looks at the cover of this magazine is going to wonder, “Why does Jenelle look so shocked?” and “Why do Farrah and Maci look so angry?” Each of these moms has a story of their own. Farrah, Maci, and Janelle each have something personal going on and their facial expressions give way to a wide range of girls with crazy imaginations. A reader sees this cover and a thousand potential scenarios run through that reader’s mind. What does this say as a whole? A bunch of teens thrive off these dramatic stories of teen mothers. Society, with the help of this TV show and magazine covers like this one, has made teen pregnancy acceptable. The girls on this show are being so negatively exploited. Their lives are going so far south and all society does is exploit them even further, publishing these rumors and greedily feeding off of them. With conformity steadily increasing, many teens now face unwanted pregnancy or even planned pregnancy at an age that is normally still considered adolescent. Some readers could consider this article a promotion for teen pregnancy. These three women are getting so much publicity. Their young pregnancies have made them into quite the celebrities. So, teen girls read this article and thrive for the attention that these other young women are receiving. Attention isn’t always a positive thing, as this article proves, the publicity of these women’s lives is making them go even more downhill.

 "Teen Mom." OK! Magazine. 3 9 2012: cover. Web. 10 Sep. 2012. <http://www.teenmomjunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ok-magazine-rumors.jpg>.