Updated: LHJ March Edition Has Cover Girl Issues

It’s well-known magazines and the celebrities they feature often have a cozy relationship; the title gets access to the star, who uses the platform to promote a new movie or album.

Yet when Ladies’ Home Journal editor Sally Lee published the March issue featuring Ellen DeGeneres, some editors wondered if the magazine was engaging in pay-for-play. DeGeneres appears on the cover and in a two-page Cover Girl ad immediately following. The advertiser shows up again in the inside story on DeGeneres, which mentions her new spokesmodel arrangement with Cover Girl.

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