I knew that I wanted to intern at ‘Teen Vogue’ from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at Polo Ralph Lauren, where I interned during high school, really believed in me and arranged for an interview with the editors.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn’t make it a teen movie.
The great thing about interning at ‘Teen Vogue’ is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
I was quite discerning the first year and when I was doing ‘The Vampire Diaries’ thing I was like, ‘I’m really not sure if I want to do this; it’s this whole teen thing, which I’ve done in England.’ My agent was like, ‘Don’t be silly, you’ll make great money and everything.’ But I wasn’t sure.
I’ve been trying face products since I was, like 13, 12 years old. I use to break out a lot, especially in my teen years.
I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn’t feel real. It’s sugar-coated. There’s no depth to it.
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children – if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
When ‘Teen Vogue’ started out, ‘Teen Vogue’ was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to ‘Vogue.’ And over the years, we’ve realized that our mission was really to become more focused on making this an inclusive community that speaks to every kind of young person.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I’d grown up with, but you can’t go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play Smashing Pumpkins and Hole songs.
By no means do we think, ‘Oh, it’s cool to be a teen mom.’ I definitely don’t think that it’s cool.
To be honest, I haven’t seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there’s only so much time and there’s nothing that really drives me to do it.
It’s fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to ‘Teen Vogue’ readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.
I love Deathstroke! I was 12 in 1980 when Deathstroke appeared in ‘Teen Titans’ #2.
Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.
I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious – like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I’ve definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.
I don’t think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you’re a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.
When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad’s funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street.
I love the cast of ‘Teen Wolf,’ and I try to keep in touch with them as much as possible.
I’d never made a teen comedy in my life.
It never hurts to tell your teen they matter more than their looks.
I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were ‘Sweet Valley High’ and young teen romance.
I’m a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it’s fake, but I’m having fun.
I would love for a movie that I’m really proud of to launch my career but I wouldn’t like it to be some teen kind of thing that I did for money.
We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff – Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government Issue – to bands who weren’t straight edge, like Negative Approach. I really feel they were one of the greatest punk bands ever.
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It’s so funny. What is that? I don’t even know. But I loved it.
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
You’ve got to grow up sometime.
We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn’t return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn’t date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the ’60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it – there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn’t mine.
I wanted to be an actor since I was three years old; I would dance to Madhuri Dixit’s ‘Ek do teen’ in front of the mirror and recite dialogues from ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho,’ ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… ,’ ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai…’
It’s so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience – except you. You’re on the outside.
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do – and I wasn’t very good at that.
Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at ‘Teen Vogue.’ We were willing to lose some to have more.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
By the time I was a teen, I was an expert at scanning people’s faces, always in search of eyes like mine. I devoured glossy magazines, ever mindful of the language we used to talk about beauty. The sections on how to apply makeup intrigued me most precisely because their audience never included me.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
‘Catcher in the Rye.’ I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
‘Rookie’ is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
I think I’m trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don’t get caught. I think that’s sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.
Being a teen idol is what I’ve waited for my whole life.
I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar – and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that’s what I was fascinated with in my teen years.
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores – or browsed our teen magazines – you’d think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple – sensitively – with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
I didn’t know what was going to happen with ‘Teen Wolf.’ I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, ‘Sweet! I’m still employed! That’s awesome!’ And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.
‘Teen Vogue’ fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don’t have to choose.
