*SUBSCRIBE to the Back Row newsletter for more coverage like this: https://www.backrow.net/subscribe. Go Premium and save three months on an annual subscription.*\n\nReferenced in this episode:
\nFacelift confessions, part 1: https://www.backrow.net/p/facelift-confessions-part-1-the-brutal-realities-of-getting-work-done
\nFacelift confessions, part 2: https://www.backrow.net/p/facelift-confessions-part-2-expect-an-emotional-toll\n\nIn 2004, Fox turned plastic surgery into primetime entertainment. The Swan reality show gave contestants about $200,000 worth of surgery each, put them on crash diets, banned mirrors for three months, and then put them in a beauty pageant. Nine million people watched. Erin Lee Carr, director of 'Mommy Dead and Dearest' and 'Britney vs Spears,' goes back to the women 20 years later in her hit Hulu documentary, The Swan: Behind the Mirror — and tells Amy what the documentary couldn't.\n\nCHAPTERS
\n00:00 Introduction
\n04:45 Getting the Swans to talk again
\n10:00 \"I almost died for reality television\"
\n19:30 How much choice did they have? \"1%\"
\n22:45 Starvation diets and spoonfuls of peanut butter
\n26:00 The nude photos Dr. Haworth kept
\n28:50 The $5 million contract
\n36:50 \"Would you do it again?\"
\n40:00 A classic Anna Wintour story\n
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