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Five years after leaving UCLan, Jacqui Meddings is on every guest list in London and LA. Lecturer Amy Binns found out how she did it.
our job sounds like the jammiest ever. How did you land it?
It is pretty amazing. I have to pinch myself frequently... especially when I’m interviewing the likes of Adam Levine moments after he’s been posing naked for our legendary naked Centrefold page! Getting this job wasn’t easy though. Before I’d even graduated from UCLan I went for my first proper job interview at Sugar magazine - it was actually my lecturer Cathy Darby who emailed the job advert to me - cheers Cathy!
After two years there I was head hunted by real life magazine, that’s life!. It was a hard move to make. But it was a tactical one. To stand out I needed to be really good at everything first. The real life weeklies are renowned for being the toughest offices to work in.
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Cosmo reporter Jacqui Meddings jetted to the heart of Hollywood to find out what it would take to turn a normal woman into a Tinseltown sensation
shows this isn’t the case. Even British beauty Leona Lewis has gone for glossier hair, a slimmer frame and possibly even a nose job (although she denies surgery) since she got a place there. And this picture of perfection is seldom just down to extra hours spent in the gym and makeup chair. “It’s virtually impossible to be cast in anything today without plastic surgery,” says Hollywood reporter Ashley Pearson. “Even if you have
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n my head, Hollywood sirens aren’t normal women. They are born perfect, anatomically designed for shaking their hair in shampoo adverts or their bootys in music videos. But a flick through pictures of celebs before they hit LA
the prettiest face in the w directors will be scrutini body. And once celebs h they never admit it – it’s th As a result, an unattain
has been set for Hollywo And it’s dangerous. “You think if they don’t matc not good enough. Amon it’s causing a huge self-e says Lynn Grefe, chief ex
The move paid off because after 12 months I got the features writer job at Cosmo. And after two years of writing everything from hard- hitting reports to sex advice features and celeb cover interviews I was promoted to Assistant Entertainment Editor. Finally my day job revolves around my favourite thing: celebrities!
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