Is it possible that more than one Hollywood executive is injecting Botox to the brain?
We ask this because the Hollywood Reporter revealed plans for a new E! reality television series called Bridalplasty. The show will feature a bevy of brides competing for the grand prize of having an extreme plastic surgery makeover, which will be unveiled on their wedding day.
Each week, the show will feature wedding related contests with the winner getting to choose a single procedure from her plastic surgery 'wish list.'
THR goes on to report,
At first blush, the opportunities for amusement are great: A show where the loser gets eliminated and the winner gets knifed. We must admit this appeals to our schadenfreudean impulses. Plus, it make gifts for the wedding party simple: breast implants for bridesmaids and phalloplasty for groomsmen.
We make it a policy to not judge those adults who have a little nip here and a little tuck there, (there is even a section in our book about how to get the most bang for your plastic surgery buck), but we do draw the line at creating life-size Barbies. Further, to suggest to women, and particularly to young girls (this is a show for BRIDES, after all, who are statistically in their mid-twenties) that the ultimate feminine ideal, as realized on a wedding day, is to have plumped-out lips, big fat tits, no wrinkles, no moles, perfect curves, or no curves -- in other words, no pockets of 'imperfections' -- well, this is just plain sick.
We've been railing against the fashion and media world for their unrealistic portrayal of women. In Bring Back the Belly, and A Velveteen Revolution, we called on the fashion industry and media, to stop perpetuating idealized and unhealthy body images to our young girls. In our book, Bitches on a Budget, we say, "Wake up, look around-in this multi-culti world we live in there's no longer a single icon of beauty. A woman with a hip modern aesthetic doesn't settle for just loving her inner bitch; she knows the outer one is fine too, whatever her shape!"
Bridalplasty is the ultimate in perversion. The idea that through invasive and 'extreme' plastic surgery you will be pleasing your future life mate at the altar with the gift of 'perfect beauty' is a frightening message to our daughters. Scarier still, is 'reality' television a true reflection of our culture? Or is it fiction creating our reality?
Either way, this time, Reality TV has gone too far.
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