the swan effect.

Byline: Kara Jesella

nnie,* fourteen, from Washington, D.C., is

a connoisseur of plastic surgery reality shows. She watches MTV's I Want a Famous Face regularly, and has seen the network's True Life about cosmetic surgery ten times. She thinks Extreme Makeover is kind of sick and sad, but is most appalled by

The Swan. It's so awful, she says, referring

to the final episode's infamous beauty

pageant, in which the woman who has most

obediently acquiesced to her doctors' multisurgery makeover plan wins out over her fellow Swannabes in the race for the crown. The rest

of the women walk away losers. It's like

after all of those plastic surgeries, you're still

not pretty enough, Annie laments.

But …