Anna Wintour revolutionised the magazine industry when she started putting celebrities on the covers of her magazine in the early 1990s. But the downside to cashing in on the modern celebrity obsession is that at the end of the day, they’re not models.

And although most of the time we get really beautiful celebrity covers, from time to time it would appear that magazine editors are left with only vacant, startled, awkward or pained expressions to choose from.

Here are some of our favourites...

Above: Perhaps the Vogue title should be changed to Vague.  This a common celebrity cover issue, the blank expression.  The lights are on but no one's home.  Or is this a promotion for Marion's new role as a blind woman? 

I knew when I searched Kristen Stewart magazine covers I would find some goodies, and she didn’t disappoint.  I’m guessing what's happened here is they’ve tried to make her do the sexy vampire thing, but this just looks like the kind of ugly face you pull to your boyfriend to scare him.

If you’ve ever seen an interview with K-Stew, you’ll know she’s mega awkward in real life, and this pursed-lipped-awkward-mouthed Cleo covershot is a clear example.  For a potential explanation - read this.

It’s interesting that ‘hormones’ appears just above Jen’s head, because she looks a bodybuilder in this shot. Or maybe some kind of scary female wrestler. She was promoting her 2001 movie Rock Star at the time, so that explains the leather, but we still can’t excuse this.  And she knows it's wrong.

For years Jennifer has been telling us ‘don’t feel sorry me, my life really is great’, and we had actually started believing her, then she goes and pulls this expression and we're all back at square one.

I can appreciate that Jessica went out on a limb with the no makeup, no retouching thing going on here, but did these restrictions also include posing? This image looks like a bad test, not a cover shot.

JLo’s got a headache so BACK OFF.

Ok if JLo’s got a headache, then Kylie’s got a brain-crushing migraine. Look out.

This is the face you pulled in high school when pretending to parents you were too sick to go to school.  And they knew you were lying.  Mischa, this is Marie Claire's 20th anniversary issue, at least look a little bit happy about it.

Nicole, we love you, but this expression really isn’t making us want to buy this magazine.

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