Is the world ready for a disabled model?

That's the question that the new "Britain's Missing Top Model" reality TV series asks. I applaud the British for making some of the most interesting and entertaining TV on earth. I love all their cooking shows, reality series and I'll even watch a Top Gear episode with my partner. However, a disabled modelling reality competition... oh come on!

When I first saw this show I couldn't quite believe that there could even be a show on the topic. I'm all for everyone getting a fair chance and all that but a top model missing an arm/leg, deaf or in a wheelchair? It even seems more far fetched when fully abled girls who win the America's Next Top Model can't become Top Models!

I've watched the first two episodes and it's been pretty disappointing so far. It's not particularly entertaining. Ultimately even if any of these girls weren't disabled it'd be a stretch for them to become a Top Model. Being a model is really like being a freak. They're all freakishly tall, thin and have odd proportions about them. I think some can definitely do some modeling but not at it's highest levels.

The series do show that disabled people are no different than anyone else. As expected when you put 12 women living together there's going to be cattiness and these girls are no different. Sophie the girl in the wheelchair is resenting the deaf girls because they don't have an obvious disability. In her mind she thinks being deaf is not any different from being French! Oh yeah the bitches are out!