the magazine, she did a complete redo. >> helen gurley brown represented the intellectual woman who was liberated and was empowered by her own independence and her self-worth. >> for her first cover which was the july 1965 issue, she puts this model named renata beck right on the cover with large breasts and big blond hair in a very kind of like sexual expression on her face, and she wanted to project the image of "cosmopolitan" as shaking things up. >> "cosmo" was all about giving women permission to be as sexy and sexualized, and articulate about their own sexuality as you wanted to be. >> this was one of the first times in this country that anyone had come out speaking about sex so frankly and honestly and out in the open. >> i did several of the covers myself. they were daring. i remember walking in for one of them, and they handed me what looked like a bunch of strings and they said, here's your