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Cosmopolitan - November 2016 UK

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READ<br />

TAVI<br />

GEVINSON<br />

Age: 20<br />

Nationality: American<br />

Who: The next<br />

media mogul.<br />

If you spent your 12th<br />

birthday playing Pogs,<br />

prepare to feel vastly<br />

inadequate. That was the<br />

age Gevinson started her<br />

first fashion blog, Style<br />

Rookie, which quickly<br />

gained 30,000 readers<br />

a day. It was followed,<br />

when she was 15, by<br />

Rookie Magazine, a<br />

website for teen girls,<br />

with articles from the likes<br />

of Lena Dunham and<br />

Judd Apatow. The former<br />

teen prodigy now splits<br />

her time between her<br />

half a million Instagram<br />

followers, acting in<br />

Broadway plays, singing,<br />

and speaking to teens<br />

through her 2012 TEDx<br />

talk – viewed over 1.27<br />

million times. The voice<br />

of a generation? We’d<br />

say so.

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