The 1980s saw a change in size to a regular magazine on glossy print (similar to Teen) designed by Randy Dunbar and Mark Borden.

Several years later, still another title change (this time to Young & Modern) under Bonnie Fuller's direction as editor-in-chief.

In early 2002, then editor-in-chief Christina Kelly announced that the magazine would no longer run articles about dieting.

The television series Pepper Ann was based on a comic strip by Sue Rose that debuted in YM.

The publisher was Gruner + Jahr before the assets of YM were purchased by Conde Nast Publications in October 2004.