Dating site expels members over holiday weight gain

If you ate a few too many cookies this holiday season, you may have found yourself on a receiving end of an account suspension from your dating site if you belonged to BeautifulPeople.com.

BeautifulPeople touts itself as “the largest network of attractive people in the world.” And they do not allow just anyone to join their site.  You have to go through a screening process before you can become a member, and even then you can still receive the boot if you don’t maintain yourself.  According to The Guardian, some 5,000 members have found themselves ousted from the site over holiday photos they posted of themselves that implied they had put on a little extra weight.

The exiled members broke down as 1,520 from the United States, 832 from the UK, Canada in third place and the remainder made up from members in Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Turkey and Russia.  All of the ousted members have been encouraged to re-apply for membership once they shed the extra pounds, and their ouster emails even included suggestions of boot camps they could attend that would help them with their goals.

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