Bridalplasty: The newest plastic surgery

It’s official: western civilisation is going to hell in a hand-basket. Or is it just America? The most repugnant concept for a reality show (since the last most repugnant concept for a reality show) has just been announced by E! and it’s called Bridalplasty. It’s Bridezilla meets The Swan (clip of that below in case you’ve forgotten) meets seriously fucked up.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Each week, a group of women competes head-to-head in such challenges as writing wedding vows and planning honeymoons. The winner receives the chance to choose a plastic surgery procedure from her “wish list.” She’s given the procedure immediately, and results are shown at the start of the following week’s episode.

One by one, the women are voted out by their competitors and, according to the show’s description, “possibly walking away with nothing and losing [their] chance to be the perfect bride.”

The last bride standing will receive a “dream wedding,” where she will reveal her new appearance to friends, family and the groom. “

Are brides not nutty enough? Is it not disturbing enough that they subject themselves to crash diets and too much spray tan and more make-up than a Kardashian sister for their Big Day? Are we now going to directly make and encourage the link between weddings and plastic surgery?

Oh yes we are.
What a sick, sad and sorry statement about marriage, about women and about Western culture.
I’m all for a bit of fluffy reality TV but this is so many shades of wrong it’s a rainbow of wrongness.

The same ethical surgeons who turned ‘ugly ducklings into swans’ in The Swan (below) will be chopping up brides on Bridalplasty. They must be so proud of their fine work.

To those who say “what’s the big deal? It’s a free country, if it makes you feel good about yourself blah blah blah” I say this:
My problem with this kind of show is with the normalisation of cosmetic surgery. The idea that it should just be part of a bride’s preparation before the wedding. Like getting a pedicure.
The idea that brides should be ‘perfect’ and that that perfection is somehow connected with happiness or with a successful marriage.

How about a show where couples go to counselling before they get married to learn how to actually communicate with each other and navigate their relationship?

Hurrumph. What do you think? Is this the kind of show you’d like to watch? Or be on?