14 DAY TRIAL // E!’s newest reality show is called Botched and has now reached its second season. It features Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif, who also appeared on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, seeing patients with botched plastic surgery and helping them get the face and the body they wanted all along.
On this week’s episode, they met 52-year-old bodybuilder Lauren Powers, also known in showbiz as the Muscle Goddess. She wanted extra work so she could feel more feminine and maybe even find love again.
Muscle Goddess wants to “soften things up”
As you can see in the two videos below, excerpts from the show, the good doctors had their hands full with Lauren. What you can’t see in the clips is how impressed they were with her size and muscles, with Dr. Nassif even joking that she was probably stronger than the two of them combined.
Once the first meeting was out of the way, they got down to business: Lauren had told them she was “hoping to soften things up” in order “to attract a man,” and Dr. Dubrow looked at her breasts for improvement, while Dr. Nassif at her face.
The 52-year-old bodybuilder had admitted that she never felt comfortable with the implants she got when she was only 18, or the work she had done later. Her breasts were now out of shape and scarred, but Dr. Dubrow knew just the things he had to do to make them look better and thus boost Lauren’s self-esteem.
Dr. Nassif, on the other hand, pointed to bone growths on Lauren’s face, which he linked to her taking human growth hormone.
An unexpected complication occurred when Dr. Dubrow realized that Lauren was still on steroids.
In the end, things worked out for the best with the bodybuilder, and she said she was very happy with the results.
Life-changing cases, glorified freak show for viewers
Botched is like many other plastic surgery shows that focused on makeovers, makeunders or even complete transformations into celebrity idols. It’s popular enough to get a second season, and in many cases, it also manages to make a difference in the patients’ lives, some of whom see in these 2 doctors their last hope of leading a decent life.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s more or less like a glorified freak show, especially through the inclusion of a couple of so-called Human Ken Dolls and real-life Barbie Dolls: i.e. people who make a living out of looking as plastic as possible, and who jump at the chance of having more work done at the expense of someone else, the network this time.
People like Janice Dickinson, Lacey Wildd or Justin Jedlica.
