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# Cosmo Goes For a New Feel With Maddie Ziegler This Summer
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/cosmo-maddie-ziegler-cover-06-2022/
- Published: 2022-06-15T17:00:37.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-15T18:07:18.000Z
- Description: She's lived a lot of life already.
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Cosmopolitan, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:20

First of all, I think [*Cosmo* has tweaked its font since last I looked,](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/aubrey-plaza-front-cosmos-holy-grail-issue-04-2022/) and they've definitely overhauled their vibe this year; I assume they're concerned that the *Cosmo* of yore just doesn't appeal to Gen Z (after all, Gen Z can get their weird sex tips for free on the internet; when I was a youth, we did not have that option). Ironically, I think their moving away from Classic *Cosmo* \-- big hair, cleavage, wind machine, leaning against a wall sexily -- has made them feel a little more generic? This cover could be *Harper's Bazaar.* Which is, of course, a compliment in the general sense: This is a very GOOD cover and it looks more high fashion than *Cosmo* has tried in the past, simply because high fashion was not *Cosmo*'s niche. Very cute outfits for dates was *Cosmo*'s vibe, and of course there was a big market for that! (The corollary was *InStyle*, RIP, where the vibe was Rich Married Lady.) But I don't know if stepping way away from your legacy brand is gonna do anything for a print mag at this point. As sad as that is to say. Regardless, it's a good cover. Maddie Ziegler obviously knows how to move.

[The cover story is very honest](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a40154362/maddie-ziegler-interview-2022/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), and to be frank, it low-key bummed me out in a way. Ziegler has been famous FOREVER and she's still incredibly young. I kind of want her to just take whatever money she's made -- which has hopefully been in a trust for her -- and go off to college and be left alone for a few years. *Dance Moms* was NOT good for this child:

> **Wow.**  
>  
> I did watch a little bit of an episode from the very beginning to show my boyfriend because I was like, “You cannot watch this, but I’ll show you what I looked like.” And we both were like, “This is sad. We need to turn this off.”

She talks a lot about how she's in therapy now, and seems to have excellent perspective on celebrity -- she comes across, over all, as a very good egg -- but as much as she claims to want to be an actor now (and I believe her), it's hard to read these pieces sometimes from my perspective as a middle-aged person and not think, "maybe go study anthropology for four years at a small college where people will leave you alone and then see how you feel." Anyway! It's a good profile.

The rest of the interior shots are pretty good, too, and worth an eyeball. This is quite a good shot:

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2022/06/COS040122FEACoverStory_008_WM-1655247632.png "COS040122FEACoverStory_008_WM-1655247632")

When we played with the parachute in PE as a kid, it was NOT this glamorous.

**Photos: Josefina Santos for *Cosmopolitan***