Keeping Up with the Drama

I’ll admit it. I enjoy watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but watching four hours of the show over the course of two nights really makes you realize just how silly all of the drama is. You have to hand it to the Kardashians and everyone involved in creating the show, they know how to take a flame and turn it into a forest fire. For example, the wedding special featuring the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Chris Humpfries also focused on the weight gain of Rob Kardashian. They managed to make it seem as though he might be nominated for the Biggest Loser at any moment when really he’d only gained a few pounds. While his sisters ranted about how unhealthy he was, the editors chose to cut to and from shots of him eating. How can we know that the Taco Bell trip that they chose to show wasn’t, in fact, his only trip there in months?

Then Kris Jenner, mother of the bride, decided to get elective plastic surgery shortly before the wedding. Despite the fact that she was presumably being operated on by the best surgeon money can buy, she still acted as though she was going to perish on the operating table. Then during surgery, with heart racing music playing, viewers got to see her with her flesh peeled back from face -a completely unanticipated sight. Now I feel that most people who say they are getting plastic surgery because they don’t like the way they look would think twice before giving millions of viewers the visual memory of them with their face off. Watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians for an extended period of time really makes you realize how little you can trust reality television. The stars are making a huge amount of money off of causing drama, and the film is cut to give viewers a more dramatic picture of reality. So while shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians may extremely entertaining, they should never be a trusted representation of someone’s life.