This is a rant journal, just as a warning...

Okay, so I flipped to the TV channel earlier today that lists all of the channels and what is playing. As it does this, the top half of the screen is taken up by some type of program or show.

The show that was going when I flipped to it was a show called Look-A-Like. I watched this show all of the way through the episode, both appalled and enthralled by it. The whole point of the show is to take the contestant and make them look like somebody else, somebody famous.

Now, I don't want any Twilight rant comments, but this was their youngest contestant yet (or so I gathered from the way they talked about her). She was thirteen years old and wanted to look just like nineteen-year-old Kirsten Steward. And so, that was exactly what they did. They changed her hair, gave her a make-over, and gave her a whole new wardrobe for the photo-shoot that they do afterwards.

Tell me, what is wrong with this picture?

Why the crap would anybody want to look like somebody else? I understand that they're famous and pretty/handsome (I'm assuming they do it to guys too). But still... I much rather look like myself, zits, glasses, and all, thank you very much. If everybody looked the same, there would be no individuality.

The whole concept of the show bothers me. I understand dressing up every now and then, like for a con or for Halloween, but why would you want to look exactly like a celebrity for your appearance throughout life?

Be yourself.

Not somebody else.