There are no ugly women -- Just fixer uppers! BS!

OK, so I got this mail claiming that 9 ugly women had a 12 hour make over and turned into the beauties on the before and after photo. This is what the mail said:

Look carefully, they're in the same order.
It's just amazing what money can do!
This photo below was taken at a competition in June 2008 involving 9 women for best makeover. They had every possible beauty treatment available to them over a period of 12 hours before the contest.
Look at the before and after photos.
Conclusion - there are no ugly women only poor women.
The woman 2nd from the left won the contest.

Yes, it's really the same women. Yes, you can easily see that there is a huge difference between the before and after photos. But... it's not a 12 hour makeover. It took 3 months of training, coaching, plastic surgery, teeth bleaching, jaw realigning and whatnot for them to get there. It was all documented and made into a TV show called The Swan. The TV show was shot in 2004, not 2008.

I know it's mailed around as a funny thing, but there is nothing fun about it. A total of 32 women went under the knife for the TV show that was ranked #1 at the top 10 Worst Reality-TV Shows Ever.

David Lyte, who produced the show and now works for Fox Reality Channel, was quoted in the Calgary Sun as saying “The Swan was a worthless piece of television, I’m sad to say I produced. Those women were left sort of looking like cheap hookers and sent back to their small towns.”
Lyte then later wrote to this column's co-author, Andy Dehnart, and said, in part "I swear I didn’t say The Swan was “a worthless piece of television”. I hope I would never be that pompous. I liked The Swan. It is true that sometimes we did turn them out to look like….err…well, lets be honest about those breast implants, hookers isn’t a million miles from the truth." Link.