Overweight Members Shunned From Dating Site BeautifulPeople.com

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The exclusive dating site BeautifulPeople.com is making headlines for shunning members who gained weight over the holidays. The network has reportedly ditched 5,000 members for piling extra pounds over Christmas. BeautifulPeople.com is a dating platform that brands itself as the "sexiest website in the world." It has always been pretty straight up about its terms of use, the number one requirement on which is being attractive. The site says its basic premise of accepting beautiful people only might not be politically correct, but it is "honest."

The supremacist idea behind BeautifulPeople.com stirred up a lot of controversy from the get-go, but the move against fatter members saw BeautifulPeople.com make news again. The founder of the site says, "letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model." Perhaps not surprisingly, the most members booted for becoming heavier were from the United States, the U.K. and Canada. The service is available in ten different languages.

To become a member of BeautifulPeople.com, applicants are required to be voted in by existing members of the opposite sex. Members rate all new applicants over a 48 hour period based on whether or not they find the applicant ‘beautiful’. Should applicants secure enough positive votes from members, they will be granted a full membership to the BeautifulPeople Network. But, who knew the existing members were not safe and could be axed if their looks change?

It is being reported that the network administrators scanned the pictures that their members posted after the holidays to single out members who gained too much weight, dumping 5,000 of them in the process, which begs the question of how many members were there to begin with if so many members got ditched for getting a little fatter over the holidays.

The shunned members did have a chance to try their luck again, however. They were eligible to re-apply and join the community again, but only a few hundred were reinstated. Over 5000 members were banned permanently though. With such a drastic member turn-off, it seems BeautifulPeople.com is not afraid to run out of cuties. Interestingly, the network took action after other existing members complained that some of the members let loose over the holidays and did not deserve to remain in the member database anymore.