E!'S "SECRET SOCIETIES" CUTS TO THE TRUTH ABOUT PLASTIC SURGERY WITH "PURSUIT OF PERFECTION" PREMIERING THURSDAY, AUGUST 7TH AT 8:00PM ET/PT

New Hour Long Special Exposes How Celebrities Attempt To Achieve The Ideal Body Through Shocking And Extreme Procedures

Los Angeles, CA- August 5, 2014- Botox, facelifts and tummy tucks are procedures of the past. Today, Hollywood's biggest names are doing the unimaginable to look younger and better than ever. This special exposes it all from the unimaginable injectable drugs and weight loss secrets to gender transformation surgeries and the latest nip and tuck operations. With help from a panel of experts including "Botched" doctor Terry Dubrow, fitness expert Christine Bullock, and trainer to the stars Adam Ernster, "Secret Societies: Pursuit of Perfection" discloses the new, extreme measures celebrities will go to when striving for the "perfect" body. This hour long special premieres Thursday, August 7th at 8:0pm ET/PT only on E!

Have you ever wondered how A-list stars and models lost that baby weight so quickly? Or how they continue to look youthful and in shape? For some of the biggest names, money is never an issue allowing them to undergo medicine's most unimaginable procedures to reverse aging and stay thin. From hip shaving to look skinnier, injecting steroids to appear buffer, voice lifts to sound younger and changing the color of your eyes to appear more exotic, stars have attempted it all. "Secret Societies" also uncovers the lengths celebrities go to lose weight including one model deliberately getting food poisoning, another star using prescription drugs to curb their hunger and another using a feeding tube to control how many calories they ate.

Plus, discover how Chaz Bono, Laverne Cox and others forever changed the transgender stigma in Hollywood by openly sharing their plastic surgery stories. And find out about the spiritual and religious approaches people take in hopes to fight inevitable aging through altered states of enlightenment and prayer.

Tune in this Thursday to find out more about the extreme measures stars take to look flawless when "Secret Societies: Pursuit of Perfection" airs this Thursday, August 7th at 8:00pm ET/PT only on E!

"Secret Societies: Fads and Fetishes" is produced by Prometheus Entertainment.

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