Dating site BeautifulPeople.com expels 5,000 people for gaining weight over the holidays
Daily News Staff
Monday, January 4th 2010, 11:25 AM

It’s not easy staying slim and beautiful over the holidays.

About 5,000 members of a popular dating site found that out the hard way, when they were booted from BeautifulPeople.com - the site is a dating and networking site for attractive individuals that has a "ban on ugly people" - for putting on a few pounds over the holidays.

"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. Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded," Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com, said in a statement.

So how did these "fatties" get flagged? Other members, angry that the now-plumper members were still on the site, demanded action from the company.

"We responded to complaints by moving the newly chubby members back to the rating stage. This is the same as having them re-apply," Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople.com, said in a statement.

The company sent an email telling the members that they would need to reapply when they had lost the holiday chunk.

"Their re-applications were reviewed by existing members and only a few hundred were voted back in. Over 5,000 were rejected," Hodge added.

The United States had the most members who got the boot (1,520), followed by the U.K. (832) and Canada (533).

"The USA has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving - it's no wonder that so many members have been expelled from the network. We hope they will be back after shedding the festive pounds," Hodge said.

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The United States had the most members who got the boot (1,520), followed by the U.K. (832) and Canada (533).

"The USA has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving - it's no wonder that so many members have been expelled from the network. We hope they will be back after shedding the festive pounds," Hodge said.

That's what they asses get. I can't believe a site like this would have that many "beautiful" members anyway.

CarrieMpls said:

You can laugh because you're svelte now!

It's hard to feel sorry for anyone shallow enough to join a site that's only for "beautiful people."

It's hard to feel sorry for anyone shallow enough to join a site that's only for "beautiful people."

SCNDLS said:

right?

Efan said:

Hard? Try impossible

SCNDLS said:

i joined it thinking they would reject me

they didn't.

so now i'm like what do i do?
i rejected them
i don't even log on.
[Edited 1/4/10 13:38pm]

Beautiful people dot com


Oh my gahhhhh


I actually love it. !!!



Can they be banned for getting too old? Or a bad hairdo?

I gotta check this shit out.

TheVoid said:

I almost joined cause of my morbid curiousity (cause I need to see who these people are!) but surely I wouldn't pass the initiation.

I can't believe the weight gained from the holiday season would be that visible in pictures.

I can't believe the weight gained from the holiday season would be that visible in pictures.

hello fatties!