14 DAY TRIAL // Heidi Montag may have chosen to be done with the world of reality television, at least until she gets over the breakup from husband Spencer Pratt, but the world of reality television is not yet done with her. MTV has announced that it will premiere a new documentary meant to highlight the transformations the star has suffered these past couple of years, the Mirror informs.
Lisa Stokoe, executive producer at MTV Networks UK & Ireland, says that the documentary will be part of a larger initiative meant to highlight for younger audiences the many ways in which media images are modified and manipulated to present something that, in the end, completely loses touch with reality. In fact, on the official MTV website, users can now use a feature called “Heidi Yourself,” which allows them to see what they’d look like if they were to get plastic surgery.
“The Hills may be finished – but we won’t be getting over Heidi’s botched plastic surgery in a hurry. For MTV is screening a documentary called Heidi’s Face on Sunday August 22 at 9pm. It is about her transformation following a series of 10 plastic surgery procedures – in just one day. We’ve got our Sky Plus boxes at the ready,” the Mirror says. It is believed that Heidi has received pay to agree to the documentary – which would make sense, since MTV also produced the reality show she was previously on, “The Hills.”
The inclusion of the “Heidi’s Face” documentary in the initiative has been done with the purpose of showing the kind of pressure celebrities are under, as well as how far they’d go to achieve the so-called Barbie face. Heidi, for one, is the best example in this sense: as we also reported in April this year, when confronted by her mother, who told her she wished she hadn’t gotten so much work done because she looked like a living Barbie doll, Heidi simply couldn’t understand what was wrong with wanting to be and looking like Barbie.
“It sounds to me like you want to look like Barbie,” her mother told her at the time, when Heidi tried to explain why she wanted to have the makeover. “I do want to look like Barbie,” came Heidi’s reply. “Why would you want to look like Barbie? To everybody else that saw you, you were Heidi. Nobody in the world could have looked like Heidi Montag,” the mother fought back, bringing a still expressionless Heidi to tears.
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