Ten Years Younger!

In response to Vicki's post on 'Im disturbed by The Swan,' i totally agree with the idea of reality tv becoming too obsessed with the way people look.

I too, had never seen an episode of The Swan, so was shocked at what women put themselves through to live up to the expectations of others - the need to be 'perfect.'

The New Zealand made show 'Ten Years Younger' has the same sort of idea as these other shows, but for most of the participants, surgery is not needed. Along with a new wardrobe, makeup tips, a new haircut; botox, their teeth fixed and cosmetic surgery can be done. In this way it seems very much like 'Extreme Makeover' or 'The Swan,' but in other ways its not quite to the full extent. I think that people just go for the easy option offered by these American tv shows, without attempting exercise if overweight or looking after their skin on the outside etc. 'Ten Years Younger' is trying to make people look more their age, as a number of people look older than they are from smoking, baking in the sun, or their hair going grey early and so on. It seems that there are a number things that can be tried before going under the knife! So im not sure that this programme has as many negative aspects as the others, other than the fact that people arent happy with the way they look and always have the need to 'look better.'

Programmes like these too, i believe, make the contestant or participant sound and look so much worse than they actually are! At the beginning of the programme someone is always going on about how the 'desperately need help' by exaggerating their flaws and making out that they cant continue to live the way they are!!

But i agree...there definately needs to be more emphasis on personalities or beauty within rather than external beauty!