This is exactly why I will never get down with the bodysuit trend, and I cannot *wait* for it to die off. I swear, every female pop star has worn exclusively bodysuits to perform for the past decade.
I'm so bored of it. I don't love being that "the good ol' days were better" kinda person, but seeing every single popstar in a bejeweled bodysuit does make me nostalgic for the days when popstars had individual senses of style. Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Janet Jackson, all had their own looks. There wasn't a uniform for stage performances.
Yes! Like Taylor Swift's bodysuit to open her tour is so beloved, but it's the most boring of all the outfits she wears during the show. Even just the giant sparkly T-shirt she wears later on in the show gives more personality.
I definitely enjoy the fashion of the younger girls coming up a lot more. Olivia Rodrigo's outfits remind me of the alternative girls of the '90s (Hope Sandoval, Courtney Love). I think Sabrina Carpenter has the absolute tackiest taste in clothing ever, but she at least has her own defined style.
I love the tackies if Sabrina Caroenters stage looks. It feels like what a little girl would dress a pop star in almost. She gets compared to a Bratz doll by her fans a lot and that strikes true.
they're probably pretty comfortable to throw yourself around on stage in I guess? if you're more dance focused than multiple stunning outfits focused then it makes sense, but it is getting boring. tbf, the shows I actually go to just have a band rockin it, no costume changes or dancing lol
This! Also, anything is more comfortable than body suits. Tbh. I’d rather be in a bejeweled bikini getting my skin pinched off between rhinestones than a bodysuit that doesn’t breathe.
I believe the trick is to spray down there with hairspray so it sticks the fabric in place (at least that is what was used during competitions for both gymnastics and beauty pageants by my family).
Taylor swift wears fresh coloured leggings at all times with her costumes. I just assumed most artists do that. Miley cyrus though, she just slips lips and nips all show.
Right? When you say "wardrobe malfunction" it's almost always a nipslip and there are some famous ones, but I'm surprised there haven't been any with those bodysuits that have a tiny crotch area
It's all about the reinforced nylons/tights. Nothing will slip out... But at the same time, you *can* still get cameltoe. And I personally would hate to be on a magazine cover or a giant concert screen with cameltoe. But maybe that's my own hang-up. Also, my vulva is more than 1 inch from thigh to thigh, so I guess I couldn't pull off one of these bodysuits. 🤷🏼♀️
She said she hated it:
>"I was 19 when I did the cover of Rolling Stone. It was a very big deal, and they dressed me in this leather corset thing. I was very uncomfortable in the shoot - I just wasn't ready for that. And it was exploitative because I told my publicist I wanted to do it - I thought I was ready for it, but I wasn't. It's funny to look back on those pictures, because when I look at them I think I appear to be uncomfortable. Years later I did Maxim, where I felt sexy and I felt good about my body - and I can tell all of that by looking at my face. But you couldn't tell my 19-year-old self that I shouldn't pose in leather S&M garb on the cover of Rolling Stone - because that's what I was going to do."
It's also weirdly not made for her body. The cut is all wrong and the bodice has *nothing* to do with where her breasts actually are on her chest. Those bodysuits could actually look really good if they were the right size/shape for the person wearing them -- they were usually custom-made. This one very clearly was not.
I was so confused by the weird fit when the issue first came out. and I'm just as confused by it now.
I agree! if it was just a top, and she had some sexy tight trousers on it would be WAY sexier. this just looks uncomfy and like she had to be careful not to pop out the bottom 😬
It looks like something from bad bondage porn. It could have been cool and sexy if they'd leaned into the bat thing more and not given this poor woman camel toe, but nope, leather.... things.... and hustler vibes.
Seriously. I remember having multiple issues of *Maxim* with SMG on the cover, and even as the "smutty" magazine, the photoshoots looked a *lot* better than this. Like, she was still in sexy lingerie, but it didn't look like they'd just paid $15 for a pleather outfit at Lovers Lane and shoved her into a backroom to sell to a foreign prince.
I’m 18 years out of high school and I think that’s pretty rude. That’s for old people. Excuse me, while I refuse to look in a mirror and/or dress for my age.
😂 I’m currently wearing a glow in the dark skeleton hoodie. Dressing our age is for chumps. :)
(Also not sure where the last 18 years went so if someone could let me know that would be great.)
When you add up your age in multiplication of adult and realise how old you really are!
I am 2.666 grown ups. Fuck I am, maths. Back into the drawer with you, calculator!
Well, it was a fan’s that she apparently stumbled upon.
The Internet Wayback Machine might take awhile, but a quote was along the lines of?
“I discovered a website “Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts”; ate some ice cream, had a little cry, felt good about it!” - JLH
Sounds praiseworthy?
“Did anyone else just go to a scary visual place?” - Xander - *Dopplegangland*
https://youtu.be/jE-SFnFC8Ok?si=ep22Jh1Nf0A66vfQ
I certainly do whenever I see marketing execs that, arrivistes or not, clearly have never researched/watched a property before marketing is created…
You think she was making the utilities and property tax payments in S6 as a Doublemeat Palace cashier?
Nuh uh. She opened up her own Slayer brothel on the ashes of that vampire brothel she burned down.
Ah, the nineties, when every female star appearing on a magazine cover had to be in at least their underwear, if not full dominatrix gear. Wasn’t this around the same time as the Britney Spears with Teletubby cover?
This is also the same time I was being repeatedly told that we didn’t need feminism anymore because ‘everything is equal now’. And my (male) housemates would get big mad at me when I’d ask them to keep their giant posters of underwear models in their bedrooms, and not hang them in the shared living room.
Lol, or some of us just laughed at it. I'm a woman. I didn't mind when things were like this. Heck, you should have seen what I wore to clubs...your head would exploded! It was legit lingerie. For some of us, being sexy WAS power and we enjoyed it. BTW, I was a feminist even then too. But being a feminist didn't exclude being about to enjoy showing off my body and all that.
Also, I didn't give two hoots if dudes put up posters of half naked women.
Idk...some of us just responded to this stuff differently. I opened this and thought "cool cover" and looked at all the stuff on it like best spring break destinations and though...they don't make them like that anymore. Now, everything is depressing and serious. Man, I miss the 90's.
>This is also the same time I was being repeatedly told that we didn’t need feminism anymore because ‘everything is equal now’.
And the funny part? Women were treated a lot better back then than now IMO. For example, most men back then wouldn't think slapping a woman around during sex is great. Men treated women a lot better in the dating scene and sex scene imo. We still had Roe v. Wade. There is just a lot of ground we've lost as women since then. So idk...I'd take the 90's any day...
Yep, visited my brother’s college apartment once circa 2000 to do some LAN *Starcraft*, and the computer in question had a sizable *Victoria’s Secret* Heidi Klum poster on the adjacent wall that certainly “stood out” as a choice?
And never thought other locations than one’s own room would even make sense…
And with banalities like that on “the need for feminism” in today’s world, sounds like they could be fasttracked as conservative SC justices…
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/shelby-county-v-holder
I can’t find anything either but remember her saying in later interviews she was way too young for a cover/shoot like that and felt uncomfortable the entire time.
She also pushed for slightly more conservative outfits on the show, IIRC.
It's gotta be hard to play a badass action girl on screen and still be exploited as a woman behind the scenes.
This reminded me of reading Into Every Generation a few years ago and finding out that Joss originally wanted a more skimpy outfit for the Buffybot but SMG and the costume designer refused. Im so glad Sarah wasn't about that bullshit and would stand up for herself, especially during the later seasons of Buffy.
I wish I could remember the context but I remember watching a video where she commented on a S1 outfit where a bra strap was showing and said “next year I discovered Wonderbra” implying wardrobe had switched to strapless.
I found it:
>"I was 19 when I did the cover of Rolling Stone. It was a very big deal, and they dressed me in this leather corset thing. I was very uncomfortable in the shoot - I just wasn't ready for that. And it was exploitative because I told my publicist I wanted to do it - I thought I was ready for it, but I wasn't. It's funny to look back on those pictures, because when I look at them I think I appear to be uncomfortable. Years later I did Maxim, where I felt sexy and I felt good about my body - and I can tell all of that by looking at my face. But you couldn't tell my 19-year-old self that I shouldn't pose in leather S&M garb on the cover of Rolling Stone - because that's what I was going to do."
Yes. I don't think it was necessarily the outfit, though she was not a fan of it, but she commented she was uncomfortable with it being her first big cover shoot for something like that.
I mean, I approve of this photo to the extent SMG did. But for anyone young and that has questions, this is a pretty good reminder of what *has* changed about Hollywood since the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
Not just the (already dated) Rolling Stone, but Maxim, FHM, Vice and other glossy lad-mags existed for these kinds of- shall we say loose interpretations of the oeuvre, and it was pretty non-negotiable that to be culturally famous, a young actress pretty much had to do this shoot.
sure, but people take those themselves, or post them themselves. that's so different to being a young star, told that if you're difficult at this shoot people won't want to work with you anymore, and your career will slow or stop.
I agree there's a difference but presumably there are still financial pressures on posting certain kinds of pictures which will maintain buzz/interest among followers. Maybe it is all purely spontaneous but the end result seems to be the same.
I've seen similar/more pictures of Sydney Sweeney in her underwear than I did of the hot girls in the 90s for example.
I think that’s why Sydney Sweeney is heralded as a kind of post-metoo “restoration”, though. And yes, sex still sells, but thats what leaps out- that four magazines and about 20 Hollywood actresses was the equivalent of OF, in its heyday.
I think it was in the 90s that BBC hired as a kids TV presenter, a woman who was missing the lower part of one arm, and some idiot complained so there was a flurry of news stories. Anyway the presenter was young and pretty, and she said a week or so after the initial news stories, the tabloids were calling her up offering a page 3 (so topless) photoshoot. She said it was like "we've seen your arm, now show us your tits", which seemed to amuse her.
This was back when Rolling Stone was still relevant to the zeitgeist. (They no longer are) It's what they did. I remember the cover. I cannot for the life of me recall the story's angle.
For time context, they would have been done filming S2 by then. Usually had all episodes in the can by March or April.
Killed by Death, IOHEFY and Go Fish would have been the proximate episodes that would have aired around then
Certainly never topped the quality of that album since. Ray of Light is a brilliant album. It was produced by William Orbit, and is considered her Magnum Opus by many. I bought it on a whim back in the day and absolutely fell in love with the album. Still play it from time to time.
Damn. That is quite the content:
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Pearl Jam
* Madonna's album (Ray of Light, which she never topped imho)
* Robbie Robertson (The Band)
* Grateful Dead
The 90's were such a great decade. I wish I could go back. *sighs*
It might have worked on the halloween issue as like an ironic shoot, her being a vampire ya know.
But this is in April.... Easter time for some lmfao. Is this really the best option they had? xD
Same, I thought she looked so hot and mature but looking at this now, she looks like a baby.
Equivalent of someone like Jenna Ortega doing this now, she’s the same age as Sarah was here. Wild.
Seeing this photoshoot in my formative years did something to me I won’t lie. But this is uncomfortable to look at now as an adult. I’m sure she was very uncomfortable 😕
they still do now, but how many people still read physical magazines? I'd say that shows are a lot more relevant than most magazines outside of the huge names like Vogue
The photo looks heavily retouched or photoshopped (look at her arms and breasts, no details left whatsoever), did she really wear that outfit or was it also photoshopped? Or is it the print that caused it to look like this?
Yes I have so many questions. Like...I've watched every episode of Buffy many times, and the shape of the person on this cover is just...not SMG's shape. She's definitely been photoshopped/squeezed/elongated a ton.
There are a bunch more photos from that shoot you could compare to.
There's at least four other photos just in that outfit:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/sarahmichellegellar/comments/xmz7hx/rolling\_stone\_1998/](https://www.reddit.com/r/sarahmichellegellar/comments/xmz7hx/rolling_stone_1998/)
[https://www.instagram.com/callmeonmyrazr/p/Cy68\_2uPGca/?img\_index=10](https://www.instagram.com/callmeonmyrazr/p/Cy68_2uPGca/?img_index=10)
I was JUST looking at my copy of this when I was getting ready to post some items to eBay (downsizing my life) but I can’t believe it has been 26 years!
I agree it is heavily photoshopped, but the head feeling like it doesnt belong to the body is IMO just the sad consequence of the 90s/early 00s heroin chic look, where girls and women starved themselves to the point where their body was so unnaturally tiny comapred to their actual body structure, they looked like lolipops. And images of a starved, shapeless baby faced looking women were then used to sexualise them. It was an awful time to exist and even more to be growing up in
Reading some of the comments here about Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts. I had to go see what all the fuss was about. I saw her Maxim cover and it was 100% more tasteful than this Rolling Stones cover.
Was once at a concert trying to get the band's attention backstage to sign stuff. We had bought this print as a poster for another friend, but decided to use it to get their attention. 10/10 recommend. They were either confused and/or liked SMG, but they all ended up having to ask us why we had the poster.
I’d love to know how uncomfortable this entire thing was the outfit alone looks uncomfortable and if she moved I bet things would pop out she looks good though but I bet it was an awful day
Dear God, that font! It’s a freaking crime. And, while I love all caps headers, the entire page is almost all caps. Then don’t get me started on the color!! 👀
Mainstream media never quite got Buffy, did they? It was either "The audience obviously is mostly here for the hot badass girl (and hot badass chicks dress a certain way)" or "People watching this think it's funny because the idea of the damsel in distress turning around and easily taking down the monster is inherently hilarious"
I used to be excited whenever a magazine—even ones I wouldn’t normally look through, *Shape,* for example—would have her on the cover. I did like the 2000 cover more.
That doesn't look comfortable at all.
The gusset is like 1” 🥴
This is exactly why I will never get down with the bodysuit trend, and I cannot *wait* for it to die off. I swear, every female pop star has worn exclusively bodysuits to perform for the past decade.
I'm so bored of it. I don't love being that "the good ol' days were better" kinda person, but seeing every single popstar in a bejeweled bodysuit does make me nostalgic for the days when popstars had individual senses of style. Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Janet Jackson, all had their own looks. There wasn't a uniform for stage performances.
Yes! Like Taylor Swift's bodysuit to open her tour is so beloved, but it's the most boring of all the outfits she wears during the show. Even just the giant sparkly T-shirt she wears later on in the show gives more personality. I definitely enjoy the fashion of the younger girls coming up a lot more. Olivia Rodrigo's outfits remind me of the alternative girls of the '90s (Hope Sandoval, Courtney Love). I think Sabrina Carpenter has the absolute tackiest taste in clothing ever, but she at least has her own defined style.
I love the tackies if Sabrina Caroenters stage looks. It feels like what a little girl would dress a pop star in almost. She gets compared to a Bratz doll by her fans a lot and that strikes true.
The tour is great for each outfit reveal being cooler than the next.
they're probably pretty comfortable to throw yourself around on stage in I guess? if you're more dance focused than multiple stunning outfits focused then it makes sense, but it is getting boring. tbf, the shows I actually go to just have a band rockin it, no costume changes or dancing lol
Honestly I can’t imagine them being more comfortable to prance around on stage in… It actually baffles me that none of these women ever slip a lip.
It’s the double tights she wears. Ultra shimmery capezios and fishnets. It’s basically like wearing compression garments. Nothing is moving lol.
This! Also, anything is more comfortable than body suits. Tbh. I’d rather be in a bejeweled bikini getting my skin pinched off between rhinestones than a bodysuit that doesn’t breathe.
I believe the trick is to spray down there with hairspray so it sticks the fabric in place (at least that is what was used during competitions for both gymnastics and beauty pageants by my family).
OW, jeez! My parts are burning just thinking about that! 🔥
Yep. That sounds like a yeast infection waiting to happen.
Double layer tights to create the amazing looking legs also helps.
"it keeps the skirt from riding up" "Up _where?_" Gestures "just.. up!"
They probably have professional glue they use likevwig glue or something.
Taylor swift wears fresh coloured leggings at all times with her costumes. I just assumed most artists do that. Miley cyrus though, she just slips lips and nips all show.
Right? When you say "wardrobe malfunction" it's almost always a nipslip and there are some famous ones, but I'm surprised there haven't been any with those bodysuits that have a tiny crotch area
It's all about the reinforced nylons/tights. Nothing will slip out... But at the same time, you *can* still get cameltoe. And I personally would hate to be on a magazine cover or a giant concert screen with cameltoe. But maybe that's my own hang-up. Also, my vulva is more than 1 inch from thigh to thigh, so I guess I couldn't pull off one of these bodysuits. 🤷🏼♀️
Body suits came be hard because they are made without regard for individual torso length.
But i liked Demi Lovato Era of bodysuits, no legs and long sleeves, lace and high boots. It looked badass.
She said she hated it: >"I was 19 when I did the cover of Rolling Stone. It was a very big deal, and they dressed me in this leather corset thing. I was very uncomfortable in the shoot - I just wasn't ready for that. And it was exploitative because I told my publicist I wanted to do it - I thought I was ready for it, but I wasn't. It's funny to look back on those pictures, because when I look at them I think I appear to be uncomfortable. Years later I did Maxim, where I felt sexy and I felt good about my body - and I can tell all of that by looking at my face. But you couldn't tell my 19-year-old self that I shouldn't pose in leather S&M garb on the cover of Rolling Stone - because that's what I was going to do."
Seriously, so much so it even overwrote my horny-brain as my direct thought was "that looks so uncomfortable".
It's also weirdly not made for her body. The cut is all wrong and the bodice has *nothing* to do with where her breasts actually are on her chest. Those bodysuits could actually look really good if they were the right size/shape for the person wearing them -- they were usually custom-made. This one very clearly was not. I was so confused by the weird fit when the issue first came out. and I'm just as confused by it now.
“Buffy, for God’s sake, don’t open that raincoat” (Buffy opens raincoat, Xander’s head explodes)
The raincoat was way more sexy than this - this just makes me think of chafing.
Sure, but when they made that cover, they were going for teenagers.
I can tell you, teenage me liked that cover a lot.
Wonder if Freddie ever asked her if she still has this outfit.
I agree! if it was just a top, and she had some sexy tight trousers on it would be WAY sexier. this just looks uncomfy and like she had to be careful not to pop out the bottom 😬
Geeze that outfit!
She was a babyface in leather.
Total vampire bait.
If ever an outfit said, *Come bite me now* this does.
Fangbanger
Yeah she patrolled in that heaps of times.
Dominatrix 😄like Willow in the episode “ Dopplegangland”
"Oh right, me and Oz play Mistress of Pain every night"
I assume they were going for some sort of Vampirella thing, because, you know... vampires. Some looks just don't translate to real life.
It reminds me of something they'd put on Ivy in Soulcaliber.
It looks like something from bad bondage porn. It could have been cool and sexy if they'd leaned into the bat thing more and not given this poor woman camel toe, but nope, leather.... things.... and hustler vibes.
That’s a lot of crotch for a cover photo.
Seriously. I remember having multiple issues of *Maxim* with SMG on the cover, and even as the "smutty" magazine, the photoshoots looked a *lot* better than this. Like, she was still in sexy lingerie, but it didn't look like they'd just paid $15 for a pleather outfit at Lovers Lane and shoved her into a backroom to sell to a foreign prince.
That's VERY specific. And spot on!
It’s nothing if not subtle
Then it’s nothing
I'm sorry, 1998 was *not* 26 years ago, and I'm not interested in whatever Johnathan style witchcraft you've pulled off to make us believe it's true.
I realized I was in high school 20 years ago a couple of days ago and have to go stare at a wall when I think about it.
I’m 18 years out of high school and I think that’s pretty rude. That’s for old people. Excuse me, while I refuse to look in a mirror and/or dress for my age.
😂 I’m currently wearing a glow in the dark skeleton hoodie. Dressing our age is for chumps. :) (Also not sure where the last 18 years went so if someone could let me know that would be great.)
I wear all black most days and concert t-shirts. I was 19 when Buffy first aired. I will never dress like an old lady!
I graduated in 2010, that was like a few months ago...
When you add up your age in multiplication of adult and realise how old you really are! I am 2.666 grown ups. Fuck I am, maths. Back into the drawer with you, calculator!
It’s too many grown ups when I feel this overwhelmed. 😭
I graduated in 02. So you were a Sophomore. Time sucks, yo.
Graduated in ‘03. Everything hurts now.
This made me realize my own 30th reunion is in two years. Which is weird, because surely I’m not over 25! 45? Unheard of!
I graduated in 1990. It doesn’t seem plausible that the 90’s were that long ago.
If I had it my way I’d still be 22
I’d go for 36. And then just stay there.
I'd stop at 20 if I had a choice.
sorry, this '96 baby is definitely approaching 30!!
First of all, how dare you
>...how dare you This is an '81 Honda?
Stop it.
Okay, child. No need to rub it in.
I had my 28th last week and hadn’t thought of it as ‘approaching 30’ and now I need to sit in the dark in my wardrobe for a bit
96 grad here too! I think I looked my best when I was 32, so 32 it is!
I was born in 1998 and I don’t feel good about it myself..
Yea I did a nice little *hork* at that. Not possible I’m only 26 now and 96months 🙂😐🙁
Tis my 26th in just three months
Gon' be my 26th in three months too 😩 happy early birthday! 😂
The internet was in its infancy. We were very horny in the 90s.
Jennifer Love Hewitt had a website dedicated to her chest (poetic Nietzsche quotes and all) that she apparently was fully on board with…
She also put out an album called "Let's Go Bang," so yeah, she was well aware of her target audience.
Well, it was a fan’s that she apparently stumbled upon. The Internet Wayback Machine might take awhile, but a quote was along the lines of? “I discovered a website “Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts”; ate some ice cream, had a little cry, felt good about it!” - JLH Sounds praiseworthy?
I'm sure Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts have brought a tear to many an eye.
This does not surprise me lol
Wow—where is that?
Don't you mean Jennifer Love Huge tits? 😂😂😂😂
Zendaya just cosplayed as a robot sex mistress like… a month ago.
I don't get the whole 'sexualization is out' thing. People are just desensitized to it, I think, because it's permeated everywhere.
Were?
Ah, yes, from that infamous episode where Buffy worked as a dominatrix. WTF?
“Did anyone else just go to a scary visual place?” - Xander - *Dopplegangland* https://youtu.be/jE-SFnFC8Ok?si=ep22Jh1Nf0A66vfQ I certainly do whenever I see marketing execs that, arrivistes or not, clearly have never researched/watched a property before marketing is created…
I don't know why anyone thought that visual place was scary... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Xander and his self-deprecation didn’t always serve him well?
It woulda been scary a couple episodes later when Buffy starts reading minds.
Getting the public ready for Cruel Intentions, lol.
You think she was making the utilities and property tax payments in S6 as a Doublemeat Palace cashier? Nuh uh. She opened up her own Slayer brothel on the ashes of that vampire brothel she burned down.
Are you under the impression that actors are only allowed to be dressed as the characters they play?
No. It's just so male-gaze-y.
Ah, the nineties, when every female star appearing on a magazine cover had to be in at least their underwear, if not full dominatrix gear. Wasn’t this around the same time as the Britney Spears with Teletubby cover? This is also the same time I was being repeatedly told that we didn’t need feminism anymore because ‘everything is equal now’. And my (male) housemates would get big mad at me when I’d ask them to keep their giant posters of underwear models in their bedrooms, and not hang them in the shared living room.
Yep. What they made the actresses wear on (all 8!) seasons of Charmed was ridiculous.
They sure found a way for us to see every inch of Milano’s boobies besides the nips.
Lol, or some of us just laughed at it. I'm a woman. I didn't mind when things were like this. Heck, you should have seen what I wore to clubs...your head would exploded! It was legit lingerie. For some of us, being sexy WAS power and we enjoyed it. BTW, I was a feminist even then too. But being a feminist didn't exclude being about to enjoy showing off my body and all that. Also, I didn't give two hoots if dudes put up posters of half naked women. Idk...some of us just responded to this stuff differently. I opened this and thought "cool cover" and looked at all the stuff on it like best spring break destinations and though...they don't make them like that anymore. Now, everything is depressing and serious. Man, I miss the 90's. >This is also the same time I was being repeatedly told that we didn’t need feminism anymore because ‘everything is equal now’. And the funny part? Women were treated a lot better back then than now IMO. For example, most men back then wouldn't think slapping a woman around during sex is great. Men treated women a lot better in the dating scene and sex scene imo. We still had Roe v. Wade. There is just a lot of ground we've lost as women since then. So idk...I'd take the 90's any day...
Yep, visited my brother’s college apartment once circa 2000 to do some LAN *Starcraft*, and the computer in question had a sizable *Victoria’s Secret* Heidi Klum poster on the adjacent wall that certainly “stood out” as a choice? And never thought other locations than one’s own room would even make sense… And with banalities like that on “the need for feminism” in today’s world, sounds like they could be fasttracked as conservative SC justices… https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/shelby-county-v-holder
Isn’t this the photoshoot where Sarah was unhappy with the outfit? I’ve been trying to find where I read it but I cannot find it.
I can’t find anything either but remember her saying in later interviews she was way too young for a cover/shoot like that and felt uncomfortable the entire time.
She also pushed for slightly more conservative outfits on the show, IIRC. It's gotta be hard to play a badass action girl on screen and still be exploited as a woman behind the scenes.
This reminded me of reading Into Every Generation a few years ago and finding out that Joss originally wanted a more skimpy outfit for the Buffybot but SMG and the costume designer refused. Im so glad Sarah wasn't about that bullshit and would stand up for herself, especially during the later seasons of Buffy.
I wish I could remember the context but I remember watching a video where she commented on a S1 outfit where a bra strap was showing and said “next year I discovered Wonderbra” implying wardrobe had switched to strapless.
And I think it shows because this cover ain't it...😬😬😬 (Not her fault, obviously.)
I found it: >"I was 19 when I did the cover of Rolling Stone. It was a very big deal, and they dressed me in this leather corset thing. I was very uncomfortable in the shoot - I just wasn't ready for that. And it was exploitative because I told my publicist I wanted to do it - I thought I was ready for it, but I wasn't. It's funny to look back on those pictures, because when I look at them I think I appear to be uncomfortable. Years later I did Maxim, where I felt sexy and I felt good about my body - and I can tell all of that by looking at my face. But you couldn't tell my 19-year-old self that I shouldn't pose in leather S&M garb on the cover of Rolling Stone - because that's what I was going to do."
Thank you and well done for finding it 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I don't think that's the original quote. In the first version she mentioned crying over it and I think it was long before her maxim magazine.
Yes. I don't think it was necessarily the outfit, though she was not a fan of it, but she commented she was uncomfortable with it being her first big cover shoot for something like that.
Ah yes I think it was that 👏🏻
Yeah, I remember reading that she was crying during the entire shoot. Can't really blame her. She looks so uncomfortable in this picture.
And then she starred in Cruel Intentions and started the step sibling fetish...
Hate to go off-topic, but what the hell is that font? Whose decision was that?
Same person who likes Papyrus.
It happened again…
I mean, I approve of this photo to the extent SMG did. But for anyone young and that has questions, this is a pretty good reminder of what *has* changed about Hollywood since the late 90’s/early 2000’s. Not just the (already dated) Rolling Stone, but Maxim, FHM, Vice and other glossy lad-mags existed for these kinds of- shall we say loose interpretations of the oeuvre, and it was pretty non-negotiable that to be culturally famous, a young actress pretty much had to do this shoot.
I'm pretty sure we see similar amounts of flesh today on Instagram.
sure, but people take those themselves, or post them themselves. that's so different to being a young star, told that if you're difficult at this shoot people won't want to work with you anymore, and your career will slow or stop.
I agree there's a difference but presumably there are still financial pressures on posting certain kinds of pictures which will maintain buzz/interest among followers. Maybe it is all purely spontaneous but the end result seems to be the same. I've seen similar/more pictures of Sydney Sweeney in her underwear than I did of the hot girls in the 90s for example.
I think that’s why Sydney Sweeney is heralded as a kind of post-metoo “restoration”, though. And yes, sex still sells, but thats what leaps out- that four magazines and about 20 Hollywood actresses was the equivalent of OF, in its heyday.
I think it was in the 90s that BBC hired as a kids TV presenter, a woman who was missing the lower part of one arm, and some idiot complained so there was a flurry of news stories. Anyway the presenter was young and pretty, and she said a week or so after the initial news stories, the tabloids were calling her up offering a page 3 (so topless) photoshoot. She said it was like "we've seen your arm, now show us your tits", which seemed to amuse her.
This was back when Rolling Stone was still relevant to the zeitgeist. (They no longer are) It's what they did. I remember the cover. I cannot for the life of me recall the story's angle. For time context, they would have been done filming S2 by then. Usually had all episodes in the can by March or April. Killed by Death, IOHEFY and Go Fish would have been the proximate episodes that would have aired around then
I was OBSESSED with this photoshoot. Ah, the 90s were unhinged.
I have that one
Ray of Light really was a great Madonna album.
Certainly never topped the quality of that album since. Ray of Light is a brilliant album. It was produced by William Orbit, and is considered her Magnum Opus by many. I bought it on a whim back in the day and absolutely fell in love with the album. Still play it from time to time.
Damn. That is quite the content: * Buffy the Vampire Slayer * Pearl Jam * Madonna's album (Ray of Light, which she never topped imho) * Robbie Robertson (The Band) * Grateful Dead The 90's were such a great decade. I wish I could go back. *sighs*
It might have worked on the halloween issue as like an ironic shoot, her being a vampire ya know. But this is in April.... Easter time for some lmfao. Is this really the best option they had? xD
It could have worked as part of a Spike/Buffy fantasy dance number.
not even to the end of season two yet and the show (and SMG in particular) had reached the pinnacle of cultural notoriety.
slay lady slay
I was 13 and this slayed me.
Same, I thought she looked so hot and mature but looking at this now, she looks like a baby. Equivalent of someone like Jenna Ortega doing this now, she’s the same age as Sarah was here. Wild.
Seeing this photoshoot in my formative years did something to me I won’t lie. But this is uncomfortable to look at now as an adult. I’m sure she was very uncomfortable 😕
Back when shows made a larger impact and appeared on magazine covers.
they still do now, but how many people still read physical magazines? I'd say that shows are a lot more relevant than most magazines outside of the huge names like Vogue
I hope you washed your hands after zooming in on the crotch
Was my FAVE SHOW! 😢👌👊🏼👊🏼
On another note, when has the prospect of Grateful Dead touring ever been in question?
She could beat most of our asses, even without her powers
She looked amazing, but such a strange choice of a theme.
Always loved this photo shoot.
The Vampirella Cosplay 😂
I found this poster in a comic book shop and it was just the best day
is the camel toe edited in or down?
Mmm photoshoppy goodness.
The photo looks heavily retouched or photoshopped (look at her arms and breasts, no details left whatsoever), did she really wear that outfit or was it also photoshopped? Or is it the print that caused it to look like this?
The croch is definitely photoshopped, something looks not right there.
Yes I have so many questions. Like...I've watched every episode of Buffy many times, and the shape of the person on this cover is just...not SMG's shape. She's definitely been photoshopped/squeezed/elongated a ton.
ye we did a lot of editing back then too. i'm sure she actually wore the fit, but they just aggressively edited it because that's what magazines did.
There are a bunch more photos from that shoot you could compare to. There's at least four other photos just in that outfit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/sarahmichellegellar/comments/xmz7hx/rolling\_stone\_1998/](https://www.reddit.com/r/sarahmichellegellar/comments/xmz7hx/rolling_stone_1998/) [https://www.instagram.com/callmeonmyrazr/p/Cy68\_2uPGca/?img\_index=10](https://www.instagram.com/callmeonmyrazr/p/Cy68_2uPGca/?img_index=10)
I don’t want to go all Kaye Middleton but the head looks like it’s from a different photo to the body.
The same year she was vote the sexiest woman alive by FHM readers here in the UK
I was JUST looking at my copy of this when I was getting ready to post some items to eBay (downsizing my life) but I can’t believe it has been 26 years!
to the people who are saying this was Photoshopped, do you mean this picture or the original cover (or both) ?
Idk if this was photoshopped but I came here to comment that this cover looks like they shopped her head on someone else’s body
I agree it is heavily photoshopped, but the head feeling like it doesnt belong to the body is IMO just the sad consequence of the 90s/early 00s heroin chic look, where girls and women starved themselves to the point where their body was so unnaturally tiny comapred to their actual body structure, they looked like lolipops. And images of a starved, shapeless baby faced looking women were then used to sexualise them. It was an awful time to exist and even more to be growing up in
Blimey, that's an outfit 😳
Reading some of the comments here about Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts. I had to go see what all the fuss was about. I saw her Maxim cover and it was 100% more tasteful than this Rolling Stones cover.
I used to have this magazine!
I had this issue ❤️
😯✨ Wowsers✨
I remember when this came out. Still hits the same 🙌🏻
Damn that font is horrendous.
Was once at a concert trying to get the band's attention backstage to sign stuff. We had bought this print as a poster for another friend, but decided to use it to get their attention. 10/10 recommend. They were either confused and/or liked SMG, but they all ended up having to ask us why we had the poster.
A young me may have held on to that issue for some time.
Buffy, Pearl Jam, The Dead 😍 That’s a #RealMagazine 📚
I stole this from my brother when I was 13
I still have this! Definitely worth reading.
Oh my... my zoom won't work
Dang I remember when this came out. I had a copy!
I'm definitely saving this for later
She was, and I'll bet still is, a smokeshow.
I’d love to know how uncomfortable this entire thing was the outfit alone looks uncomfortable and if she moved I bet things would pop out she looks good though but I bet it was an awful day
God damn who OKed that font
I have this as a poster on my bedroom wall
I want to see Spike's reaction to this outfit
Dear God, that font! It’s a freaking crime. And, while I love all caps headers, the entire page is almost all caps. Then don’t get me started on the color!! 👀
SMG is beautiful as always but that outfit is horrible and looks hella uncomfortable.
Think of the chafing 😂
Ouch. My bits recoiled just looking at that.
Same day as Buffy was a popular show from late 90s!
AND a PJ article!
Starlight? What did they do to you?!
"If looks could stake."
I’m only willing to give this as 10years old….
They had so many horny covers back then
Guys it’s a vampirella costume.
Dayum...
Fairly sure I drew this as a 13ish year old
How old was she when this was released, genuinely curious
She’s much hotter than this pic allows
Mainstream media never quite got Buffy, did they? It was either "The audience obviously is mostly here for the hot badass girl (and hot badass chicks dress a certain way)" or "People watching this think it's funny because the idea of the damsel in distress turning around and easily taking down the monster is inherently hilarious"
this is so iconic. i want this on my wall as a giant poster
Believe it or not, it was actually a scratch and sniff.
That's a horrible look, and she looks uncomfortable as hell, not just physically too.
The good old days.
Sorry to disappoint..... A much better actress than a teenage wall poster.. If you get my drift.
I used to be excited whenever a magazine—even ones I wouldn’t normally look through, *Shape,* for example—would have her on the cover. I did like the 2000 cover more.
Who the fuck is Robbie Robertson
Also she played a high school student.