around the world in 80 cosmo covers

... or very nearly. In February/March Shakira has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan editions in lots of countries, including:

-Turkey
-Czech Republic
-Malaysia
-Ukraine
-Mexico
-Colombia
-Romania
-Italy
-Finland
-Serbia
-Poland
-US Español
-Spain
-Bulgaria

So far I've only managed to find the edition from Spain.

Here's a montage of some of the covers created by ShakiLaTortura on the Shakira Rules Forum:




PS on closer inspection I think that the covers left of the middle aren't from this year, some of them look quite old.

ecos magazine

In Germany, there is a magazine in easy Spanish for people learning the language, called ECOS (from spotlight publishers, who also publish magazines in English, French, Italian ... ). In February this year they ran a 6-page feature about Shakira, complete with cover (and a wild mix of pix from different photoshoots).



I've been waiting for this for years, and of course I missed it when it finally happened, so now I ordered the issue from the publishers, and they sent it without problems. You can order your own copy
here

It costs Eur. 5.50 plus postage.

The magazines are actually quite good, generally (we have a subscription of the French one, ecoute, and buy ECOS whenever someone happens to be in Germany and finds one). Explanations and vocabulary are given in German, though, so the mags are less useful for readers coming from a different language background. Shame this kind of thing doesn't seem to exist for English speaking people learning other languages ...

marie claire

had a lucky day -- my son dragged me into a newsagent to buy sweets, and I discovered the August issue of Marie Claire (Spanish edition) with a lovely Shakira cover & interview. Well, yes I know it's an old photo, I have the issue of Blender with the same photo, but still. It's a great photo, and she doesn't turn up at the newsagent so often that we can be picky ...