A WEBSITE DEDICATED to matching beautiful people with other beautiful people has ditched 3,000 users for ‘letting themselves go’.
The dating website, creatively named BeautifulPeople.com, pride themselves on only admitting the best looking people to the website, but it seems that you’re not completely safe once you’re in. They recently ditched members who they claim ‘didn’t meet the rigorous standards’ expected of them, citing weight gain and graceless ageing as the most common reasons for the axe.
Ouch.
The website claims to remove the first hurdle for beautiful people online, so say they often review members to keep standards high. They say they’ve ‘sent a very clear message’, “you don’t need to be just beautiful but you need to stay that way”.
A model recently had plastic surgery after being rejected from the website the first time, telling the Daily Mail that she agrees with the decision to cut those with fading looks.
If the management failed to maintain the quality of the site by polluting the gene pool, most members would leave.
There have been over 7.5 million people rejected from the site since it was set up in 2003.
But all is not lost, and members cut were let down gently.
Each has received an email encouraging them to re-apply when they are back looking their best.
No Irish people made the top 10 countries culled, but Brits came in as second highest cut behind the States, with 568 facing the chop. However, it could be down to the fact that we just don’t have as many members. In 2011, stats from the website revealed that Irish men had one of the highest rejection rates on the site, and only 9 percent of applicants were accepted.
Irish women fared a bit better, with 20 percent accepted. That’s still way less than 68 percent of Swedish women, but higher than English women at 15 percent acceptance.
