British 19-year-old Jourdan Dunn is not visibly pregnant in the picture alongside fellow model Chanel Iman but reveals in an interview inside the magazine that she is expecting a baby in December. Teen Vogue’s editor-in-chief,Iman Amy Astley, said the magazine did not find out about Dunn’s pregnancy until after the photo shoot but that editors had not considered pulling the cover when they did.
“Teen pregnancy is a difficult, real-life issue that Teen Iman Vogue readers (with an average age of 18) are mature enough to be exposed to,” Astley said in a statement. “Teen Vogue felt it was important to support, not punish, Jourdan Dunn, who contributed to a beautiful photo shoot and who will surely have an ongoing and successful career in fashion.”
In her interview, Dunn spoke about how she reacted after learning of her unplanned pregnancy. “All I could think about casual shoes was what my mom was going to say, my agency, my boyfriend,” she said. “When I told my mom, she started crying and blaming herself. She got pregnant with me at the same age, and she said, ‘I don’t want you to have to go through what I did’.”
Some advocates said the Teen Vogue cover should be used as an opportunity to warn about the problems associated with fashion dresses teenage pregnancies. “Teen parenting isn’t glamorous, even if you are a teen model,” Valerie Huber, the executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, told the Associated Press.











