BeautifulPeople.com is a dating site which has a strict ban on ugly people, and definitely proved that they aren’t lying about that. They set some of their users back to the ‘rating stage’ (the same as having to apply for your account again). All of these users were people who had updated their profile pictures on the site to reveal that they had gotten fatter over the holidays. Existing and ‘still beautiful’ members then reviewed whether or not the re-applying users were beautiful or not. Over 5000 users, mainly from the US, Canada and Britain, were removed from the website. There are still 550,000 users, who all must have got quite a shock from the decision to remove chubby users.
To join the site, you must first be deemed ‘beautiful’ from your photo and profile. Members of the opposite sex vote “Yes definitely”, “Hmm yes, OK”, “Hmm no, not really” and “NO Definitely NOT” to decide who is allowed into the site.
Greg Hodge, managing director, blamed the USA for being grossly over-indulgent since thanksgiving and said that in Canada and the UK, Christmas and the New Year are all about over-eating, over-drinking and watching TV on the sofa. The founder of the site, Robert Hintze, told the guardian that “As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld”
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.” Details of gyms and fitness centers have been sent to ugly members. This probably isn’t a lawsuit level story, but could be offensive. By the way, did anyone else notice how fat the figure from beautifulpeople.com’s homepage is (below)? How unfair that HE hasn’t been kicked off!
