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From Wikipedia:

Ananda Lewis (born March 21, 1973 in San Diego, California) is an American model and television personality. She is a mixture of Black and Native American (Cree and Blackfoot). She had her first theater audience when she was only 3, and went on to spend nine years refining her dramatics at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. At age 13 she volunteered at the Head Start agency, helping kids from poor families. After a traumatizing episode with a boyfriend, Ananda focused her energies on teaching young girls about date rape and abstinence. She attended Howard University in Washington D.C. Lewis co-hosted a morning daily radio show, Block Party" with John Salley on 100.3FM The Beat (KKBT Los Angeles). When Salley was dumped in favor of another DJ, Tom Joyner, she moved to the 9a-12p slot. She left that position in November 2006. She was host of the program Teen Summit on the BET network. Lewis then became a VJ for MTV as the host of Total Request Live. She also asserted her presence in specials like Wanna Be a VJ Too. In 2000, she was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People". In 2001, she hosted her own syndicated TV talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show. Her new show will not be her first encounter with reality television. In 2004, she appeared in Celebrity Mole: Yucatan. Lewis has long been committed to social activism and youth causes that bridge the generation gap, including race and prejudice, mental health, literacy, prevention of worldwide childhood starvation, and animal cruelty prevention.

From the December issue of L.A. Direct Magazine:

Coasting the slopes and the streets with a body that’s found many ways to defy the laws of gravity, Shaun White is a 21-yr-old skateboarding, snowboarding phenomenon and Olympic Gold Medalist. He’s the definition of a “stand-out” with his shock of copper-colored wavy locks and his unbelievable skills on boards. White’s pretty much got it made in every way that any kid could dream of. You may have seen the AMEX commercial in which White jets from country to country in pursuit of the best snowstorms in the world. It’s not too much of a stretch; he has the skills to live that life. If there’s a mountain with fresh snow, White’s there. If there were slopes to ski on the moon, he’d be on the first space shuttle.

From SFGate:

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson has confirmed she is addicted to cosmetic surgery. The 53-year-old has spent $100,000 preserving her youthful looks, but she has always denied being hooked on visits to the surgeon's office. But the former "America's Next Top Model" judge now admits it's an addiction. She says, "Believe me, I'm a 900-year-old dinosaur and without 14 inches of make-up and 32 pounds of fake weave I wouldn't look the way I do. I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. "I'm honest about it, I haven't got a problem with it. I borrow bits from everyone. Every six months I fly to Dallas to get Botox and I also get collagen injections. I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery."

Alex Kuczynski's story appears on this website about Beverly Hills plastic surgery:

THE American fascination with self-improvement, inside and out, has been documented in many variations. But the ardor for physical and aesthetic enhancement was best captured this year by "Extreme Makeover," an ABC reality program. In it, middleclass Americans - a police officer, a waitress, a local radio D. J. - were transformed by plastic surgery, sometimes several procedures at a time, from plain Janes and Johns into coiffed, glossed movie-star lookalikes. Along with the approval of BOTOX® for wrinkle reduction in 2002, the popular neurotoxin that has conquered wrinkles, the show drew attention to the increasingly popular notion that plastic surgery is not just for the vain or the wealthy. If cosmetic plastic surgery is available to the average consumer - thanks in part to lending agencies that specialize in financing cosmetic procedures - and no longer bears the stigma of vanity, the question arises: Are we on our way to becoming a nation of the surgically enhanced? If looking beautiful becomes as easy as buying a car or a dress, will beauty - or an imitation of it - become so commonplace as to be meaningless?

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