Reality magazine turns six

The 73rd issue of Pink, distributed with The Times tomorrow, marks its sixth anniversary. And six years down the line, it has remained “a magazine for women, about women, exploring and celebrating women in their multi-faceted forms”.

This month is no exception, with a host of real stories of real people, who are really persuaded to relate their lives. They are not the obvious personalities, who have done the rounds and always seek the limelight anyway, but the women in the street, who are just going about their business until Pink thinks they really have a story to tell and gets them to tell it.

This month, a mother who suffered from encephalitis and a spate of ensuing complications is, fortunately, fit enough to talk. Over the course of the year, she could barely recognise her three children due to her illnesses.

But she has lived to tell the tale in PrivateEye, which chronicles the numerous sicknesses, surgical interventions, hospital stays in Malta and the UK, while shedding light on what happens when the brain is inflamed and how the support of a family can be part of the cure.

The idea of interviewing Maltese women who work in Libya to see what life is like for a Westerner in that part of the world has been brewing in Pink’s head for a while now. The resulting story in WomensWorld shows how much these emancipated ladies love it and why!

Pink also meets women who were not afraid of an age difference, marrying men considerably older, or younger, and bridging a gap that many would fear too wide.

The downside of beauty and cleaning products is revealed in a focus feature that sheds light on what women are flushing down the drains, where it is going and the damage it is causing. Practical tips on how to go green in areas that are hardly ever considered could bring about some simple lifestyle changes that could actually have an important impact on the environment.

Fashion continues to play a major role in the magazine as the show-stopping photo shoot spans 10 pages and showcases two up-and-coming models, while trends, accessories and hip tips spell out what to wear this Christmas.

And the monthly appointment with its regulars remains fixed, with horoscopes, humour, more health, homes and history, books and beauty, cars, cookery and culture, psychology and social events, as well as the chance to win a shopping spree to the Guess stores in the world’s fashion capitals – Milan, London and Paris!

Published by Allied Newspapers Ltd and printed by Progress Press, Pink is produced by Mediamaker. Its executive editor is Fiona Galea Debono and it is designed by Helen Cassar ­Torreggiani and Joseph Schembri.