BeautifulPeople.com, a dating website that only accepts 'exceptionally attractive' people, is recently making waves in the internet, especially after cheating website Ashely Madison made headlines in recent months.
Even though the Beautiful People blog said "everyone is beautiful," BeautifulPeople.com is a site aiming to keep the ugly out, reported The Daily Mail. The Beautiful People blog gets wanna be members hyped with the fact that their dating website is a place where everyone is actually beautiful.
"Imagine a dating community where EVERYONE is actually beautiful," the blog writes.
Run by married couple Greg and Genevieve Hodge, BeautifulPeople.com began in 2003. Since then, more than 7.5million people rejected after undergoing a rigorous 48-hour vetting process. Existing members sift through applicants' photos and profiles, afterwards voting on whether they think those applicants are "beautiful" or not.
Greg Hodge, the managing director of Beautiful People, is also the owner of a London nightclub, and it's highly likely that this background had Hodge running BeautifulPeople.com the same way, according to The Inquisitr.
"Beautiful People is an elite online club, where every member works the door," it says in the website.
Over the years, members of several dating sites have complained about other members who look worse in real life than their online profiles. With Beautiful People, this problem is avoided, and the site promises members will only connect, and possibly make a connection only with "REAL beautiful people who actually look in real life as they do online."
Recently, 23-year-old model Joslyn Stabile from Boston, won the website's swimsuit competition. She reportedly received the most votes from members who rated her beach photograph online.
"'I'm thrilled to have won this, especially considering the competition - so many stunning women on this site," she said.
In the past, the website's strict vetting process has attracted criticism. It is for this reason that earlier this year, over 3,000 members were let go because they hadn't aged gracefully. Periodically, Beautiful People reviews the suitability of all members in order to keep the quality of the site's members.
Out of desperation, some people have reportedly undergone extreme makeovers to get in. Even with more than 750,000 members worldwide, the dating site claims that one in eight applicants or 90 percent of applicants are rejected during the vetting process.
Hodge is disturbed by this fact, but only because of the loss in earnings.
"This hurts me... I see dollar signs just walking out the door. It's a tough business model, because most of the people that knock on the door don't get in," he said.
Watch an interview with Hodge below.
Know more about the elite dating site here.
