Do You Look Good Naked? (Miss Naked Beauty)

Member Name: greendaystar

Product:	Miss Naked Beauty
Date:	29/10/08 (425 review reads)
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Advantages: This is a feel good program which brings you back to reality

Disadvantages: Some people may find the amount of nudity offensive

This aired on Channel 4 on 28th October 2008 at 8:00pm and will continue to every week until Miss Naked Beauty is decided.
This is hosted by the one and only Gok Wan of "How to Look Good Naked", who is accompanied by Myleene Klass of Hear'say fame.

Miss Naked Beauty is the ultimate 21st century beauty contest between 12 "normal" women of all different shapes and sizes. They must undertake different tasks to stay in the game.

The show began where all 12 contestants had to be photographed intimately, framing and zooming in on their least favorite body part. For some women this was a nightmare, and one girl even had a panic attack at the sheer thought of having to get her bum out. Least favorite body parts ranged from one girl who had had a boob reduction and regretted it to another girl who hated the bottom of her back. It goes to show people can be hung up on the smallest of things which other people find gorgeous or don't even notice !!

All in all this activity proved sucessful with the girls feeling a little better about themselves after Gok in his usual way reassured the ladies and pointed out that they werent as bad as they thought.

The next part of the show featured Lisa Rogers who investigates the worrying rise in cosmetic surgery. She met up with Alicia Douvall, the serial boob job addict and well known glamour model come z-lister. She reveals her latest boob job and shows the scars which "should have healed by now" and tells of her plans to have her 15th boob job as soon as possible. UK surgeons will not see her due to the amount of scar tissue she had accumulated, but she has had a surgeon in the US agree to undertake this procedure. The blonde glamour model, who has said in the past that her 12-year-old daughter wants a boob job already, admits that she has spent over £1 million pound on trying to get the perfect pair.
Alicia has severe Body Dymorphia (this is where people think there is something wrong with their body and concentrate on this and can not stop thinking about it) and is a perfect example of someone with this condition. Lisa goes more into this condition, highlighting the reasons why more and more people are suffering due to the surgery boom and the following of celebrities.

The show continues with the girls next task which is to change the size of the British high streets. They meet up with the managers of Debenhams to try and convince them to change their Size 8-10 window models to a more realistic size 14. They are split into two teams - A & B, and sent onto the streets with a curvy Size 14 model which they have to utilise in their own way to gather evidence and points to take into their meeting with Debenhams. They speak to the public, asking opinions, whilst gathering information. They also speak to various clothes shops to ask if they will display their Size 14 model in the window temporarily to see what the public reaction will be. Team B gain the approval of a few independant shops, while Team A sucessfully and shockingly convince Miss Selfridges of Oxford Street to not only display their model but to dress in their own clothing too!!
After much research, the teams finally meet up with Debenhams to give their presentation. Team A choose to have each member of the team to have their say. Debenhams are impressed with this, although they feel a couple of members waffled a little. Team B go for the approach where they use only 3 members of the team to give the speech. Debenhams ask immediately after why they didnt all have a turn. They did not seem impressed with this team but do decide to display these models.

Upon this, the two teams are put in front of a panel of judges including: James Brown - Lads mag dude, Kathryn Fleet - Journalist, Mica Paris - An acclaimed musician, actress and broadcaster, and also a successful TV presenter. They will all decide which two members will be leaving. The girls are criticised on everything from one girl being too quiet in the presentations, one girl looking too "smug" on her intimate photo, the girl who had the panic attack gets shot down and flames for being unconfident. Team A are all told they are to stay in the game. Team B however are all told that two girls from their team will be leaving.

The two girls who were eliminated were Anna and Laura, whos interviews can be read on the Channel 4 website.

The remaining girls will be judged on new challenges next week....


I really enjoyed this show. It is very refreshing to watch as it goes against everything that the youth of today seems to follow in magazines; planning surgery before they are even old enough, starving themselves to look like Cheryl Tweedy and the like. This isnt just a feel good program, it is there to bring you smashing back down to reality.
Also, what I like about this program strangely enough is the way in which there is so much nudity but because of the nature of the program and the way it is handled, it isnt embarrassing, degrading or seedy.

This is about normal people living in the real world and I will be watching this again.

Summary: A must see !