Extreme Makeover
2002
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 58 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Extreme Makeover is a television program from ABC in which individuals volunteered to receive an extensive makeover in Hollywood. The show was created by television producer Howard Schultz. It first aired as a television special. It began airing in 2002 on Thursday nights at 8pm. A total of 55 episodes were produced. The show's first surgeon was Dr. Garth Fisher of Beverly Hills, California; after the pilot show the first six shows included Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Jon A. Perlman, M.D. FACS, Dr. Malcolm Lesavoy and Dr. Harvey Zarem as part of the original "Extreme Team," along with Dr. Bill Dorfman and Dr. Robert Maloney. Other doctors were selected for the next three years in addition to the above.
Borrowing heavily from the reality television genre, the show depicts ordinary men and women undergoing "extreme makeovers" involving plastic surgery, exercise regimens, hairdressing and wardrobing. Each episode ends with the participants' return to their families and friends, showing the reactions of their loved ones, who have not been allowed to see the incremental changes during the participants' absence.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which debuted in 2003, is a spin-off of Extreme Makeover. The home edition ended up becoming far more successful than the plastic surgery edition. Extreme Makeover: Wedding Edition was also piloted as a one-time special, but did not achieve sufficient ratings to be made into a series.
Seasons
Season 1
Kine, a 29 year-old barber from Chicago, had an upper and lower lip reduction, breast lift, liposuction of the abdomen, teeth whitened and straightened, and Lasik eye surgery.
Tammy, a 40-year-old stay-at-home mother from St. Petersburg, FL, had a face lift, an upper and lower eye lift, rhinoplasty, laser resurfacing of the perioral region, and teeth whitened and straightened
Season 2
Caroline and Catherine are 32-year-old, mirror image twins who have grown apart, physically and emotionally, throughout the years and wanted extreme makeovers to bring them back together. Caroline, a dog groomer and mother from Carson City, Nevada, had rhinoplasty, a chin implant, lower eye lift, tummy tuck, breast implants, liposuction on the thighs and extensive dental work, including 12 upper porcelain veneers, aesthetic lip surgery, gum recontouring and two root canals. Her identical twin sister, Catherine, a hair stylist and mother from San Jose, California, had a tummy tuck, breast augmentation and dental work, including 8 upper veneers, teeth whitening, gum recontouring and orthodontics on the lower teeth.
Dan, a 40-year-old radio producer and father from Seattle, Washington, wanted an extreme makeover to improve his self-esteem and catch the eye of a co-worker he's had a crush on. He had chin and jowl implants, buckle pads excision, liposuction on the cheeks, liposuction on the
Season 3
Becky and Stacy are sisters who were born with the birth defect of a cleft palate. After nearly 40 surgeries to correct the deformity, the sisters basically gave up and accepted that they would forever look the way they did; that is, until they placed their dreams to be normal in the skilled hands of the doctors of last resort: the Extreme Makeover team.
Stacy, a 29-year-old homemaker and mother from Palo Cedro, CA, had rhinoplasty, liposuction under neck, inner and outer thighs, upper eyelid lift, breast augmentation and lift, scar revision on right hip, lip reconstruction, chemical peel and dental work, including four da Vinci porcelain veneers, Galaxy partial dentures and Zoom whitening.
Becky, a 34-year-old office worker and mother of two from Shasta, CA had lip reconstruction, rhinoplasty, radiated cartilage graft, upper and lower eyelid lift, endo brow lift, breast augmentation (doughnut breast lift), liposuction of outer, inner, anterior thighs and under neck, tummy tuck, cheek
Season 4
Network
ABC