<![CDATA[Gawker: Sweet Valley High]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Sweet Valley High]]> http://gawker.com/tag/sweet valley high http://gawker.com/tag/sweet valley high <![CDATA[ Random House Proudly Promoting Eating Disorders ]]> Picture 2-16To publicize the re-release of teen fiction series Sweet Valley High, Random House Children's Books sent a letter to journalists highlighting the changes made to the content of the 1980s paperbacks. New cover girl Leven Rambin (pictured) was not mentioned, but just to make sure preteen and teenaged girl readers are sufficiently insecure about their bodies, the publisher made the "perfect" clothing size a couple of notches more restrictive. It seems kids in the 80s lived by totally fat standards. Also, Sweet Valley High students now have their own anonymous blog, presumably to hatefully bully the fattest of their classmates. Here's a helpful chart from the Random House letter, followed by the letter itself:

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Full letter:

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]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:17:52 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5004617&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ New <i>Sweet Valley High</i> Cover Girl? Soap Star Leven Rambin! ]]> Now this is actually awesome: a fameball turning on itself in such convolution that the snake eats its own tail. Remember Sweet Valley High, the 80s young-teen series about a pair of California twins named Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield? They went to Sweet Vally High, and although they looked exactly the same, their personalities were actually quite different! (Jessica was the slutty one, and Elizabeth liked to read and write.) Well, Random House is releasing them with new designs in April, and the book's cover gal, posing as both Elizabeth and Jessica, is our favorite seventeen-year-old All My Children actress/Julia Allison boyfriend-stealer, Leven Rambin! The old and new covers of Double Love and Secret, which we remember all too well, follow.

While Leven models as both Elizabeth and Jessica on the SVH covers, you'll remember that on All My Children she plays both the autistic Lily Montgomery and her older half-sister, Ava. It's this sort of thing that will get you nominated for a Daytime Emmy!

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]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:53:59 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=372581&view=rss&microfeed=true