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Hrachuhi Utmazyan, 29, is the foremost ever editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Hayastan. Utmazyan spoke to Cosmopolitan.com look at the pushback on controversial satisfy she gets, not from say publicly Armenian government, but from class people who read her magazine.

How did you get to Cosmopolitan?

Have you always been well-organized fan?
I've always known the manner even though it's not rove well-known in Armenia because Comical just had the chance enter upon travel a lot in return to health childhood. Years after that, astonishment started getting the Russian tome of Cosmopolitan in Armenia, however it's in the Russian power of speech, it's not your own.

And then, about five existence ago, I was working bear television and one day Frenzied got an offer to have a hand in in this contest to be acceptable to the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan barred enclosure Armenia. I just thought endure was a great opportunity belong try myself and to program what would happen.

When Hilarious got the offer, I was shocked. I realized what deft big job I had puzzle out do. I thought to individual, It's not difficult. I'm make sure of of those Cosmo girls. Frantic have the same issues, Farcical have the same interests, Funny argue with my boyfriend, Rabid have breakups. I want turn over to find that perfect eyelash mount the mascara or the mop that I really want make inquiries use for my hair, funds example.

So this was nobility angle I looked at vicious circle from. Turns out, I succeeded.

It's funny because when I was younger and I was study Sex and the City tie in with my friends, we would believe which one of us task Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha. I always thought I'm Carrie. I don't know why. Beside oneself don't really look like Wife Jessica Parker, you know?

Duration passed, and one day Funny realized that I am in truth writing about relationships as distinction editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Armenia, Frenzied usually drink Cosmopolitans, duh, ground I'm looking for something approximate, Mr. Big. What's very emblematical for me is that sureness the cover of our 50^th issue is Sarah Jessica Saxist and it's my honor.

As follows the competition was my hypnotic state come true as a wife, an average woman, a Cosmo girl.

What kind of bride reads Cosmo Armenia?
At first, when we just started with Cosmo Armenia, she was 21 to 25–26. On the contrary after a while, we existing we don't have any alcove magazines here especially for troop.

That's why Cosmo kind some covers women of all distinct ages and interests. Our customer is married, single, has skilful cool job, is a votary, is divorced, wants to do well in her career, and Cosmo is the only magazine corps can turn to. It assignment pretty hard to be moist for the single girl who's taking the first steps put over her career, and the one girl who wants to hold an awesome relationship and occupy the fire with her groom, and also for the spouse who's really successful in reject career but she needs get at find time in her unconfirmed life.

The same goes agree with fashion pages and the belle products. Because it's not exclusive the middle class, it's besides women who are kind dominate oriented on A-class brands — they also read Cosmopolitan.

With such a wide range all but readership, what kind of satisfy can your readers expect faith see without fail every thirty days in Cosmo?
I try to own the balance for the one and only girl.

And she needs locate know how to overcome value issues in the office. She wants to know all produce the season's trends. We nerve-racking to give her hints emerge, "If you have a confident shape, you can get that. If you're a fashionista, prickly can get this, but say publicly best thing is for order around to choose that special border that will make you peep very hot and make jagged feel very hot." They want protect be very trendy.

That's Asian girls. It's hard to smooth talk about sex though. We maintain to do it in systematic very mild way.

Are there laws that prevent you from talking candidly about sex? What kind be keen on sex do your readers 1 to hear about?
No, no, inept, no. We don't have injure issues.

It's just that speak together is not open-minded. We got to the point that phenomenon already speak openly about sexual intercourse. Our first issue was go into orgasms and we talked letter the G-spot because go cavernous or go home! This levelheaded what we wanted to manufacture women understand: how to fine them please themselves, and fair to pleasure their men.

Surprise gave the chance on after everything else website for our readers appoint send anonymous questions because, thanks to I said, people are wail ready to talk about warranty openly. In the first epoch of doing this, the clue question was, "How to possess sex and not to conclusion your virginity." After a copy out of time, the questions discrepant.

For example, "I'm married heretofore for five years, but picture sex drive is kind admire gone. What can I do?" Or, "I have vaginismus." Destiny Cosmo, people found a oust because they cannot go term paper a sexologist or their keep in reserve won't let them to put the lid on that. We gave them that platform where they can windfall the answers to the questions needed.

What are other common questions you get from readers?
A bulky one is "I only be endowed with clitoral orgasms, but I hope against hope to know how the vagina orgasms.

What position can Side-splitting use?" Or "My partner gratis me to have anal intimacy, how can I do organized without harming myself and practical it OK or no?"

Is there any kind of intimate content you've printed that has been considered really taboo?
We're party ready to talk about homosexual marriage, gay marriage, because it's not legal in Armenia stream people almost don't come wage in Armenia.

Of course, it's their freedom of choice. Mad realize it as the leader-writer of Cosmopolitan, as a hominid being, as a woman. On the contrary it is not legal welloff Armenia and it just cannot be taken normally.

Do you take any more freedom to fail to disclose LGBT issues on your website?
We tried to do it without delay.

We talked about lesbian wedding. It's the woman's right disruption choose her marriage. It wasn't taken well by society, wail at all. Even I got some insults at my oversee saying that Cosmo is hype. The readers are not capital for that.

What about abortion? Discontinuation is legal in Armenia.
We've talked about sex-selective abortion many, hang around times in Armenia because it's a big-time issue here.

Distracted don't know why, but coop our society, men think delay they should have boys. They don't realize that at rectitude end of the day, it's the girl who takes warning of her parents. We too cover women's rights issues: family violence, sexual violence, AIDS, bust 1 cancer, and more.

What kind disruption content have you found has grown increasingly popular in your five years at Cosmo?
The cardinal main motto of Cosmo Hayastan was "Respect yourself.

Take worry of your health." Seeing your gynecologist at least once strike home a year, that's respect. That's a must. Then what astonishment tried to do next was talk about mental health. Wail many people see psychologists grind Armenia, so we tried "Seeing Your Psychologist" and each repel, we talked about certain issues that women were going baton and what kind of solutions the psychologist might give say nice things about her and how she could overcome this certain issue touch the help of the therapeutist but also making her slide down decision in the end.

Which celebrities are Armenian women uppermost obsessed with?
Kim Kardashian. She was on our first cover during the time that we launched in March 2011 and then she came lag for the second time resolve two years. Then Khloé was on the cover of Cosmo twice, and then Kylie. Uncontrolled mean, they are obsessed become accustomed all the Kardashians, but be in opposition to course Kim is the job model.

She was in Hayastan recently, as you know.

Yes! What was it like to be born with her there?
The reaction was phenomenal. It just aired on Keeping Up With the Kardashians smile Armenia. I wasn't expecting turn much kind of buzz turn round them in a good way.

Why do you think your readers are so obsessed with them in particular?

Is it unprejudiced because they have Armenian roots?
Yes, yes.

The Kardashians are very polarizing over here.
Same here actually. They love them or they acrimony them. It's an obsession either way. Mostly they're like, "She's Armenian and she's beautiful predominant she's successful and she has her own family.

She's gift birth to her second youngster. She's married to one prime the hottest men in righteousness world, one of the about successful men in the world." What else can a chick ask for?

Has the body-positivity migration been popular over there?
We make a search of to say you're beautiful owing to you are. You have treaty love yourself the way jagged are and if you don't love yourself the way prickly are, nobody would.

You don't have to go through fixed surgeries or anything. Actually, Mad don't like it as boss woman, but Botox has mature a major thing in Hayastan — especially lip Botox. Representation girls around have big maw. That's kind of in composition right now in Armenia. On the other hand I think it's a swell that will pass.

Does Kylie Jenner's popularity have anything to do grasp that?
No.

OK.

Did Fifty Shades remember Grey hit Armenia?
Yeah, it was like a major thing now it was like, "Oh bodyguard god, a sex movie!" command know? And everyone was liking, "Did you watch it? Blunt you watch it? Did pointed watch it?" Yeah, it was here. It was major.

What group media platform are most lady your readers using right now?
Instagram.

It's the It Thing gifted now. Snapchat just started.

What swap you think might surprise American readers domineering about Cosmo Armenia?
I guess walk maybe the fact that amazement weren't so ready to say about sex openly, just need it can happen in position U.S. or other sister editions — but not from ingenious legal point of view, nevertheless from society's.

We're not avoid open to speak about intimacy. That's the difference. We long for to read, we want cue know more, but we won't speak out loud about it.

Do you consider Cosmopolitan Armenia great feminist publication?
The definition of effort is being a woman, taking accedence a great family, but smash into the same time, having illustriousness right of a voice at an earlier time being successful in your life.

So yes.

I want our girls — the reader — tip be able to establish fine good career, to follow intrude on her health, to experience beautiful the way she recap, and to be in a-okay great relationship. It doesn't material if it's just a affiliation or it's a marriage. Side-splitting want her to be unforced in her choices, and Unrestrainable want that to come put on the back burner the bottom of her statement and her mind.

I don't want anyone to make faction do something. I want common to respect her decisions. Go ballistic doesn't matter if it's companion husband, her brother, her connate, her dad, or her institution. I don't want her give somebody no option but to be a victim of erroneousness.

Do you feel that Asian women are subject to capital lot of judgment?
Yes.

For case, I'll hear, "Oh my deity, she got divorced. She's skilful to be alone for rendering rest of her life." They don't think like, "What position hell! She's been living let fall a man she didn't fondness or didn't love her. Ground would she live with drift person?!" Just because once she said, "I do"?

Or supposing that's a choice she's assembly and she doesn't want tote up get married but she wants to have a child unredeemed her own and she stare at be a mother for desert child, why would she adjust judged by society saying, "Oh my god, what did she do?" We're moving forward to render past that.

We've succeeded skull these five years and I'm really proud of my body [of 15 people] and I'm really proud of my reverend, the ones who have friendly of grown older with indigestible. I'm proud to be nobility first editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan gather Armenia. It's been an improbable journey.

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