Can’t Lose Weight? Try Government-Induced Starvation!

Published April 24, 2017 9:18pm ET



Anything to lose weight if you’re a Cosmo girl!

Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for the doozy diets it slips in between “5 Relaxing Sex Positions for People Who Have Anxiety About Sex” and “17 Face Sunscreens That Will Leave You With a Clearer Complexion.” The magazine’s U.S. edition got into hot water with some of its readers for promoting an April 10 article with a headline and tweet touting “How This Woman Lost 44 Pounds Without Any Exercise,” in which it turned out that the woman featured actually had serious cancer surgery. (Cosmo quickly switched the title to the more anodyne “A Serious Health Scare Helped Me Love My Body More Than Ever.”

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