Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The Swan. I had heard absolutely nothing about it (is even Fox too embarrassed to market it?) and stumbled on it while bored last night. Deeply, deeply fucked up premise.

Each week they take 2 pretty average looking women with seriously fucked up body-image and self-confidence problems (i.e.: the women aren't secret hotties in need of a pep talk and a new hairdo, but they could look quite decent without surgery with some confidence and effort), and for 3 months subject them to serious cosmetic surgery and dentistry (they were getting full-body lipo involving some serious pounds and having 5 or 6 or 7 procedures done to their faces), put them on 1200 cal/day diets and ferocious work out regimes, and then let them see themselves in the mirror for the first time all dolled up with hair extentions and makeup.

And that's not even close to being the fucked up part. Just after seeing themselves, one of them is "cut" and told she didn't transform enough to get to go on to a beauty pageant at the end. At which, presumably, even the one who doesn't get dissed outright can have her newly built up artificial self image smashed into a million pieces by losing the competition.

And these women seem to be really fucked up about their looks, which are ... average. They do have a "therapist" on the team, but jesus fucking christ.

Only thing I can say in its favor is that the pacing is good - 2 girls every week, and a reveal at the end of every show, so you don't get bored. But where the fuck did they get surgeons willing to do this shit? This is some seriously exploitive shit, and there is NO WAY at least one contestant last night could have passed any sort of reasonably psych screening.

And, besides, it appears from one show that they will give all the girls horrible inflata-lips. Something tells me they will all come out looking like second-rank porn actresses.

This show is so utterly repulsive sounding to me that I could not watch. I recently saw on mTV " Iwant to look like britney spears" or something about this Britney impersonator (nojoke, and its a female not a male) getting fake tits so she can be a better Britney. Fucking psycho. But I am glad you are watching so you can sum it up every week.