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A Little Skin Sells a Lot of Magazines

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Jennifer Aniston's January 2009 GQ issue is the latest in a long line of magazines, both women's and men's, to use a little skin to sell, hopefully for the publisher, a lot of copies.
GQ is not just hoping that Jen Aniston sells copies - they know she does. The actress is legendary for upping newsstand sales, and has appeared on GQ several times, including this cover in 2005.
Sometimes sex and politics do mix. The Dixie Chicks chose to make a political statement and show some skin at the same time on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
Demi Moore made a famous splash in 1991 when she posed 8 months pregnant for the cover of Vanity Fair. The issue is one of Vanity Fair's highest selling ever.
Sometimes magazine covers are sexy just for sexy's case, as is the case every single month for lad mag Maxim magazine.
Keira Knightly has been adamant that her photos on covers not be airbrushed or retouched.
Nicole Kidman is expert at leaving a little something to the imagination, as on this Rolling Stone cover. (Nice hat!)
Britney has made a virtual living showing just enough on magazine covers from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair.
Fashion magazine covers were once the sole province of fashion models. Not any more. Giselle Bundchen is one of the few models left who can sell a cover. Most fashion publications now use actresses and singers to sell copies.
Recreating famous shots from days gone by is a well-worn cover concept. Here Lindsay Lohan channels a sexy Marylin Monroe for New York magazine. In a sign of changing times, when these photos went up on the magazine's web site, they crashed their servers, and then became their most trafficked feature ever.
Showing a little skin on a magazine cover is a great way to change a celebrity's image. Mariah Carey was in the middle of transforming herself from squeaky clean to sexy songstress when she did this Interview cover.
Paris Hilton doesn't grace many covers, because she does not move copies. This sexy 944 cover is an exception.
Rihanna's sexy FHM cover was one of their highest selling ever. But not high-selling enough, the magazine folded soon after.
Two sexy actresses stripped down on one cover? Doesn't happen often, which makes this Rolling Stone cover an anomaly.
Sienna Miller channeled 1960s icon Twiggy for her Interview cover shoot.
Ironically, the most famous nude celebrity cover of all time - is of a dude. John Lennon took it all off for his Rolling Stone cover shoot with fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono.