Here at Closer , we’ve noticed a trend in your emails this month. They aren’t about the latest TOWIE drama or the X Factor judging panel’s new haircuts. They’re about guilt . Guilt that you haven’t lost the ‘holiday weight’. Guilt that you’re already planning a Netflix marathon instead of a night out. Guilt that your washing-up pile looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
We spend so long trying to be the perfect girlfriend, the perfect employee, the perfect daughter, that we forget to be the perfect friend to ourselves .
So here is your permission slip, dated September 2012. Tear it out. Stick it on the fridge. Closer Magazine September 2012 Pdf 12
In 2012, we are expected to be available 24/7. We are expected to have the body of Cheryl Cole, the patience of the Queen, and the social life of Kate Middleton. It’s a fantasy. And it’s making us miserable.
On page 34, we talk to three real women who did something radical last weekend: they turned off their phones. No Instagram stalking. No frantic WhatsApp groups. One of them, 32-year-old receptionist Chloe from Manchester, spent Saturday morning just staring at a wall. “I cried,” she told us. “Because I realised I hadn’t been still for ten years.” Here at Closer , we’ve noticed a trend
We try the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ so you don’t have to. Plus, the £10 dress that looks like Prada.
This month, we’re launching a new campaign. Forget ‘New Year, New You.’ We want ‘Same You, But Quieter.’ Guilt that you haven’t lost the ‘holiday weight’
That isn’t sad. That is survival.