Not-so-super-model.

For the first time, I've been watching  "The Celebrity Apprentice", and for one single reason.  No, it's not because I feel like torturing myself on Sunday nights (I really do hate the show!).  It's for Academy Award winning Deaf actress, Marlee Matlin, who is on the show this season, and in my opinion is its only redeeming value.

Amongst the drama filled, gossip loving, hissing women's team is Hope Dworaczyk, one of Playboy's Playmate of the Year winners (did I mention Marlee is the only redeeming value of The Apprentice??).  I'd love to list for you Hope's other known qualities, like notable volunteer work, scientific breakthroughs, or any other great talent of hers that involved her clothes on, but alas... she's famous for solely one thing.

During last night's Apprentice the teams were given the task of setting up and decorating a huge glass box advertising tanning lotion for Australian Gold.  Of course, great opportunity to exploit some skin.  The guys' team did just that, with plenty of scantily clad pirate models.  The girls' team however shocked me.  The team project manager decided that instead of having Hope be a tanned sex icon for the display, she would instead take care of some other needs for the ad and then, fully clothed, toss around a volleyball in the sand around the display.  I have no idea what the project managers reasons were for this, but boy was I thrilled!  Not only could I stand to miss seeing a bikini clad Hope, but I was impressed that she was shown being able to work in other areas and be more than for a one-track use.

My feelings of thrill were sadly diminished when the teams sat before Mr. Trump in the board room.  He, Australian Gold executives, and others in the room shared there dismay that Hope wasn't used in other more "obvious" ways for the ad.  I wish I could communicate my disgust.  The wordage was quite carefully picked by saying things like:

"We wish Hope had been more front and center." ~Australian Gold executives (she was LITERALLY standing at the front and in the center of the display).

"You're the playmate of the year... you would think that for sun tanning and all of the things Australian gold stands for, she (the project manager) would have used you, and yet you were not used in that fashion." ~Trump to Hope (I'm glad to be clear on what things Australian Gold stands for).

"Why did you not use Hope? She just became playmate of the year??"  Trump questioning the project manager.

"Those girls (the models the guys had) couldn't hold a candle to Hope. We would have got a crowd" " ~Star Jones

"It was cold, and I was still willing to do it. I only needed to be a model one day." ~Hope

"You could have just said, 'Hope, guess what enjoy the bathing suit." ~Trump to the project manager.

Sigh.  And so the project manager was made to be the bad guy, Hope the victim, and everyone else the wonderful geniuses who would have stripped down Hope for the sales.

Hope, I'm sure is truly a sad, torn, desperate person.  Goodness knows what happened to the little girl in her that decided she wanted to become a professional slut when she grew up.  Seriously, I truly do feel heartbroken thinking of her.  She has and still is being sold the lie that she is only worth her body and can not be good enough without showing it.  That is precisely the message The Apprentice and most modern media tells us.

Hope, though actively involved in the whole project was viewed as "not used" because clearly, they only view her as useful for one single thing.  Hope was viewed as not being the model that day, even though she is a model and was there, in the main part of the display.  But for the SINGLE reason that she was not showing her body, she was not viewed as a model or a use.

A sick, distorted definition of beauty was given.... to Hope... to men.... to women....  to all of us.  Hope has clearly accepted this definition.  And I'm sure that inside, she knows that according to that definition, she will expire.  Once her beauty fades and the younger version isn't her, she will no longer be viewed as a use to us.  I truly believe that thought haunts Hope and other models constantly.

We chew them up and spit them out.  We serve ourselves slavery on a silver platter.  We continue to push sex in nearly every ad and commercial, joke, movie, book, etc.  It's all about sex and sexy women, with no limits.  As Dr. Phil says, how's that working for us?

Sin sure is fun for a bit, but boy is the path dark and the end destructive.  No wonder we have so many porn and sex addicted men, divorced marriages, cheating spouses, used-to-be-models in rehab, and drug addicted Hollywood women. 

I'm so glad God gives a better definition of beauty and brighter path to follow.  For more thoughts on this, please read my series "The Distortion of Beauty" Parts 1-3.  And please remember to be careful and discerning of what messages the media is sending you.