THE SWAN -SO SICKENING

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Hey girls:

Have not been on to post or answer any of the posts in two days as I

have been working and just so busy! I have gotten some overtime this

week so that will be nice on the paycheck!

GOOD LORD LAST NIGHT I WAS WORKING OUT AND TURNED ON THE TV AND WAS

FIRST DISTURBED, THEN DISGUSTED,THEN JUST BEYOND WORDS.THAT SHOW

CALLED " THE SWAN " IS AND HAS GOT TO BE TELEVISION AT IT'S LOWEST FORM

I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED. IT MAKES THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW

LOOK TASTEFUL!

Ok I will turn off my caps now, I would asume that you guys

understand my reason for the caps. It was to make sure my complete

and utter disgust was properly conveyed. I would be even more

surprised to find anyone on this group who won't agree with what I am

saying here. Has anyone else ever seen this program? i had heard

about it, or maybe seen an advertisement for it, and I believe

something I was watching, maybe some silly show that I like on VH1

called " the best week ever " ( this show is SO FREAKING FUNNY) anyhow

i had no clue what it was. I admit ok, I have watched a few reality

shows, just for the laughts, even though I know they are anything but

reality. BUT THIS SWAN SHIT! OOPS sory ladies I cannot realy contain

myself about this show.

for those who don't know what it is all I can say is that the concept

is they take maybe 20 women who are overweight, or who feel ugly, or

have MAJOR self esteem issues, and then they do all this plastic

surgery and for 3 months while this is going on they are not allowed

to see themselves, FOR 3 MONTHS NO MIRROR while this group of

supposed professional MEDICAL DOCTORS. Plastic surgeryons, therapists

etc etc this team sits there and evaluates these women, like they are

some type of object, and then THEY decided what they women need, can

you imagine this crap? The women just go wtih whatever the " TEAM "

comes up with. Some I guess had tummy tucks, boob lifts or implants,

nose jobs, chin tucks, teeth fixed,liposuction, blah blah blah. Hey

and don't get me wrong, I am not anti plastic surgery at all, I mean

I think breast lifts and chin tucks and allot of that stuff is

awesome if your chosing to do it, accept the risks etc. Implant, well

I am not supportive of that at all, chin implants, cheek implants,

breast implants, all that crap to me is dangerous and frightening.

But anyhow, they take these women and make them over, during that

time they cannot see their family or anyone from the outside, they

live together and the mirrors are all removed and it is just

completely insane. I wonder how much is true? I only watched last

night, which OH IT GETS BETTER, after all the surgery and the women

are all made over and wonderful, they get to see themselves. Then

they (THIS IS WHERE IS REALLY GETS WEIRD) then they chose like 16 out

of the 20 to be in this stupid pageant ya know, like miss USA or

something, only it is for the stupid title of the " swan " . Can you

just imagine having all this stuff done to you, just to be judged,

and then even after all the work they tell the ones who are not good

enough to be in the pageant BYE BYE, and send them packing.

I have to give some credit to the surgeons, they did make them look

better, but allot of what I saw is those silly before pics they

always take where the person looks like they just rolled out of

bed,no makeup, hair mussed up etc. Also it seemed to me that allot of

these women were not really as bad looking as they tried to make them

out to be and that had they tried just maybe working out and ya know

do it the real way, eat right, work out etc, that they would have

been able to save themselves all that surgery.

Anyhow that is what they did, then they did a pageant and the women

come out in swimwear, lingerie, evening gowns, etc etc ( i know by

this time I should have turned the channel) it is kind of like

looking at a car wreck, you should not look but you just cannot help

it.

They eliminated them down again, like miss usa or something, and then

again and then they finally picked one. The funny thing was the one

they picked was one of only 2 that did not get implants. Or at least

looked small in her bathing suit, they looked real/ She was pretty,

but like I said I think that some plastic surgery is great I honestly

would not be against nips and tucks and lifts, but to make such a

mockery of these women, to do it in such a crude way, i just found it

to be really sad and disgusting.

i wonder about them too, will any of the implanted ones get ill?

There were enough with implants and not just breat,chin ones,cheeks

blah blah

anyhow I just thought it was the saddest example of how this society

treats women, makes us feel insecure, shows us that the way to be

gorgeous is to go under the knife, rather than the honest way, the

real way, which is to work out, to eat right, to treat yourself good,

to wear makeup, dress nice etc, that is what i personally believe in.

Hey there is nothing wrong with wanting to look good, I love to look

nice, and I feel I do, I work out, I try to eat right, i color my

hair and I tan once a week, and I do things like that, and hell yeah

I did my breast lift, and if I get the saggy chin thing I would

probaly not be afraid to fix it with a tuck, anything like that is

fine, but where do we draw the line? When we start assembling people

like they are dolls or something it gets pretty sickening ya know.

What do you guys think? Am I off my rocker or do you all feel the

same?

I worked so hard to lose 60 pounds, I mean I worked my BUTT off, and

I have continued to work hard to stay this size, and i have managed

to maintain within 5 pounds this weight for 7 years! I think that is

doable for most women, and men actually, unless they have hormone

issues or things like illnesses where they cannot be active anymore.

I was blessed with two major things that helped me to stay slim, one

was being able to work out despite pain and sickness(at least most of

the time) and two, a determined mind and ability to push myself to

work out daily. Those are things I am grateful for because I know

that it is not that way for everyone, and I feel for those that I

know who struggle with weight issues. I have several freinds at work

that had gastric bypass surgery in order to lose weight, some people

think it is the easy way, or that it is cheating, to me it seems like

the hard way, but regardless of any of this crap, we are not just

what we look like and while I place allot of importance on how I look

I hope I am not solely judged on my looks! I know when I have been

brunette I def got treated differently than as a blonde, and when I

had implants, I got allot more long stares and creepy guys attention,

also women were uncomfortable around me, now I understand why too, I

never want to make other women feel shitty about themselves because

of how I look, and that is what I think those big boobs did to allot

of people, why would we want to do that to our sisters ya know?

Anyhow sorry for that big long rant, I really don't know what sent me

over the edge on that one ha ha, anyhow you are all beautiful ladies

inside and out! Some of you I have never even seen, but I know your

beautiful because I know the real you!

hugs to all

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