Name: I Want a Famous Face
Genre: Reality, Documentary
Released: 2004-03-15
Rating: 4.0

Overview

I Want a Famous Face is a Reality television program on MTV, produced by Pink Sneakers Productions. The show features young adults who undergo plastic surgery with the goal of looking more like a famous person. Celebrities that participants have chosen to look more like include Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Ricky Martin and Victoria Beckham. The show also features short spots on how plastic surgery can go wrong from people that have experienced poor health resulting from their attempts at plastic surgery.

Seasons

Season 1

7 Episodes

2004

E01

Mike and Matt (Brad Pitt)

3/15/2004·30m

Mike and Matt, 20-year-old twin brothers from Arizona, want to look like Brad Pitt and become famous actors one day. They believe the only thing holding them back from big careers in Hollywood are their ""unattractive"" faces and that if they look more like Brad, they will finally make it big. Mike and Matt are both getting rhinoplasty, chin implants, and porcelain veneers and Mike is also having cheek implants. Will their facial overhauls be enough to make them superstars with the women they lust after?

E02

Mia (Britney Spears)

3/22/2004·30m

Mia, a 27-year-old Britney Spears impersonator from Orlando, Florida, already believes she naturally looks like Britney, but just needs new breasts to complete her look. Mia had already consulted with three different surgeons before the MTV cameras began shooting. Mia hopes that with her breast implants she will be able to quit her day job and score big bucks as a celebrity impersonator.

E03

Jenette (Kate Winslet)

3/29/2004·30m

Jennette, a 21-year-old college student and plus-size model from Tallahassee, Florida, wants the body of Kate Winslet. A year after undergoing gastric by-pass surgery, Jennette wants to have a body lift. Although she feels that she naturally looks like Kate Winslet, having a similarly voluptuous body could provide her with more modeling gigs than she can score now.

E04

Sha (Pamela Anderson)

4/5/2004·30m

Sha, a 19-year-old from Texas, longs to look more like Pamela Anderson and hopes to fill Pam's shoes as a Playmate and actress. She decides to get breast implants, lip implants and liposuction under her chin. With her new breasts, lips and chin Sha takes on her first test shoot for Playboy. Will she make the grade or will Playboy be disappointed with her new look?

E05

Jessica (Jennifer Lopez)

4/12/2004·30m

Jessica, a 23-year-old ""party girl"" from Chicago, wants to look like Jennifer Lopez and hopes to become a runway model. Growing up, Jessica had always felt like she was a man trapped in a female's body. After undergoing hormone therapy and starting the change to becoming a female, she has now legally changed her name and is ready to have cosmetic surgery to look even more like a woman. Jessica is having breast implants, cheek implants, her eyebrow bone shaved, an eyebrow lift and her hairline lowered. Will she finally embody the J-Lo look she's longed for and will she become a model with her new feminized appearance?

E06

Jesse (Elvis Presley)

4/19/2004·30m

Jesse, an Elvis impersonator from Las Vegas, has been in the impersonator game for eight years but feels like the competition is becoming increasingly tough to beat. Jesse feels he can stay on top by looking even more like Elvis, so he decides to get a chin implant, lip injections, and a chemical face peel to do the trick. Will his new look make him a bigger star and land him on the cover of Playgirl magazine?

E07

MTV News Now: They Wanted a Famous Face

3/8/2005·30m

What ever happened to Jenette, Jessica, Matt and Mike from Season 1? Tune in March 8 at 10:30 PM to see them and others from Season 1 in the MTV News Special: They Wanted a Famous Face.

Season 2

12 Episodes

2005

E01

Brandi (Carmen Electra)

3/29/2005·30m

Brandi is a 21-year-old go-go dancer who hopes to pursue a career like her idol's, Carmen Electra. Brandi knows that plastic surgery is the ""cutting edge"" she needs to perfect her Carmen look and is getting breast implants, lip injections and a nose job to make her look like her favorite star. She hopes having Carmen's body and breasts will ""electrify"" her modeling career and help her chances of posing for Maxim Magazine just like Carmen. In addition, Brandi hopes plastic surgery will finally convince her ""guy friend"" to give her the commitment she's been longing for, since he is a ""boob man"" and a huge fan of Carmen's.

E02

Jenee (Tiffani Thiessen)

4/5/2005·30m

Jenee is a hair stylist from Long Island who dreams of looking like actress Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. Jenee believes posing for Playboy will give her career the jump start it needs. She is always mistaken for and considers herself Tiffani's biggest fan. Jenee does everything from studying Tiffani's make-up technique to watching every career move she makes. Jenee hopes getting breast implants and liposuction on her stomach, back, butt and thighs will perfect her body. She thinks surgery will give her the confidence to expose her body at a photo shoot and to send her pics into Playboy.

E03

Jay (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

4/12/2005·30m

Jay is a 23-year-old Long Island student who, while not ""obsessed"" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, has always admired his perfect physique and chest. Jay has modeled his diet, body building and lifestyle after Arnold's--yet his Gynecomastia holds him back from achieving that perfect Arnold chest. He considers plastic surgery his only hope of terminating his ""man-boobs"" and winning him the girl of his dreams.

E04

Kelly (Jennifer Aniston)

4/19/2005·30m

Kelly is an extremely outgoing 26-year-old who is absolutely infatuated with Jennifer Aniston, whom everyone says she resembles. She buys clothes to match Jennifer's and owns all her movies. Kelly just divorced her husband and really wants to find a new man and start fresh with a new, ""hot"" body. She hopes that having rhinoplasty, breast lift and augmentation and extensive liposuction will help her finally be comfortable in her own skin. She dates frequently, goes country dancing with her girlfriends and yearns for the confidence to wear string bikinis so she can find her own Brad Pitt.

E05

Crystal U (Britney Spears)

4/26/2005·30m

Crystal is a shy, single 24-year-old Britney Spears look-alike who lives a normal life. She has a comfy office job but secretly desires a different life. Crystal thinks bigger breasts and a nose job will give her the confidence she needs to become a stripper. Not only that, playing up her similarities to Britney will allow her to impersonate the superstar when she finally hits the pole. Even if she doesn't go through with the stripping, she feels a makeover will help her land a job with the Anaheim Angels Strike Force, a sexy dance team that entertains the crowd between innings.

E06

Martin (Ricky Martin)

5/3/2005·30m

Martin is an outgoing 18-year-old college freshman who wants to look like Ricky Martin. He's hoping plastic surgery can get his longtime dream woman Marita to add some ""benefits"" to their platonic friendship. He thinks Ricky Martin's strong features are just what he needs to overcome Marita's lack of romantic interest and convince her to live ""la vida loca"" with him.

E07

Nikicia (Janet Jackson)

5/10/2005·30m

Nikicia is an aspiring singer/actress who hopes a Janet Jackson makeover will improve her look and marketability. She had liposuction nine months ago, but it only succeeded in taking off five pounds and angering her husband, who considered the procedure a waste of money. Although she is starting a Web site promoting independent singers/actors, Nikicia still doesn't feel comfortable enough to post her own pictures. She's hoping that surgery to give her a body like Janet Jackson's will give her the confidence she needs to make it big.

E08

Crystal Z

5/17/2005·30m

Crystal is a 23-year-old Hawaiian Tropics Model who'd love to look like her idol, Brooke Burke. Although she's competed in many modeling and beauty pageants, Crystal is very self-conscious about her body and has always needed to stuff her bra to feel confident. Crystal works nights as a ""beer tub"" girl and has been told she resembles Brooke Burke, who, like Crystal, is a mix of different ethnicities. Crystal hopes having surgery to further this resemblance will help her be as successful as Brooke.

E09

Jamie

·30m

Jamie is a 19-year-old punk rocker who dreams of resembling her childhood idol, Posh Spice. Jamie goes to college part-time, where she majors in Human Sexuality. She's hated her nose for a long time and now it's time for a change. While most girls her age save for a car or school, Jamie has been putting money away for plastic surgery. Her mom is afraid she'll become obsessed, but Jamie feels she's very realistic about her expectations. All she wants is a nose like Posh Spice, who she's loved since her days as a young Spice Girls fan.

E10

Audrey

·30m

22-year-old Audrey hopes plastic surgery will help give her bodacious, Jessica Simpson curves. Audrey currently does a little modeling, but feels her body has prevented her from getting the more glamorous modeling jobs. She's also very jealous of her sister, a Hooters girl with breast implants. A huge fan of Newlyweds, she thinks plastic surgery can help give her Jessica Simpson's body and flawless skin and salvage her modeling career in the ""Nick"" of time. Also, a new look would help her steal some attention from her sister and move on from her annoying Hell's Angel boyfriend.

E11

Vived

·30m

Carmen Electra is also idolized by Vived, a 23-year-old dancer who designs clothing for Barbie dolls and for her own clothing line. Carmen is her idol because of her success as a model, dancer and entrepreneur. Vived also wants her body to measure up to Carmen's, and thinks that breast implants and liposuction will do the trick. Vived hopes that plastic surgery will allow her to model in ""Playboy,"" just like Carmen. She also wants to feel sexy enough to model her own lingerie.

E12

Gia

·30m

Pamela Andersen's look is the one that Gia--a 26-year-old transexual porn star turned director/producer of her own adult films--is going for. Inspired by her friend Cindy, the ""Human Barbie,"" she's had over a dozen procedures and is going under the knife again to get a new set of breast implants, lipo on her abdomen and chin, another nose job, micrografts to her hairline and fat transferred to her smile lines. She loves Pamela Anderson and hopes plastic surgery will perfect her Pam look so she can leave the ""adult industry"" behind to break into mainstream acting--just like Pamela did with Baywatch.