I just finished an interview with a reporter from Glamour magazine. While I do hundreds of media interviews a year (including Oprah and The View) fashion magazines never call so I’m always a bit surprised when they do. I’ve sold more then 2 million books on skin care and beauty issues, which fashion magazines routinely ignore.

The Glamour reporter was very young and very polite and very honest. She kept saying, “Well I know they won’t let me print that” or, “maybe we can frame it a way that won’t upset our advertisers.” Her honesty was appreciated, but frustrating and maddening at the same time. It’s not that I haven’t heard it before. I’ve met dozens of fashion reporters who all echo the same sentiment: they can’t print what I write about despite the published research I have documenting the facts. It’s just so close to the New Year, I was hoping for something, well, new.

Maybe a fashion magazine would risk pissing off their advertisers to give women real objective information on beauty and skin care. Sigh. It isn’t going to happen, any more than fashion magazines are going to inform us about garment industry-run sweat shops or how high heels are killing women’s feet and knees. It isn’t going to happen, no how, no way. Fiction and fantasy is far more fashionable then facts.