Extreme Makeover Home Edition is lovely.
But, remember the original Extreme Makeover? Where they brought in awkward looking shut-ins, took pictures of them in their underwear, and then a gaggle of shiny looking doctors came in with laundry lists of body parts they would replace.
Not that there was anything wrong with them OMG if we could just replace every visible part of their body they could maybe be allowed back into society with us normal looking people.
It was a low self esteem shit fest! They try to distract us with this screamy, sun damaged guy with a megaphone who swoops in to help needy families rebuild homes and we all cry, but you can’t fool me, ABC.
I remember.
New chins, saggy knee lifts, perkier boobs, butt implants, fat suctioning, all new teeth, hair extensions, daily injections of 3rd world albino orphan blood.
For weeks these poor people stumbled around wrapped in bandages, living on dehydrated army rations, not allowed to look at themselves in the mirror.
Remember those people?
Is it just me, or are you dying to know what they look like now?
It’s like seeing those people who get full face transplants or youtube videos of gorillas who smoke cigarettes.
I just can’t help myself.
Ohh, yes. I remember. And I also would really like to know what they look like now!
How about the show “The Swan”? Now that was seriously messed up… though I totally got sucked in to it EVERY week.
OMG ME TOO! I mean, let’s totally fuck with people’s faces, then make them compete in a fake beauty pageant on tv OMG BRILLIANT!
I mean,the hair extensions alone were thousands of dollars, who can keep up with that? I can’t even pay my water bill on time!
Such a sad look at what is deemed beautiful in our society… Hey you, you’re ugly, let’s nip, tuck and transform you, so you can be beautiful. And we will make you cry and feel terrible about yourself the whole time!
But still I watched it. Damn reality TV.
I wonder what they look like now. No way they were able to keep up with all that maintenance.
OMG did you ever see the one with the couple who got DUAL Makeovers? It was all weird and awkward and when they finally met and kissed I was scared their faces would fall off.
Wonder if they’re still married?
Great, now I do ALSO!
This needs to be done, who knows someone at ABC?
Ugh, that show was a train wreck! And PS: I totally secretly wanted to be on it…….and maybe still do.
Dude, I totally would, except I am like, totally freaked out from those body fluid drains they make you wear after surgery.
HURL.
That show was awful! And I got sucked into it more times than I want to admit. When the home show started, I felt a little squeamy watching it, like all of the sudden a plastic surgeon would pop out of the fancy new home that no one could afford to keep up with and force everyone in the family to have new chins.
I still have flashbacks.
I think it WAS that way at first. Like they swooped into these people’s lives who were struggling at home, redid their current homes into ridiculous, flamboyant circus spectacles, and that upped their taxes, utilities and upkeep costs so much, they eventually always lost their homes. I remember reading an article about it.
It’s why now, they work hard to get their mortgages covered and extra money in hand. I am assuming.
OMG! My friend and I were just talking about how we wish we knew what those people from Extreme Makeover and The Swan look like now! And, more importantly, if they’re still with the spouses/significant others they were with when they started the show. Also, did the SO get work done to match?
I was all irritated because I wanted to know what someone looked like 10 years after a complete transformation, but my friend consoled me by reminding me that I’ll always have Heidi Montag to look at 10 years from now.
I watched the Swan each week and it was definitely a mix of fascination and horror! I remember one episode where the woman sees her small children after the “makeover,” and one of them started crying and wouldn’t let her come close! Eeeek… The trauma to their poor children! But still I watched and was somewhat disappointed when it was cancelled…
Weirdly enough one of my former student’s (I teach 8th grade) mom was on that show. I actually didn’t have the student until a couple of years after his mom was on the show. She still looked good, but not all shiny and new like she did when she was revealed on the show. The sad thing was that some kids still teased her son about it saying how ugly his mom used to be and how now she was a MILF.
I was thinking about just this thing the other day. I would love to know where those people are now and how their lives changed and if they were able to keep up with their new look.
Remember “the Swan”? The same thing but with the horror of a beauty pageant thrown in. I actually think that’s where Ty Pennington got his start. He was the season one winner.
That show was a guilty pleasure for me too! ….the thing that kept me from trying to be on it was that there is NO WAY I’m gonna take a picture in my panties in front of the entire country.
I remember that show and yes, it totally tells the world that society definitely has standards in order to gain acceptance! I mean, I have had a tummy tuck and I am glad they feel better about themselves but the message the show screams…