You don't need a surgeon, you need a therapist...

“My name is Jacqui. I contacted Living TV for an extreme makeover because I’d love to be able to stop hiding under all this hair and to start being the woman I’ve always wanted to be, instead of the teenage boy I dress like.
The only people who think women don’t need a larger chest are women who already have one. I’d love to be able to wear something glamorous, something sexy. But as you can see, you need a chest to go in there.”
[Television advertisement for Extreme Makeover UK]

You know, I nearly choked the first time I saw this advert. Why? Because the woman in question has bigger breasts than me, and she’s complaining about needing a larger chest?

Get a life, love.

These extreme makeovers have been driving me nuts. Granted I haven’t watched any of them, but the advertisements are enough to have me ranting at the television. Take this woman, for instance. There’s nothing wrong with the size of her breasts; the problem is all in her mind. If she thinks that you have to have large breasts in order to look glamorous then that’s an issue that’s better sorted out by a good therapist than by a plastic surgeon.…

I actually watched one of these shows the other day, ‘The Swan’ I think it was. Really, I should have known better, but I suppose it was morbid curiosity on my part. I spent the best part of an hour shouting at the television – they took two perfectly normal looking women (who, I grant you, would look better if they would just smile a bit more often), and over the course of the programme they managed to transform them into homogenous clones which failed to evince any outward signs of an individual personality. They ended up looking like Barbie dolls, which (I have to be honest) sickened me.

What these women really needed was to be told, in a suitably considerate manner, that there was nothing wrong with them that couldn’t be fixed with a smile and a more positive attitude. I swear, one of them was prettier before they started messing about with her face. They gave the same woman bigger breasts, when what she really could have done with was a reduction.

What’s the point of this little rant? Well, quite frankly I’m not sure. I think that this Chinese Proverb says it better than I ever could:

“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.”

04/05/2005 & 23/07/2005 ©