Self
![]() | 1-yearConde' Nast Publications, Consumer magazine Customer Rating: 42 reviews Recommend |
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Self is devoted to all women who want to discover the secrets of living better by maximizing their fitness, health, nutrition, personal happiness, beauty, and style. Every issue provides new ideas and plans to jump-start or maintain personal development, nutrition, and fitness goals, plus the latest news and breakthroughs in health and well-being.
Who Reads SELF?
SELF is a motivating monthly self-help manual that gives its 5 million readers the tools and inspiration they need to feel, look and be their very best. Our readers are women looking to slim down, firm up, feel stronger and more energetic or all of the above. They come to SELF for advice on fitness, healthy eating, beauty, fashion, health, relationships, time management and finances. The magazine attends to the reader's need to look fantastic, but also to live a truly healthy life. SELF's voice is of the reader's smartest, most encouraging friend, urging her to be herself, only better.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of SELF include:
- 15 Minutes to Your Best Self: Timesaving tips
- Beauty Update and Fitness Update
- Body Bonus: Tear-out fitness cards
- Style it Yourself and Style Solutions
- Eat-right Update and Eat-right Need-to-Know
- Health Plate: Recipes
- Health Update and Health Q&A
- Health True Story
- Happiness Update and Sex Update
- Plus Flash news columns throughout the magazine.
Past Issues:
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Contributors:
SELF relies on a team of diligent reporters and researchers to bring women the latest news on health, fitness, happiness and more. The magazine's regular columnists include nutrition expert Joy Bauer, R.D., women's health columnist Lisa Callahan, M.D., psychiatrist and happiness columnist Catherine Birndorf, M.D. and fitness director Meaghan Buchan, a certified trainer.
Magazine Layout
SELF's design is clean and impactful, its models happy, confident and relaxed. Reading SELF, you will always find visual "aaah" moments, as well as breathtaking, inspirational photos and humorous and thought-provoking images.
Comparisons to Other Magazines
Many magazines focus on health and fitness, but SELF does so in the most authoritative and sophisticated way. SELF is the only magazine with a regular "happiness" column, and that upbeat, encouraging mood permeats the magazine. SELF is the trainer you want to hug at the end of a session — not the boot-camp instructor. It's the magazine that feels like a friend, and the one you want to share with your friends.
Advertising
SELF carries a wide range of advertising, from beauty to automotive to packaged goods. The ad/edit ratio is 50/50. SELF’s top five ad categories are beauty, food/beverages, travel/transportation (including automotive), health/remedies and retail.
Awards
SELF has won dozens of awards for its reporting on health, beauty and psychology topics and has been nominated for a total of 11 National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's highest honor. The magazine's 2006 Breast Cancer Handbook won the National Magazine Award for Public Service.
More About SELF:
SELF is the founder of the Pink Ribbon for breast cancer awareness and publishes its Women's Cancer Handbook in the October issue. SELF also hosts the SELF Challenge, a remarkably effective three-month fitness and healthy eating program in the magazine and online at Self.com. More than a million women have used the Challenge to slim down, shape up and feel fantastic.
Title: Self (1-year)
Sales Rank: 54 in Magazines
Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine, Magazine Subscription
Subscription: 365 days, 12 issues, First issue lead: 6-10 weeks
- Still not received
- I have ordered and paid for this magazine yet still have not seen any subscriptions. I am very disappointed as I also order Glamour the same day and have already received two different months. Not sure where Self is going wrong but they need to model their turnaround time for new orders similar to Glamour. More reviews
- Okay
- The real life story it has is a little gruesome, (with pics of woman who lost her breast to dieting, bloody and sewed up nipples.... eek!)
I like something more inspiring. There's a few, (very few) fitness stuff and the fashion pics--can't really wear that in public, looks better on the runway. More reviews
- Love it
- It took about a month and a half to get my first issue. I knew it was going to take a little while to process. It didn't matter to me when I recieved it, as long as I did! It's a great magazine that really relates to women. I love the articles and it's not all about excersing. They give great tips on makeup and clothes. Check it out! More reviews
- No delivery
- I ordered this and was told I would receive the Feb issue. I have not yet and it is the middle of the month. I received another magazine ordered the same day at the beginning of Feb More reviews
- Self subscription
- Received my first issue within a month. Lots of good articles to keep me healthy. More reviews

