As regular readers of this column know, I love to point out how the media portrays an image of women that most real women can never achieve, try as they might.
In recent years, this trend reached ridiculous heights, with the avalanche of "makeover" and plastic surgery shows, in which women went under the knife to become as slender and youthful looking as possible.
I almost tossed my cookies watching a few minutes of Fox's "The Swan," a show in which so-called "ugly ducklings" went on starvation diets and sustained several painful surgeries, so they could compete with one another to become "The Ultimate Swan."
But now, ABC executives are pulling muscles patting themselves on the back as their new hit show "Ugly Betty" actually is making an effort to raise the self esteem of young women all over the country.
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