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Beauty & The Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice – Featuring Reggie Bibbs and Gary Thompson

Series investigating the extremes of discrimination. Each episode brings together two people often defined by the way they look – one has a facial disfigurement, the other an intense preoccupation with their appearance.

Twenty-one-year-old beautyholic and drama student Gary Thompson meets 47-year-old Reggie Bibbs from Houston, Texas.
Gary has spent up to £31,000 in the last five years on looking good. He wants to have a nose job and look like Kim Kardashian.

Reggie has one the world’s most extreme cases of neurofibromatosis, a condition where tumours grow all over the body.
Gary learns about Reggie’s past and how he spent 30 years hiding from other people.

Reggie sends Gary to watch a rhinoplasty operation and he sees a surgeon breaking a patient’s nose. He also meets Tammy, a former rhinoplasty patient whose operation went wrong and who now has no sense of smell as a result. Will Reggie persuade Gary not to have a nose job?

Featuring: Reggie Bibbs and Gary Thompson

This video was produced by Betty TV in London, England for Channel 4 featuring Reggie Bibbs, founder and Director of the Just Ask Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. By posting this video on VIMEO, Reggie Bibbs, the Just Ask Foundation and its Directors are not receiving payment or any monetary or financial gain by airing this video. Copyright remains with Betty Productiona and Channel 4 TV in London, England.

 

 

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2 Responses to “Beauty & The Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice – Featuring Reggie Bibbs and Gary Thompson”

  1. adgiant Says:
    August 11th, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Great job, Reggie and Gary!

  2. Boyer-Madrieres.Francis Says:
    August 14th, 2012 at 7:09 am

    Dear Reggie
    i watched this video o vimeo. What a interesting report. You were marvellous and fantastic. Congratulation. Kind regards Lulu Francis

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I'm delighted to received the out pouring of kindness to me when my story is aired. Thank you for supporting me. I'm happy to hear from everyone who writes. I receive every message, and I will reply to anyone who write me. I'm never to busy to reply. Thank you for taking the time to read this and helping to “Make it a Tremendous Day!”

Reggie Bibbs

Reggie Bibbs and the Just Ask! Foundation operate on a shoestring budget, as many non-profits do. We rely on the charity of others. Others who are moved by Reggie’s calling and touched by his courage.

But the “charity of others” doesn’t always mean cash donations. There are many ways you can help Reggie in his mission to spread awareness of NF and inspire others like himself to start living fuller, more rewarding lives.

To learn more about Reggie’s needs and how you can help, read this personal letter from Reggie.