S16.E48: I'm Obsessed with Staying Young

[Empress1]

Did anyone see this? Chanel was kind of a mystery to me. I assume she got her English accent from her mother's side because neither her father nor her grandmother had one. Her blood bath was really really really gross (I hope she bought her father or grandmother some new towels). And I wondered how, at 19, she ended up as the HR manager for a consulting firm.

 

Marcus was ... First of all, he looked WAY better - and much younger - before he started fucking with his face. The plastic surgery and Botox have actually aged him. Contrast him with his friends he went to dinner with, who I assume were around his age and hadn't messed with their faces - he looked ten years older than they did. His waxy face was freaking me out.

 

Second, he seemed really psychologically unwell to me - when he was telling his boyfriend that he was escorting and doing porn, he just thought his boyfriend was going to be OK with it because it was "for him?" When the boyfriend expressly said he didn't want him doing that? Where they do that at? 

 

Also, when he said he couldn't work a 9-5 making $8 an hour, I wondered a) why not, and b) why it was apparently good enough for his boyfriend, who looked like he worked for the post office or something (no shade; my grandfather retired from the post office). I wondered if he was angling for his sugar daddies to just fund his lifestyle completely. His 47-year-old ex who dumped him for a 20-year-old really messed him up.

 

He's going to look like the Cat Lady in a few years.

[TheGridMonster]

I'm convinced that English accent was faked.

[divaTy]

It absolutely was. She pretty much dropped it when she was talking to her grandmother. This is a prime example of someone who just wanted to be on TV. Chanel was full of it. $300 a month on Palmers cocoa butter and aquaphor? Please. I don't think that was even blood she was using.

Edited April 15, 2015 by divaTy

[trashjunkie]

Yeah, count me in as someone who believes wholeheartedly that her accent was a put-on.  It came and went, and was extremely affected, not at all the way someone who's actually from the UK speaks.  It did not endear me to her in the slightest.

Edited April 15, 2015 by trashjunkie

[Empress1]

$300 a month on Palmers cocoa butter and aquaphor? Please.

I cracked up when she showed us Palmer's, one of the beauty products she spends $300 a month on, as though it was some exotic thing. You can buy Palmer's in any drug store or supermarket for less than ten dollars. It's great for moisturizing the body, but fancy it ain't.

[aulait]

Possibly the worst people EVER? Delusional seems to be the only word I can think of to describe them.

 

Marcus gave me the willies. I don't think he loved Devine but was getting something out of it (money? place to stay?). He was so so so annoying. He knew exactly what his problems were and had somehow manipulated Devine into thinking it was acceptable. I'm sure your partner who said he didn't want you escorting will be SO pleased to see you do porn. Just go ahead and shove the video in his face and tell him he was the one who made you do it. Major skeezeball. Sometimes I think I'm way too old for this show because I can't even look on some of this as humorous sometimes!

[starri]

I don't usually watch True Life, but I happened to catch this particular set of trainwrecks.

 

I don't really know where to start here.  I guess Chanel was the easier of the two, with her wobbly accent (I'm surprised her awesome grandmother didn't make some comment about that, but I guess they're used to it), and her interest in cosplaying as Elizabeth Bathory.  Her boyfriend must be a saint.  And--while I don't know if there's a sensitive way to say this--I kind of wondered if she'd been bleaching her skin.

 

Marcus...hoo-boy.  Where to start?

 

In a small way, I have some sympathy for him, because I had the impression that he was part Asian and hated that.  The gay community seems to mostly either dismiss or fetishize Asian men, and so I can see how that could mess him up.  But damn, the preternaturally smooth skin was incredibly creepy.  And yeah, it was messing up a kid (still a kid no matter what he thought) who had been really cute before he lost his mind.

 

There's nothing wrong with either sex work or porn, but there's a big problem with doing those things while you have a partner who doesn't want you involved with it.  Especially when you're able to delusionally rationalize it that your partner will magically be okay with it in the end.  I hate armchair shrinks, but that kid has a personality disorder.  

 

Wasn't wild about seeing Devine getting physical with him, but I do understand his frustration and wanting to get away from Marcus.