Tony-Award-Winning Actress Katie Finneran Rings in the New Year on Jan/Feb Cover of VIVmag

NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Offering a fresh start for the new year, the Jan/Feb issue of VIVmag, the original all-digital luxury lifestyle magazine for women, is now live and ready to enjoy. The new issue includes interactive features on self-improvement, and style and beauty trends, including expert tips and new diet and exercise research to help inspire readers to get a jump on 2012.

Katie Finneran, two-time Tony Award winner and star of the new Fox comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter, graces this issue's cover and speaks about her decades-long career and how she knew she was destined to become an actor at 5 years old. Katie and actor husband Darren Goldstein (Damages) recently made the cross-country trek from New York to Los Angeles, where the Fox sitcom tapes. The new mom, who recently turned 40 and gave birth to son Ty on Feb. 3, 2011, feels a sense of contentment with her life: "I love being 40. I've never had an issue with getting older. All these years have taught me something and brought me to where I am today." 

"Starting a new year can be a trying time for a lot of people," said Anne M. Russell, editor-in-chief, VIVmag.  "Katie is strong, confident and beautifully self-accepting — something I think we all strive to be but can struggle with. With articles focused on healthy living, eating and exercise, this issue will help our VIVmag readers find their best selves and maintain healthy, happy, balanced lifestyles in 2012."

Features include expert advice on how to stick to diet and exercise routines, plan dream vacations on a budget, embrace the style trends for 2012, choose apps that aim to boost health and more:

• Dream Trips on a Budget: Can't quite swing Paris this year? Don't worry, we've found three overlooked locales as good as — or better than — their pricier cousins like New York City and Provence, France.
• 5 Apps to Boost Your Health: Want to lose weight? Master your mental state? Track your workouts? Whatever your goal is for 2012, there's an app for it.
• Eat Your Words: Gluten-free! Artisanal! Locally sourced! Watch for these trending food buzzwords on products and menus near you.
• Worst Celebrity Diet Resolutions: Eight stars confess their nutritional missteps: bad eating plans that left them hungry, crabby, even smelly. Our dietitian weighs in with better suggestions.
• 4 Exercise Rules You Need to Break: If you're following the tenets of fitness you learned a decade ago, it's time to toss those outmoded rules. Start the new year with a new style of training and achieve your goals in 2012!

"We are continually working to improve our readers' lives through inspiring stories and expert advice in every issue," said VIVmag's Global Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jeanniey Mullen. "There is no better time to focus on self-improvement, and this New Year issue of VIVmag hits it out of the park."

The Jan/Feb issue is now available to member subscribers via its dedicated iPad app, and through Zinio for the iPad, iPhone, Mac and PC.

About VIVmag
VIVmag is a leading women's luxury lifestyle media brand designed to enable women to celebrate their magnificence. VIVmag's core product is its all-digital, interactive magazine, which delivers reliable, accurate and inspirational journalism in areas that impact every woman's life: fashion, beauty, fitness, wellness and nutrition. VIVmag entertains and informs, helping women achieve the confidence that comes from engaging life at a higher level — from interactive exercise demonstrations to point-and-click purchasing power right from its pages. Through the VIVmagnificent Woman program, well-deserving, influential and inspirational women from around the globe are honored for their extraordinary achievements and tireless philanthropic efforts, and are connected with other magnificent women. VIVmag has attracted a circulation of 350,000 of the world's most influential women. To learn more about VIVmag, please visit www.VIVmag.com.

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