Editor Gloria Leonard is credited with the idea to first publish revealing or scandalous images of celebrities in the magazine.

The success and increased sales of issues with "celebrity skin" led to the new publication.

[1] Over the course of its run, Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret and Barbra Streisand unsuccessfully attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them.

[2] The September 1999 issue of Celebrity Skin contained photographs of Jennifer Aniston sunbathing topless in her back garden.

The photographs also appeared in the December 1999 issues of High Society and Celebrity Sleuth.