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1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 min. 11 sec.) ; 261046773 bytes |
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Michael Boateng is a 21-year-old student at Liverpool University, studying Psychology and English Literature. Michael has a facial disfigurement as the result of an accident when he was eight months old. He was sleeping on his mother's bed and rolled off, becoming trapped against hot water pipes and sustaining severe burns to his head. The burns resulted in him eventually losing an ear and undergoing four skin graft operations and the need for a prosthetic ear.When Michael was about 11 years old he says he became very angry with the world and his grades started to drop off, so his Mum decided to put him in touch with the charity Changing Faces. Michael speaks very highly of Changing Faces - he feels it did him a great deal of good to meet other people with facial disfigurements. He is now on the Young Person's Council for the charity and acts as an ambassador.Laura Summers is a 25-year-old model, occasional TV personality and PR girl from Manchester. Laura regularly spends 2000 pounds a month on personal trainers and cosmetic treatments, such as fake nails and eyelashes, spray tans, sunbeds, real hair extensions, teeth whitening, laser hair removal, tanning injections, facials and body scrubs to name just a few. She says she'd rather get in to debt than let herself go; she has gone without food in the past, in order to be able to afford treatments. The most she's ever spent in a single month was 6000 pounds on cosmetic work alone |
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Broadcast 2011-08-24 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Body image -- Social aspects.
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Face -- Abnormalities.
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Face -- Abnormalities.
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Prejudices -- Psychological aspects.
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Surgery, Plastic.
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England -- Liverpool.
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Streaming video
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Ademola, Ola, contributor
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Armstrong, Tony, contributor
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Boateng, Dorothy, contributor
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Boateng, Michael, contributor
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Grey, Angelica, contributor
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Harvey, Gary, contributor
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Kathuria, Laxmi, contributor
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Neophitou, Sophia, contributor
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Phillips, Sally, cast
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Slack, Emma, director
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