Plastic surgery, therapy, a pageant: In 2004, ‘The Swan’ predicted reality TV’s future

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Plastic surgery, therapy, a pageant: In 2004, ‘The Swan’ predicted reality TV’s future
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'The Swan' was a spectacle called cruel and sadistic, but former contestants don’t really see it that way. The reality makeover competition foretold the era we live in.

Twenty years ago, Rachel Love took part in a bizarre televised experiment that transformed her — inside and out. It all began one morning as she drove to work in downtown Seattle. An ad came on the radio announcing a casting call for a new reality TV show about women who wanted to change their lives through plastic surgery and therapy. “I was at a really low point in my life,” Love told The Times in a recent phone call from her home in Las Vegas.

” Standing in front of a green screen in next to nothing, as a mostly male crew filmed her from every angle, “was the only time I actually felt sick,” she said. Alemi was so determined to get surgery to even out her asymmetrical breasts that she drove to a casting call in Philadelphia against her mom’s advice: “She’s like, 'I’m not trying to be mean, but you're not ugly enough for them to take you.

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