14 DAY TRIAL // The latest issue of Cosmopolitan magazine has Lea Michele of “Glee” on the cover, wearing a black dress whose neckline plunges almost to her belly button. Parents are all up in arms over it, saying it’s “offensive” for her to pose like that when her fanbase is made up of mostly kids and teens.
This is not the first time that Lea or other “Glee” stars come under fire for magazine shots that parents deem unacceptable given that their children are fans of the insanely popular show.
Last year, Lea, Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith posed for GQ and the editorial was so controversial that it even forced Agron to apologize for doing it in the first place.
Now, parents have something to say about Lea in Cosmo – her cleavage, in particular, Fox News reports.
“I think Lea Michele is sending the wrong message. She plays such a ‘good girl’ on ‘Glee’ and a lot of kids look up to her persona,” one mother says for Fox.
Cosmo may be an adult magazine but that’s not stopping kids from buying it, especially if they know one of their idols from “Glee” will be on it.
“Then she poses very provocatively on two magazine covers which makes my almost-13-year-old son very confused and offended,” the mother explains.
“I find it frustrating as a parent who is trying to teach right from wrong to their kids and then you have things like this happen,” she adds.
Of course, Fox News writes, Lea is a 24-year-old adult woman only playing the part of a highschooler, so, as a woman, she’s entitled to wear whatever she wants and pose for whichever magazine she likes.
But that doesn’t change the fact that she should at least consider her fans, those (little) people who have made of her a star, pop culture expert and author Cooper Lawrence notes for Fox News.
“Lea Michelle may be an adult, but to pretend that she doesn’t know her fans are 11 is just ignorance. Why take the risk that even one teenager will get the wrong message of from her idol? Now she is just turning off the parents of these kids who are her future consumers,” Lawrence says.
Cosmopolitan stands by its decision to feature Lea on the cover in such a low cut décolletage. Lea was not immediately available for comment at the time of writing.