Tina Turner scored her first-ever Vogue Magazine cover with the April issue of Vogue Germany. Can you believe it? Can you believe that this is the first time any edition of Vogue Magazine ever thought to Tina on the cover?! Tina is 73 years old, and with this cover, she has become the oldest woman to ever grace the cover of Vogue, beating out Meryl Streep’s January 2012 cover when Meryl was 62.
Tina was shot by photographers Claudia Knoepfel & Stefan Indlekofer and she wears an Armani gown on the cover. Tina is close with Giorgio Armani – he created the costumes for her 50th anniversary tour in 2008. While I think Tina definitely looks amazing and it’s wonderful to see her on the cover of Vogue, I do think she’s had some subtle work done, right? Am I hallucinating or do her eyes look different?
That’s all that I really know about this Vogue piece! I haven’t seen any interview excerpts or anything, but rumors are going strong that Tina is currently recording a new album for a possible release this year. Why not? Tina is desperately needed these days. She’s TINA! What else, what else… she has applied for Swiss citizenship after living in the country since the mid-1990s. Apparently, she will have to renounce her American citizenship (no dual citizenship for Tina, maybe?), and she’s already passed the civics test.
Some photos of Tina from 2011:
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I love Tina – who doesn’t have a soft spot for Private Dancer? – but this cover just emphasizes how bad and unoriginal those 60s/70s nose jobs were.
I also *think* that technically you can’t have dual citizenship between the US and most other countries (under most circumstances), but they don’t enforce the renunciation (sp?).
I work for the federal governnment and one of the projects I worked on involved hammering out certain issues with foreign governments (relating to American citizens who had moved abroad to those countries). There are actually quite a few countries that allow you to retain your American citizenship, although it becomes complicated for the person re taxation, Social Security, etc. Some do require you to renounce, though.
I actually figured Switzerland might be one of the countries that offered both. I’m a Brit, and we have to renounce one, I’m told, but nobody enforces it. Having both a European and US passport would be an awesome thing to have – not that Tina Turner needs to worry about work visas, one imagines.
Quite a few people have dual citizenship such as Charlize Theron US/South Africa, Pierce Brosnan Ireland/US, Salma Hayek, US/Mexico, Angelina Jolie, US/Cambodia, Natalie Portman US/Israel, Craig Furguson US/United Kingdom and Nicole KidmanUS/Australia and the list goes on.
@T.Fanty – unless it’s a recent development, Britain doesn’t ask you to surrender your other citizenship. I’ve got dual citizenship. Quite afew of my friends do too. The issue has never come up.
Huh. On the US citizenship lit I have it says that you are expected (or some such wording) to renounce your other citizenship. Good to know that you can have both. A lot of my Irish friends have both, too. It’s strange, because although I have lived here for years now, and don’t intend to go home, the thought of giving up my nationality is unsettling. Does that make any sense at all?
It depends on whether your naturalized as well. My cousin has US/German/Palestinian nationality. Born in the US, half German and half Palestinian. So there you go. Although Germany does have a rule of if you get naturalized you are sometimes asked to renounce citizenships.
Australia allows dual citizenship. I was under the impression, however, that the US does not – at least, that’s what all their stuff on the web says. I was pretty disappointed by this, because I’m planning to move to the US in the next few months, and I don’t want to have to renounce my Aussie citizenship.
Jay – I think you have to renounce your ‘allegiance’ to other countries, but that doesn’t mean you have to renounce your Aussie citizenship.
Both Switzerland and the US allow dual citizenship.
The U.S. citizenship oath requires you to renounce prior citizenship(s) but then they also allow you to keep your other passport. So yeah, it’s kinda unclear.
I love Tina Turner – she has great legs
It really depends on the birth government. I have friends who were Chinese Nationals who had to give up their citizenship when they were naturalized (Oh no those Communists!). However, my Canadian friends were able to keep theirs.
I’m not sure how it works for Americans but when I came to the U.S I was allowed to keep my other (two) citizenships and passports. I’d be sad to give any of them up.
I love this woman. Great to see here again. Now I have to go listen to her music!
I second that.
Beyonce’s mom reminds me of Tina. Do you really think she got work done. Maybe it’s just photoshop.
…and Beyonce’s mom is also named Tina.
It is really obvious she has had work done but I don’t care. I love me some Tina.
Yes Tina Turner got some work done because if you looked at the pics at the bottom of this page (circa 2011), she looks a heck of a lot different in the face. Tina, why did you mess up your face?
I love her, too but wish she would have left her face alone. She looks great in those 2011 pics!
Kinda shameful that it look so long for such a legend to get a Vogue cover.
So true, yet they put so many wannabes on their cover
She is such a sunshine person, sexy as hell but not a submissive female in the music business. I wish more female performers would take note of what she has done as an artist.
Oh, noes – I wouldn’t have even recognized her. Why change a single thing about that wonderful face?!?!
Me too, that thing on the cover doesn’t look like Tina Turner at all. So sad.
Cheek fillers. I think they’ve distorted her face. I wouldn’t have guessed Tina Turner, either, if this hadn’t been labeled.
I thought it was Paula Abdul with a bad wig!
Tina is fantastic, good for her although it’s pretty sad that it took so long to make it happen.
Ike busted Tina’s nose. She’s had that nose job since the 70’s. The new images look like her eyes were done.
I was just going to say this. Ike busted up her face and nose so many times, that she had to have a nose job.
I do think she might have gotten her eyes done, but I also wonder if she lost weight and this is photoshop.
She looks thin and fragile on the cover, very unlike the earlier photos. I hope she’s not ill.
I used to love Tina until I saw an interview of hers calling Africans lazy.
Here is the video: http://youtu.be/bMjyIOnWUlQ
So disappointed.
Her eyes and mouth look different. Whatever she had done completely changed the set of her face — she doesn’t even look like the same woman. 🙁
Well, I think it’s some crappy photoshop, too — she looks more like herself in the second pic — but for sure she’s had too much work done to mouth and eyes and cheeks, too. I’m with you … I wish she hadn’t. She had an iconic face.
Still, I’m always going to love Tina, even if she wears a bag over her head.
Go ‘head Anna Mae!!
Does anybody ever keep track of the oldest man on a magazine cover? Like, would Rolling Stone put out a press release saying that Keith Richards was the oldest person they’d ever featured, like it was some sort of noteworthy event? (In Keith’s case, it might be: that man is preternaturally preserved.)
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I came in to say that I find the title to this post to be disrespectful. The Oldest Lady? Rude.
If it had read Tina Turner makes Vogue’s cover and then discussed her age in the article, it may have been passable but this was in poor form.
I think she looks different because of significant weight loss. She’s older, so if she drops pounds, it’s noticeable. I think she looks fantastic. Send in photos when you hit your 70s and we’ll discuss how you look!
Cheers!
i would have thought german vogue would have had her a while ago. she’s very connected to germany.
germany is one country (because of ww2?) where dual citizenship is not allowed.
Most European countries including Germany allow dual citizenship, or allow you to keep your first when applying for another. I think in countries like India, Japan and China you automatically loose your citizenship when you apply for another.
That must be more recent because my mom had to give up hers when she married my dad (a US citizen). I’ve looked into how I could get dual citizenship but I am out of luck.
Dual citizenship is generally allowed if you do not become a naturalized citizen of another country. So if you mother is German and your dad is Canadian, then you can be a citizen of both. However if both your parents are Germans and you move to Canada where after 5 years you apply to be a naturalized citizen, you have to renounce your German citizenship.
Similarly they let you retain citizenships that you acquire at birth. My cousin has US/German citizenship because she was born in the US. If I apply for a naturalized citizenship, then the German gov will probably ask me to give up my passport. But there has been exceptions.
Basically if you are a national you can keep your passport but if you are naturalized you can’t.
I think it’s awesome, I respect her a lot.
Swiss law allows for dual nationality, but maybe she’d rather not deal with the US government since she no longer lives in the US or intends to in the future.
Maybe people wouldn’t if the US government gave up on that tentacle-like approach of trying to control the citizens that don’t live in US territory. You know, like most civilized countries, where you’re only accountable to them tax-wise for the stuff you own in their territory or money you earn in their territory…
This is so refreshing
Eat the cake Anna Mae!!
Maybe the drastic lightening of her skin tone on this cover is also adding to the change in normal appearance?
I would have thought someone as established as she would have avoided the Beyonce treatment.
If they’re are proud about putting a 73 year-old woman on the cover, then put a 73 year-old woman on the cover — not a supremely airbrushed / photoshopped hypothetical version of that woman.
baby steps…
they airbrush and photoshop every single person on their covers after all….lol
If you hadn’t said that was Tina Turner I never would have known.
I love this lady so much I might have just teared up staring at the Vogue cover. Such an inspiration and a true one-of-a-kind.
I love how she dances!
Go Tina~such an amazing woman. “Proud Mary” done by her is one of my faves!!
She looks good – but would have looked even better had she left her nose aloooone imo.
kinda…i guess? sort of…not really. Why wait so long to put an older woman?
how about this Vogue…how about a plus sized woman? a ‘real’ looking, attractive, woman?
I doubt that’ll ever happen in my lifetime. Quite sad. For Vogue to rally being the 1st fashion mag to put a black woman on cover, and now, an older woman only 30 PLUs SOME YEARS later…not really that commendable….
This beats the heck out of Taylor Swift. You go Tina!!!
Bravo all around. It may be late, but at least Vogue got there eventually.
I am always happy to see Tina.
That CAN’T be Tina Turner. What happened to her face?
She looks totally different and I’m sad.
The Beyonces of the world need to bow down to Tina Turner. Bitch showed them all how it’s done.
Dude, i’m finally buying a copy of Vogue!!! And it’s not even in a language I can understand. They’re finally getting it right. Not sure about the nose job… it would have changed her voice, y/n? For me, it’s how she’s behaved that characterizes what she looks like and not the image itself. Love her!!
Cool, though I do remember Casey Kasum (sp?) back in the 80s announcing that Tina Turner was the oldest woman to ever have a Billboard #1 hit when she was in her (gasp) mid 40s. So this must be “old hat” to her by now.
Love Tina; not loving the cover pic. What in God’s name is going on with her nostrils?
Iconic. The utmost. Ultimate. This total babe is an ispiration in everyway. Can you tell I’m a fan?
ugh… she’s completely unrecognizable. how sad.
this picture is a very BAD example of photo shopping.. Tina Turner deserves to be on more covers..
I love Tina! And she’s still totally hot.
I love her but that is not her beautiful/original face. So sad women do this. She looks like a Jackson.
I did not know that was her, she really looks different. Sad when Hollywood feels they have to change there face to remain young for the media.
if we all could have a relaxed job it would be nice but some of cant and look what all she had to put up with she look outstanding it all how we takecare of our body and skin
Go ‘head Tina. So good to see her but she looks more like a cross between Dihann Caroll and Lena Horne than herself on that cover.
There is nothing about Tina that isn’t fabulous. She’s a survivor, an amazing talent and a supercool woman! Go Tina!
There is nothing about Tina that isn’t fabulous. She’s a survivor, an amazing talent and a supercool woman! Oh, and p.s. still gorgeous.
She lost weight. That’s why she looks different. Older women need extra weight. It gives them a more youthful, rounded appearance. She’s still beautiful, though. Congrats to her.
OMG I love Tina, but she now looks like she used one of the Jackson girls plastic surgeon…this is sad.
I am so disturbed by this cover… yes, I like that Tina is on it b/c she’s awesome and talented and gorgeous and a fighter! And this world needs more older female role models!
But the photo has been so manipulated it no longer resembles her… or a human. She looks like an alien. Too much photoshop. Stop the photoshop.