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Beauty and the Beast 09/02

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CaveMum · 09/02/2011 20:00

Anyone else watching?

I watched last week and found it very moving.

Can't get over this woman blowing over £500,000 on plastic surgery Shock

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rocketupbum · 09/02/2011 20:39

I agree with most above, last weeks was really interesting she was actually a very sweet girl. This women is just bonkers and has no grasp on reality. She is not really prepared to listen. Go susan!

TigerseyeMum · 09/02/2011 20:41

These two are mismatched because the woman with blonde hair feels that she herself is disfigured even though most of us would not consider her to be (or at least, before the surgery).

So she is defensive because accepting the other view would undo her image of her self.

Sarah has similar defences but the opposite way around.

TigerseyeMum · 09/02/2011 20:42

I meant Susan, d'oh.

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 09/02/2011 20:42

Shock @ Sarah thinking her being called a freak because of her plastic surgery is comparable to what Susan has experienced.

histrionic.... sounds about right.

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 20:44

It's very sad that Sarah doesn't like what she is: a 50-year-old woman.

No matter what she does, that's what she is.

It must be terrible to hate yourself so much for getting older, some people don't get that priviledge Sad.

I'm 40 later and I feel so blessed, to have come this far.

BalloonSlayer · 09/02/2011 20:46

I am not sure Susan's point came across clearly.

She was saying that she is happy with the way she looks but then she also says that Sarah has "no idea what it's like to have a disfigurement" so it presumably (obviously!) is difficult. So why can't Sarah say she wouldn't want to look like that?

And Susan wears make-up . . .

Ciske · 09/02/2011 20:47

It's interesting that Susan is more comfortable performing in public than most people are.... me included!

stainesmassif · 09/02/2011 20:48

I really hope Sarah gets something out of this. I'm not convinced though.

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 20:50

'She was saying that she is happy with the way she looks but then she also says that Sarah has "no idea what it's like to have a disfigurement" so it presumably (obviously!) is difficult. So why can't Sarah say she wouldn't want to look like that?'

Because as the counsellor pointed out, Sarah didn't appear to have any level of empathy/the EQ of a 2-year-old.

I have a very physically beautiful little girl, who is has serious learning disabilities.

And she regularly displays more empathy for others than Sarah.

That's rather worrying.

BalloonSlayer · 09/02/2011 20:50

God the things she's saying

fuck

stainesmassif · 09/02/2011 20:52

I think Susan was wound up by sarah's insistence that it's a 'fact of life' that people don't wNt to be ugly, and was trying to explain that she (Susan) is happy within herself despite the fact she has a disfigurement.

stainesmassif · 09/02/2011 20:54

Expat said it better

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 20:54

'I think Susan was wound up by sarah's insistence that it's a 'fact of life' that people don't wNt to be ugly,'

And also, Susan doesn't find herself ugly.

BalloonSlayer · 09/02/2011 20:56

Psychologist has got her spot on

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CaveMum · 09/02/2011 20:57

A tad of an overreaction there Hmm

"I feel invisible" - I think that sums her up perfectly. She needs to be noticed.

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CaveMum · 09/02/2011 20:58

Oh dear, the girl next week doesn't seem much better than Sarah.

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expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 20:59

Yep. She has a low EQ/emotional maturity.'

She never seemed to move beyond the self-centredness (wrt to being to able to put yourself in someone's else's shoes, or try to) that is classic in the adolescent brain.

Maybe she Botoxed that or all her facelifts took it off.

BalloonSlayer · 09/02/2011 21:00

Susan is wonderful. I wish I was as sensible and composed, and happy with myself.

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 21:01

'Oh dear, the girl next week doesn't seem much better than Sarah.'

The guy next week, he works as a sign language teacher and intepreter for the deaf. He's a qualified teacher who is engaged to one of his former students, who is a hearing woman and had no facial disfigurement.

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 21:01

I'll bet you moron Miss Whatever hasn't got 1/10 of what he has in his little finger between her ears.

Ciske · 09/02/2011 21:02

The guy next week looks familiar, has he been on TV before?

expatinscotland · 09/02/2011 21:03

He's been on a lot of stuff. He's a disabled rights advocate. He is hearing impaired.

mckenzie · 09/02/2011 21:05

I wonder what Adam's background is and how he came to be disfigured. He doesn't seem to be totally natural when interviewing so I'm assuming this isn't his regular trade but he's doing a bloody grand job.

Ciske · 09/02/2011 21:10

Adam has a good point about disfigured people always playing baddies or crazy people in the films/TV. It would be good to see more people with 'unusual' bodies on TV, I bet it would stop a lot of this fretting about having to look perfect.

BalloonSlayer · 09/02/2011 21:11

There was an article about Adam in The Times recently. He has an identical twin who does not have neurofibromatosis.

I can't remember what Adam does for a living but his condition does affect his health.

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