VIDEO: Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn: Webisode 4: The Top Model


If you’ve been reading the blog recently (or media outlets from The Vancouver Sun to The Frisky), you know I launched a satirical book trailer and webisode series this week, Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn, which spoofs — and then liberates — reality TV’s stock characters through media literacy therapy.

Who’s the latest to check in for some Reality Rehab? Introducing Webisode 4: The Top Model. In this episode, The Top Model (Kendra Leigh Landon) explains just how seductive is when fashion and beauty advertisers build modeling shows around clear instructions about which makeup and clothes to wear in order to be beautiful, valuable, and successful. Through media literacy therapy, she learns how and why most women will never achieve advertisers’ definition of beauty–and how important it is to think for herself:


Like Reality Rehab’s Top Model? Blog her, tweet her, post her to Tumblr, share her on your Facebook wall — let’s make this Top Model go viral, so that all the girls who watch America’s Next Top Model can hear her speak.

What, you say you haven’t seen the previous webisodes? Well, then, as Veronica Arreola says, “you’re missing out on a world of funny.” Check out — and then share/tweet/blog about — the whole series:

TRAILER (and series website): Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn

Reality Rehab Webisode 1: The Desperate Bachelorette

Reality Rehab Webisode 2: The Angry Black Woman

Reality Rehab Webisode 3: The “Real” Housewife

***And stay tuned for Webisode 5: The Slutty Bitch, Webisode 6, The Douchebag Dude, and Webisode 7,  The Gangsta Guy, coming next week.


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