Thanks to a classmate this show was brought to my attention. Jessica Simpson's The Price of Beauty is a show that follows her and two of her friends around the world trying to figure out what makes each woman beautiful in various cultures. Jessica and her friends tackle topics revolving around fashion, fitness, diet and ridiculous spa treatments. It's not all about fun when going to different countries to find out what their definition of beautiful. At few things that occur during some of the episodes include: drinking cow urine in India, being buried up to their necks in Tokyo, and drinking gourds of ghee in a fattening hut in Uganda.
This show is eye opening not only for Jessica, Ken Paves, and CaCee Cobb but also for its viewers because it proves that there is not one standard to beauty. The show brings up interesting extremes that women go through to be their culture's standard of beauty. For example, there was a mother in Rio who couldn't afford electricity, but was secretly saving for butt implants. The Price of Beauty is an awesome show that many women and girls can relate to because of how they've felt towards wanting to fit in to be beautiful and it shows that they're not the only ones that want that desire or that are willing to make it happen.
The down fall of this show I believe is the fact that they're going all around the world to experiment new cultural ways to be beautiful but they're only proving to the United States that there's one standard of beauty everywhere. This one standard shouldn't be a standard at all because not everyone is going to look the same in one culture. I feel that everyone should accept everyone for their idiosyncrasies and their looks.
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