Tanya Sweeney: Women’s magazines in the Noughties showcased a gilded, glossy lifestyle – but Gen Z has moved on

I recently bought a women's magazine for the first time in a long time and it was a depressing read. Photo: Getty

Tanya Sweeney

In 2008 I was – to paraphrase the movie 13 Going on 30 – 30, flirty and thriving.

Like that film’s main character Jenna, I was working on a woman’s magazine, a job I’d longed for as soon as I realised it existed. The magazine was the newly published Stellar and I was hired as its first contributing editor.