“Sex” is actually pretty far down the list.
BuzzFeed looked at all tabloid covers for the last year, using Jezebel's Midweek Madness feature, to see how often certain words showed up. We counted the appearances of a variety of important words (we left out things like "the" and "her" and focused on some major nouns and verbs) to find out what showed up the most. The above is what a cover might look like (this one's fake!) if it combined ten of the most common ones. And the top ten:
10. "Diet"
Diet showed up 25 times in BuzzFeed's count, earning it tenth place among the words we looked at. So cover lines like "Inside her dangerous 4,200-calorie-a-day diet" (about Kim Kardashian, naturally) were common, but not that common.
9. Divorce
We counted 30 mentions of the word "divorce." So splits like Bethenny Frankel's are of concern to tabloid editors, as are possible causes thereof:
Via: gossipdavid.com
8. Cheating
Cheating was mentioned slightly more often than divorce — 34 times.
