Real Simple Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Here's to another 15.

Real Simple hit newsstands in April 2000 (pictured, on the right) with a cover featuring roses. Fifteen years later, the cover once again features the popular flower. Other than that, almost everything about Real Simple has changed.

Real Simple was first imagined as every woman’s go-to guide for streamlining life. Readers still flock to the title for that, but in a different way.

“At the beginning, I think this magazine attracted women who felt overwhelmed by the physical stuff in their lives,” Real Simple’s editor Kristin van Ogtrop told FishbowlNY.

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