After reporting on the most controversial U.S. magazine covers of 2024, it’s time to look at foreign magazine covers that rubbed people the wrong way this year.
What follows are some controversial foreign magazine covers, according mostly to the English-language media.
Italian magazine Sette published a Photoshopped mess of a cover for its April 5 issue.
The cover showed Italian ski champion Sofia Goggia with two left feet.
Goggia wanted to show the large scar on her right leg from an injury, but obviously the magazine wanted to cover it up.
(See articles by SnowBrains and Il Fatto Quotidiano.)
Vogue Arabia ran a cover featuring Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer who won the gold medal in the women’s 66 kg (welterweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The masculine-looking Khelif has faced allegations that she is actually male.
People took to social media to express their outrage that she was featured on the November cover of the women’s fashion magazine. (See post on X, for example.)
The U.K.’s Tatler magazine caught an earful for its July cover portrait of Princess Kate.
Critics branded the painting as “dreadful,” “awful” and looking “nothing like the Princess of Wales.”
(See articles by the Daily Mail, Mirror, BBC and CNN.)
And finally, French magazine Madame Figaro came under fire after it described former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 13-year-old daughter, Giulia Sarkozy, as “more of a woman than ever” on a digital cover.
(See article by the Daily Mail.)
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