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Alternate Reality
The stars of The Swan, The Simple Life, Survivor, and American Idol prove that tiny changes can produce a big reveal. By Danielle Pergament
if we've learned anything from all the time we've clocked in front of the television, it's that the word "reality" is pretty flexible. Contestants are lacquered with hair spray, doused with makeup, or on Survivor, hidden under weeks' worth of grime and sweat to the point where we have no idea what they really look like, let alone how they look at their best. For the television stars on these pages, the pros aimed for their own interpretations of reality -- the cleaned-up, idealized versions. That meant applying smoky eye shadow on a ...