Plastic Surgery and Happiness: Thoughts on The Hills and Heidi Montag

I saw something on TV last night that saddened me, and really got me thinking. This was a "reality" TV show and the scene was a mother meeting her daughter for the first time since the daughter had plastic surgery. She actually had 10 procedures done, and had radically altered her appearance.

It was awful to watch, to see the pain of the mother as she gently got the daughter to explain what she had done, and then how she felt about herself after. Holding back tears, the mother asked "are you happy now?"

This morning Joshua and I were working on some material for a new program we are planning on launching, and we started talking about this show last night. As a therapist he had some very interesting thoughts on the subject and we realized that this discussion raised much bigger questions. So we recorded it and decided to quickly make it available to the community to test the response. 

Click Here To Listen:

http://blog.peertrainer.com/PONR_Bonuses/TH_3.mp3

Click Here to discuss this in the PEERtrainer community:

http://www.peertrainer.com/LoungeCommunityThread.aspx?ForumID=1&ThreadID=171992

Please let us know what you think about the subject matter as well as the format....

Comments

[Constance Bevitt]

Clicking on the link forced a download of "i tunes" software on my PC. (which I will have to uninstall after listening).

Please in future offer a choice for the classic "real player" or "windows media center" as listening device. If iTunes continues to be the only option, I'll not listen in future. Too much overhead to deal with.