When I was 14, I called two boys on my landline phone to ask them to go to a dance with me—they both said “no.” I had braces, blackheads, and a poor attempt at ‘The Rachel’ haircut from Friends, so I ...
In every decade, America rediscovers that girlhood is in crisis. In the 1990s, it was the heroin chic and waifish models who graced not only the pages of Vogue, but YM and Seventeen, setting a ...