Teen Vogue or any other magizine company should never put any one pregnant on thir cover unless they are married

Tempest in a teapot?
Why should the magazine be held responsible for something of which they had no prior knowledge. What I see are two models, making a living, looking like normal teens (even if they are at the top edge of that age classification), neither looking pregnant. So one of the models is pregnant at 19 with a high-paying modeling career and a lot of choices before her.

Teens get pregnant. They often get pregnant before they are married. It happens. Should she be a role model? Well, in this case, if she can teach all pregnant teens to earn 6 figure incomes before they become pregnant and have to support a baby on their own, I'm all for her being a role model. But I have to ask: At what point did being a fashion model morph into be a role model? Seeing someone on a magazine cover and wanting to *look* like her/him does not mean you want to make the same choices about your life as she/he might.

The model in question is a human being, making a living. Her mode of making a living just happens to be in the public eye. She didn't disclose her "medical" condition to the magazine because, frankly, it has made no impact on her career yet and it was nobody's business. We don't know the basis of her decisions or even if she consciously made a decision to become pregnant. Her reasons are her own, and at 19, she is certainly old enough to make her own choices and deal with the consequences.

This is a non-issue being publicized to sell more magazines, in my opinion. If fate throws the magazine business lemons, they are all for making lemonade. As it's been said: there's no such thing as *bad* publicity.

Jourdan Dunn is the girl in question. The truth is that Teen Vogue say they didn't know that Jourdan was pregnant and therefore I think we need to accept their explanation.

I am concerned what effect a pregnant unmarried teenage mother would have on her peer group but i'm sure readers of Teen Vogue have already heard worse sadly!

If Teen Vogue had known about the pregnancy then I would have said this was wrong.

I think if Teen Vogue was not aware of the model’s pregnancy, it would be wrong to look down upon the magazine’s choice of cover girl. How many women are pregnant each year while working their regular 9-5 jobs without telling their bosses until they absolutely have to. Since the model is already 19 years old, she is an adult and should not be judged by the public or the magazine’s young reader population about her pregnancy. Who knows, she may have opted to become pregnant at her age and she may be in a financially secure-enough position to support a child and start a family of her own. Just because Teen Vogue placed (without their prior knowledge) a pregnant woman in her late-teens on their cover does not mean they condone or encourage teenage pregnancies. Neither does it mean that teen readers should go out and get pregnant, even if they have the financial means or emotional support from their boyfriend, or even parents. Additionally, many people often do forget that teen pregnancy does happen and early unintended pregnancy is part of many teenage lives. Seeing a beautiful, successful woman who is in the same situation, may help other teenage girls not feel as hopeless when they find that it can happen to just about anyone.

I'm sort of with @dtrivera here, in that she is a legal adult, so I don't feel there's much to worry about on that end. Whether the pregnancy was planned or unplanned is not really important, and if they didn't KNOW she was pregnant, than she clearly wasn't showing enough yet that anyone else would know it from the photo. Would it have been any different if she had done the photoshoot and then got pregnant three months later?

It makes me wonder about these teen actors, singers, models, and other celebrities. Do we, as the viewing public, really put undo pressures on them to expect them to be more than the normal teens they are?

Teenpregnancy.org is run by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, and their website says there are: "750,000 teen pregnancies annually. Eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended and 81 percent are to unmarried teens."

so with that many per year in the US, is it any wonder that a celebrity might become pregnant too, unintended?

I think the important thing here that everyone is probably thinking is whether or not some teen girl will think it's okay to go get pregnant because her idol did.

I just don't think that's going to happen in any significant way.