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#ThrowbackThursday: A Reader’s First Issue of InStyle Longtime reader Kristin Mika, founder of , is celebrating our 20th birthday with us! In recognition of our big 2-0, she dug up her first?InStyle issue from 19 years ago, reminiscing the events of that historic day on her blog : "I was reading the new InStyle magazine (the June issue) by the pool this weekend and noticed they are getting ready to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. "I have my first issue of InStyle from October 1995. I picked it up at an airport bookstore (I can’t remember where I might have been traveling in Sept/Oct 1995); I vividly remember seeing the magazine. While I didn’t recognize the name of the magazine, I noticed my girl Jackie O on the cover and snatched up a copy. I have been reading it ever since!” We’ll toast to that! , and our InStyle.com photo editor Alex Reside made her recreate .