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BeautifulPeople Dating Site Boots 5,000 'Fatties'

by Terrence O'Brien on January 5, 2010 at 06:35 AM

Supremely Shallow Dating Site Boots 5,000 There is plenty of undue pressure out there (particularly on women) to be, not just attractive, but beautiful. Social network and dating site, BeautifulPeople.com takes this absurd, and rather shameful truth, and has turned it into a professed business practice. Members are only allowed to join after they've passed a screening process, in which existing users vote on whether or not they're attractive enough. But those who thought once they got through the gate they were free to let themselves go had another thing coming.

The site has reportedly booted 5,000 (yes, that's a comma and three zeros) users after they posted pictures which showed they had gained weight over the holidays. (That will teach them to have a second helping of turkey and stuffing, we suppose.) The unabashedly vain Web site can't take sole credit here however, the site's users themselves reported the now exiled members for getting soft around the middle.

Founder Robert Hintze was unapologetic about the move. He told the BBC, "letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model." Clearly there are no requirements about class to join the service. [From: BBC]

Tags: beautifulpeople, BeautifulPeople.com, dating, fatties, top, weight

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