What's wrong with these people? can't they see these women look like someone from a news report of a famine.

Seriously? I thought we were evolving as a society and then MTV has to go and blow all my hopes. Not that it's the first time… But with an audience that is so susceptible to being influenced by these types of shows, you would think they'd be a bit more socially responsible. What can we do to stop networks from being able to perpetuate the thin=pretty stereotype?

Pardon my ignorance, but is that first photo real? Not photoshopped? Bless her heart, who is that emaciated model???

from what I understand, anyone applying for this show must be 17-24, and that sounds like an age group which is plenty capable of making wise choices for themselves and since (female) tweens generally look up to this particular age group, it maybe beneficial, if the producers choose the right contestants. plus when hasn't mtv targeted tweens? the 80's. that is well and good but ranting doesn't change a persons mind unless they are weak, so your 'article' is sorta twisted to me in that sense. your expert opinion leaves much to be desired anyway, as all bodies are DIFFERENT who is to say a woman is wrong for spending a summers length to drop more than 25 lbs, I did, and a was all the better for it, and I worked hard for my hard body, lol. I do hope that the young women who are applying to that show/ casting call do not hope or aspire to look like either of those feeble looking chicks, and that they do keep in mind that ideal weight should be a healthy weight they can maintain.

Almost all reality shows are junk. They show the worst of human impulses…greed, backstabbing self-serving behavior, shallowness and egocentrism, people dying for their 5 minutes of fame…they're horrid. At least with a fictional show that presents bad values, I can tell my kids "Well, it's fake and real people don't do that." With this tripe, I can't say anything at all. The worst trend in TV history, I think.

This is the kind of thing that caused me to give up television entirely 6 years ago.Never has a medium had so much potential and lack so badly in taste.

Kelly Collins

Hey, i am 100 percent against reality tv
and regardless of whatever the monetary compensation is to the super sweet b*tchs' are raking in, I always thought they needed a swift kick in the butt.

Maybe they wont learn anything, and just become more recognizable nobodies, but there is potential those drama teen queens will learn one moral, and thats that mommy and daddy's money may not last forever.

watch the news once in a while people, they're is a "boring" HISTORICAL election going on, and you dont need a degree, or to be an heiress to understand the world, you need to turn off the TV

first this looks just sick. second we all know "reality" tv shows arent reality. They are taped edited and put together. Third i agree with tom reality tv is the worst trend ever in world television

I'm disgusted with the so-called "reality shows". The women that are seen on these shows, in magazines, and as models are emaciated looking. That is NOT reality. No wonder so many of our young women today are suffering from bulimia or aneorexia nervosa. Voluptuous women, with some meat on their bones, are so much more attractive. They are more normal American women, and it's disgusting to have to view these so-called figures as "women". Rather, they would qualify for the figures we were accustomed to seeing in famine-stricken locales.

I apologize for my own hippocratic statement of watching the news, and turning off the TV, unless of course your reading a news paper. haha

Back when the Survivor series first aired, I had a friend tell me about it.
After he finished relating the premise and rules for the show, I asked him "If you and I, and maybe several other people found ourselves stranded in a remote location where we may not find help for and extended period of time, what is the human thing to do?
He sat silently for a moment, and then he said the drama was what made the show exciting, the human interaction issues.
I then asked him "So… What your saying is that you enjoy watching people engage in pathological behavior?"
When he said ya, I found myself questioning just how had our society, our collective civilization come to this point where it is profitable to watch other people be vindictive, or uncooperative, or greedy, or upset, or even in pain? What has happened to human kind to actively engage in activites that promote this, even entice it?
Of course, now there are more shows that operate in a similar fashion.
I haven't watched television in 9 years. My life seems rather simple compared to others. Wonder if there is a correlation…

I don't know about MTV or the gay clothing designers,but I'm 5'5" 124lb size 6, I find myself thin,happy and healthy and no gay little boys loving guy can change that,I'm not loosing weight for nobody,I love myself the way I am and the regular guys out there obviously do too. Now too skinny is not healthy,but overweight isn't either and this country has more overweight people than any other country and McDonalds should be forbidden to everybody,because that is not food,that is a time bomb.I like Victorias Secret models, they're not too skinny, they're womanly beautiful. Everybody has a choice, don't let your kids watch shows like this and you don't have to worry.

I think that it is really sad, that Television corporations can not come up with anything new now a days , so they throw all this reality t.v. at us. I think that most of my brain cells might be gone because of all this crap that is on t.v.
I think that the worst reality t.v. that I have seen are all the shows the VH1 has, such at I love New York, Flavor of Love, and Rock of Love. Come on people give it up already, you are washed up no-body's, and no one cares anymore, about who is willing to do the stupidest things, to get you to love them. They all need to find people who are possibly not insane, drunks, or on drugs. I pity the people who watch all this stuff, because one day you will need a brain cell, and will not have it because you fried them all watching reality t.v.

I personally have never been a fan of reality TV to begin with, but it's my opinion that it is sad that our liberal media outlets have degenerated to this and broadcast shows that say you have to be dangerously skinny in order to be beautiful, that materialism, vanity, lust, and greed are OK, and pretty much polluting the minds of American youth with this garbage.

But what is good is that we live in a country where the press has the freedom to broadcast shows like this, and we as Americans have the freedom to choose whether or not we want to watch it.

People, and especially parents need to practice personal responsibility and not let their kids watch these shows if they are concerned.

And the people who do watch reality TV shows like this and are TOO stupid to know that it is NOT reality, let them. I don't associate with people like that anyways.

omg the girl in the pink look like she's about to collapse from being so thin. I heard about wanting to be thin but that's crossing the line way too far.

I hate how society is about everyone looking the same. If you're too big, too small, too tall or short or dark skinned or whatever, you're not good enough. I like reality shows that support you as yourself and try to get you to feel better about YOU, not to transform you into someone you want to be to love your so-called-self. That's why so many girls, including me, are so insecure. Not just TV but the world in general. School, advertisements, celebrities (oh I'm sorry, "role models"), TV, sometimes music but not generally.

Some shows are just dumb and I'm surprised people even get inspired by them.

This is very sad.. But there's not much that can be done. T.v. people don't care about what the girls go through, or if they get hurt or not. All we can do as parent's is encourage our daugthers how beautiful they are without being stick thin and having 3 gallons of makeup on. We can't change what's on t.v. and thin models are everywhere, but we can change how girls think of themselves. Thats the most important part. When did having a nice butt go out of style? I thought guys liked that kind of stuff.

Reality shows shouldn't even be called reality because half of them aren't realistic at all.

American Idol is one of the only acceptable reality shows. That show should never be taken away.

Most of the time I laugh when someone criticizes a TV show for being a bad influence, but in this case? All I can say is "wow". This show looks absolutely deplorable, the girl on the top of the page looks like someone out of a third world country, not a hot woman. That look should NOT be glorified. I can't even believe someone out there thinks an emaciated woman like that looks appealing…

Nor can I believe this show got the go and will actually be airing. Here's hoping someone forms a protest and this crap gets pulled before it ever airs!

I think this show indicates what our world is comming too these days. Shows like this one should never exsist. The summer olympics are broadcast now- why would anybody waste their time judging the "models" based on their weight and their talent rather than see healthy atheletes achieve a once in a life time opprotunity to win the best victory of all. A gold medal from the olympics!!! Also, people are never going to be satisfied with somebody else's weight.. its become a sterotype.. either someone is to thin, fat, to short , to tall, not tan enough, to tan the list can go on. We have to be happy with ourselves and surround ourselves with people who will love and care about who we are in the inside. The energy that someone uses to make themselves physicaly more attractive for the sake of the media or "whats in" should spend their time focusing on what can make them a better person in the inside; as well as how they can encourage other people to love who they are as a person.

while I hate most reality shows, I have to say that I am a big fan of "the biggest loser". I agree that most people don't have the ability to go away for weeks at a time to start an intensive lifestyle changing program but I believe the show does a good job of focusing on being healthy through both exercise and a good diet. Reality tv sucks but this is one that I think is worth watching because it has inspired many people who are overweight and unhealthy to get fit and change their lifestyles.

Wow finally someone who SPEAKS UP about the crap we get served up everyday. Shows like these help to make already kids who are growing up in the entitlement state of mind, think this is how the real world is……IT SHOULDNT BE!!! Who is going to stand up for those whoes parents don't actively play a part in their kids lives teaching them morals and basic good vs bad choices and the consequences they both have… I wish more people who are in Hollywood and writers would stop encouraging young people..OMG now i sound like an old person.

Janice Dickinson and her modeling contestant show bother me. To me, she is exactly the kind of model that needs not to be working! She is harsh, mean, conceited, spoiled, and just doesn't get it. Tyra is the one who gets it. She's very right to want to change the face and body of modeling. I find absolutely no beauty in the toothpick thin models. I think it is criminal of Dickinson and the skinny model lovers to require their models to starve themselves half to death. I guess Janice likes them brain-dead too, so they won't have the gray matter to think about defying her wishes. Getting that thin makes the body attack its own muscle tissue for the nourishment that it is denying itself!! It also destroys brain cells to get that skinny. I guess Janice is in such need to be in total control that she wants her models to be brain-damaged and half dead. I see nothing good whatsoever in this.
Why don't you crack your whip, Janice, and order your models to die before you, because you are flirting with that already as it is
This is nothing more or less than pure evil, avarice, and extreme selfishness. She needs to have a near fatal accident, struggle back to herself, learn about humility, have several reconstructive plastic surgeries on her face, and learn to be a real person.
Because I consider her an empty, plastic, ugly person the way she is now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another reason I hate reality tv shows.

How do poeple think that these woman are hot or attractive.. there bones are sticking out and its like having sex with a skeleton! Come on lets be real here not many guys are going to want to sleep with someone like that let alone be attractited to one. They look sick… why is it that clothing makers want to put cloths on someone that is that thin.. you would think they would want peoeple to buy their clothing and be able to wear is like a normal person…with clothing made for people this thin not many will be able to even pull it over their heads! This is so nasty!

American Idol sucks, Chakezee sucked, So You Think You Can Dance sucked, all of the reality shows suck.

The only show that doesn't belong in this category is "Baby Borrowers." I think it is a very good idea for young people who believe they are ready for parenthood to get a real dose of how things can be. It is a positive life lesson.

I agree that the rest listed are not worth my time.

Is it now considered fashionable to look like someone who died of famine? I wait in eager anticipation for the day a model drops dead on the catwalk. I agree with Karin about Baby Borrowers. Also, Exiled sounds amusing.