--- title: People Magazine Beautiful Issue Cover Star Is Pink in 2018 description: People has unveiled their cover star for the 2018 'Most Beautiful' issue: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Pink. canonical: https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-18T14:52:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T11:35:05.000Z og:title: This Is People's Beautiful Issue Cover Star for 2018 og:description: Pink takes the title as this year's cover star in People's Beautiful Issue og:url: https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97004839fe8d07df/69892df9929fad52e0bf04bd/pink-grammys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is People's Beautiful Issue Cover Star for 2018 twitter:description: Pink takes the title as this year's cover star in People's Beautiful Issue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97004839fe8d07df/69892df9929fad52e0bf04bd/pink-grammys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is _People_'s Beautiful Issue Cover Star for 2018 > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Jan 24, 2024 11:35 AM UTCPublished: Apr 18, 2018 2:52 PM UTC  Recording artist Pink attends the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. Recording artist Pink attends the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. Steve Granitz—WireImage  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Jan 24, 2024 11:35 AM UTCPublished: Apr 18, 2018 2:52 PM UTC Pink’s latest album may be called [_Beautiful Trauma_](http://time.com/4895437/pink-what-about-us/), but in the eyes of _People_ Magazine she’s officially the cover star for the [2018 Beautiful Issue.](http://people.com/peopletv/video/bs/00000162-d69b-d960-a767-f6df60320000/pink-how-im-raising-strong-kids/) The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who most recently performed the National Anthem at [Super Bowl](http://time.com/5132704/pink-national-anthem-super-bowl-2018/) LII, received a Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMAs and a[ Grammy nomination](https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/winners-nominees/287) for Best Pop Solo performance and has been in the midst of a high-energy national tour, was announced as the cover star on Wednesday. Pink follows 2017 Most Beautiful star [Julia Roberts](http://people.com/movies/julia-roberts-worlds-most-beautiful-woman-2017/) and 2016’s [Jennifer Aniston](http://people.com/celebrity/peoples-most-beautiful-past-cover-stars/#jennifer-aniston) with the coveted cover. She shares the cover this year with her two kids: [Willow](http://time.com/5123520/rihanna-pink-daughter/), six, and [Jameson](http://time.com/4738759/pink-breastfeeds-son-jameson-hiking/), who’s one. Pink, besides being one of the world’s best-selling recording artists, has long been a vocal celebrity. She shared a [powerful speech](http://time.com/4918579/pink-vma-speech-daughter-transcript/) at last August’s MTV VMA’s with a message to her daughter Willow, who said she didn’t feel beautiful. “They say I look like a boy or I’m too masculine or I have too many opinions, my body is too strong,” she recalled in her speech. --- > “” --- With this cover, looks like she’s doing just that. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/"},"headline":"This Is People's Beautiful Issue Cover Star for 2018","datePublished":"2018-04-18T14:52:53.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T11:35:05.000Z","description":"Pink is one of the world's best-selling artists — and now also a Most Beautiful cover star","url":"https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97004839fe8d07df/69892df9929fad52e0bf04bd/pink-grammys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97004839fe8d07df/69892df9929fad52e0bf04bd/pink-grammys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"60th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals","caption":"60th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Steve Granitz—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5244718/people-most-beautiful-2018-pink/","name":"This Is People's Beautiful Issue Cover Star for 2018"}}]}] ```