The first cover I realised had a famous person as the cover model is Sweet Dreams #84 The Last Word by Susan Blake. Or were there just not enough teen boy models around at the time? Maybe they all wanted to be rock stars like Duran Duran or Bon Jovi. Surely romance means there should be more than one person on the cover. Many of the teen romance series only featured girls on the covers, which has sort of puzzled me. Peacherino at Cliquey Pizza 2 is a gem, her knowledge of 80s kids and teen books and other stuff is enormous. And some I found on a wonderful blog that is mostly about books from the 1980s, with a focus on the teen romance genre. Some I found out about recently when researching for this article. Some I have worked out who the now famous or almost famous person is, usually a woman who would have been a teen at the time of doing the shoots as a model. Over the last few years of selling teen romance books on ebay and on my website, Sweet Hearts Romance Books, I have spotted a few faces that sort of looked familiar.
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