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On the Price of Beauty VH1 TV show, Jessica Simpson and her friends travel to a remote tribe in Uganda. As they do each week, they investigate the definition of beauty as defined by a particular culture and the cost of obtaining it. The theme of the show-beautiful is unique to each and every culture. There is no universal definition of beauty.This episode was an interesting juxtopostion from her trip to France. In Paris, Jessica interviewed a woman struggling with anorexia and women in the fashion industry who feel pressure to be ultra thin. In Uganda, women face the polar opposite issue. Jessica landed in a world where, "fat is beautiful." Jessica (and many of us) have never been in a place where the perception of beauty does not include thinness.
over 15 years ago