I won't deny that looks in television, especially in soaps are a huge focus. Let's face it, most soap producers and executives don't care about the actors. There is a bottom line, a business, an assembly line of television to produce and they feel they don't have time to hold people's hands so they're brutal instead. Women with small breasts all of the sudden get bigger ones, women who are a healthy size eight all of the sudden shrink down to a size two. Men who don't have six pack abs and gorgeous chests never have love scenes, men who don't have hair, have graying hair, or are shorter than their leading lady better have seniority on their side or lifts and Rogaine. Meanwhile teenagers who don't look good in the newest fashions are recast. Frankly, I've always been confused by the breast augmentation in the soap industry. The same producers and executives who say that soaps are for bored housewives think an actress having fake breasts will draw them in? I mean they don't seem to believe men watch, so putting fake women in tight bikinis I would think serve them no purpose. Nevertheless, the actors who are front and center and under thirty-five are constantly pressured to look well, "better than normal". It doesn't matter if their character is too poor to afford the latest clothes, they'll still be wearing them. It doesn't matter if a good girl is supposed to be mousy and sweet, she will still be dressed like a tart with her breasts plunging out of her clothes. What does seem to matter is this ridiculous standard of what beautiful is and how normal automatically doesn't fit the bill.
