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(CNN) — A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a “strict ban on ugly people” has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.
The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members after they posted photos “revealing that they have let themselves go,” according to a company statement.
“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld,” said Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”
Har!
Give me a break
Whats next in this politically correct world
Remember everyone is someone’s sister so to speak
Whoever’s left in that group, they deserve each other.
Have you seen a picture of “Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com.”? Google him…
HA HA HA he should ban himself!
We demand to see a explicit photo of the founder so we can decide for ourselves!
Nice haircut?
Pretty obvious it’s a publicity stunt. Instead of investigating the largest financial fraud ever perpetrated on a people (Federal Reserve, Goldman, etc…), CNN is running marketing pieces for vanity dating sites. Nice.
I have no problem with this. It’s only fitting that you get judged by your own shallow standards.
Re: #4, Joe, that’s the whole point. That site is all about women prostituting themselves. It’s the ‘John’s’ money that is handsome to these women. I would guess that most of the rich men using that ‘service’ are homely.
Sorry… my post #6 to Joe should have been directed to Bill, #3. Typo (cough).
Clear publicity stunt (fairly clever I must say)
How would they know that the members gained weight? This story needs the fishy monitor graphic on it.
I suggest all DU readers join beautifulpeople.com, upload a picture of Robert Hintze (or John C Dvorak) as your profile picture and see if it gets accepted.
How much weight did these people put on over christmas?
is that even possible? (I know lots of women who would swear that yes, a whole pound of weight is added when they eat one chocolate biscuit, but come on…)
No different than any other dating sites, including the Christain eHarmony advertised here
I don’t know why any of you would be offended at this. There are very specific dating sites in regards to race, religion, color, size, sexual orientation and then some, and sometimes even the freakish and kinky-ish things.
Freedom, love it or get the hell out of US. That’s our motto isn’t it?
#12, what about the freedom to be shackled?
#8
“Clear publicity stunt (fairly clever I must say)”
I would bet that way too.
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model..”
Too funny!
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model..”
Yeah, they’d eat up all the bandwidth.
People from Kentucky get special screening.
I need a dating site specifically for schlubs willing to settle.
The US government should have a “stupid” threshold and that way the country would be rid of all the Republicans.
TheOne,
I think most of us are mocking their shallowness rather than being offended.
I, myself, wonder if they revoke the memberships of people who are TOO skinny?
To me, women who are a little overweight are way more beautiful than these skin-and-bones anorexic types so popular now.
For example, these days Marilyn Monroe would be considered fat but she is still way hot in my book.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
That web site is for egotisticle bozos.