I thought it was pretty bad after a British woman claimed she was "too pretty" to work, but 21-year-old Chicago woman Dana Adiva and 19-year-old Massachusetts native Brooke (no last name) take the cake. The women appeared on MTV's True Life: I'm Too Beautiful claiming that their good looks have made their life a living hell.
Dana says it has caused her to drop out of school for being bullied, anxiety attacks, and sibling rivalry. Brooke, on the other hand, has unwanted male attention that's caused tension in her relationship. However Dana is okay with getting by on her looks and says: "I don't have to be smart because I have my looks. Which is true" and "I don't think my looks will ever leave me." Ugh, is this some kind of joke?
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Dana dropped out of school after being bullied and turned to pro wrestling, but admits that there are perks to being pretty. "I get anything I want, basically," she says. "I get treated like a princess." Excuse me while I vomit.
Dana's bigger issue is that her little sister Nicole gets jealous of her since she overshadows her all the time. In the show, Nicole tells her the world doesn't revolve around her, to which Dana modestly responds: "The world does revolve around me. You're just living in it." Sigh … But I thought Dana was full of herself until I met 19-year-old Brooke.
Brooke's excess male attention is causing problems with her boyfriend Nolan. She has the nerve to call him a "six" on a scale from one through 10, while she says she's a "10." Problems arise when she starts a new job at a nightclub and Nolan is uncomfortable with the idea of her being around random men all night. Brooke discusses how she would break up with him if he continued to be controlling.
In the end, Dana sees a therapist who tries to help her improve her relationship with her sister and Brooke decides that she wants to be more independent and enrolls in a community college. At least there is a silver lining in all this mess!
It still shocks me that there are women out there who blame their looks for not having an independent and fulfilling life. If there was one thing that gave these young women unwanted attention, it's the fact that they wore too much makeup and the way they dressed. Insecurity is clearly the root of this self absorption and it's sad that they think that they need their looks to get by. Hopefully one day they can learn that women can have BOTH beauty and brains without being this vapid.
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