My First A-head

This story came out of sweat and tears! It still as a little bit of blips, but it's my final version of the story. A-head are a lot harder to write than they seem...i plan to master them one day.



Secret Solution Slims Down Celebrities and Wanabees

Wrapped like a mummy in ACE bandages, a 30-something year old woman pumps her arms and legs back and forth on a gazelle. She’s wearing a plastic poncho, baggies over her feet and hands to trap toxins and fluids. The plastic bags fight against the creaking sound of the gazelle--she has only an hour to go.
This isn’t modern day torture. It’s another weight-loss tactic that guarantees instant inch loss.
This beauty product--The Body Wrap---is soaked in solution designed to release toxins and impurities from the body. People can take off anywhere from 10-30 inches in one session, a quick fix to become "suddenly slimmer."
Victoria Morton invented "Suddenly Slender: The Body Wrap" in 1969. Survived through polio, rickets and pneumonia, she now owns a franchise. As founder and president of Suddenly Slender Franchising USA, she’s invented more than 100 products for weight loss and age reversal.
"Everybody my age has cellulite and I do not," Morton says.
The 70-year-old ruby haired woman appeared on NBC’s Daytime flaunting her legs, slender and cellulite-free.
More than 10 million wraps have been given world wide by her licensed practitioners in the United States, Canada, the Carribean and Europe.
Ellen DeGeneres used it before the Oscars last year. Heiress Carolina Bacardi, disco diva Gloria Gainer, and even Dr. Phil McGraw’s wife, Robin McGraw, claim to use the product.
Wraps are now featured on Good Morning Texas, E!, Montel, and The View, among many other shows.
Tyra Banks visited Suddenly Slender Salon in Los Angeles with Maria on her show.
"I really hope this works," Maria says while getting wrapped in ACE tape, "I really want to get into that dress."
Measured before the procedure, Maria and Tyra wrapped themselves from head to toe in the mineral bandages. After exercising on an elliptical and jumping on tramps for an hour, the two were stripped down to see their instant inch loss.
Tyra lost 9.5 inches overall, including the 1.5 inches off her booty she wanted.
Maria, not able to zip up before, later appeared on the Tyra show in her new black dress.
"It feels great! I love it," Maria says gleaming, "I had no problems getting into it."
Now people everywhere are wrapping themselves in ACE bandages. Imagine thousands of mummy-wrapped people wearing plastic ponchos swinging their arms on an elliptical and jumping on tramps to loose weight. Elastic bandages, normally used to position wounded ankles, is now used to wrap the fat and shed inches off the body while tightening the skin tone--no more cellulite.
The Plano Body Wrap Shop is one of nine salons in the Dallas Metroplex featuring this product.
Laura Jean*, 48, started coming to the salon in October after hearing about it from two of her friends at work.
"Makes your skin tighter so you don’t just droop," Jean says, also claiming she’s lost 65-70 inches total since she first wrap. "I’ve actually lost more inches than I have weight."
Jean is also on a supervised diet and says she’s lost about 50 lbs total from wrapping alongside diet and exercise.
"You have water that runs off you," Jean says describing the Wrap, "You sweat out a bunch of stuff."
The toxic water rolling off the skin seeps into the plastic baggies wrapped around her feet.
Jean says the color of her "water" has changed since her first wrap.
"It was murky, but now it’s a lot clearer."
Judy Rafie, co-owner of the business says "toxins are everywhere." In your food. In your soda. In the air. "You go outside, you breath toxins," she says.
Rafie trained at Morton’s world headquarters in Clearwater, FL. In her Plano business she’s had clients ranging anywhere from age 13 to 90-something years old, she says. She also says about 60-70 percent of men and women who get wraps come before weddings, vacations, and parties. The other 40 percent come intending to loose weight. However, Rafie says the inch loss and suddenly slimmer appearance only lasts as long as the person does not gain more weight.
Rafie is not entirely sure of what composes Morton’s solution.
"It’s an if I’d tell you, I’d have to kill you type thing," Rafie says. A well-kept secret indeed.
However, Rafie did mention magnesium as one of the minerals used besides the formula. She says the magnesium, allows many people relax after using the wraps, and many of her claim to sleep well afterward.
Her shop like many of the others features some of Morton’s other products.
Face tape: a non-surgical procedure for face lifts. The also uses the bandages and solution along with tape to tighten the skin tone. The shops even claim this to rids people of double chins or puffy cheeks.
The Power wrap: instant breast reduction, no operating table involved.
Prices for these products can range anywhere from $40-$160, depending on the product.
Kelly Smith*, 38 , heard about the Body Wrap listening to the radio one day. She went online and found a location in Carrolton.
Her first visit she lost about 20 inches, more than promised, she said.
"It doesn’t burn or sting," says Smith,
Wrapped all up, swinging her arms on the gazelle and having secret solution poured on her for about an hour, Smith said it was all worth it.
"It feels funny because it’s tight and wet the whole time."
She like many other clients don’t like other people watching their meltdown, and wanted her identity concealed.
Jamice Rosales, worker of the Carrolton shop, says many of her clients "freak" even if a new technician wraps them.
Back at the Plano shop, a woman pumps away while watching television.
Every 20 minutes, Julie Burkhart, newly trained practitioner, bastes her brown-bandaged skin with warm solution--much like one would a gizzard.
Burkhart snaps on a pair of rubber gloves.
"The toxins are comin’ out, and I don’t want ‘em on me," she says walking into the next room toward the bagged and bandaged woman.
Finally.
"Jennifer, it’s time!"



*Last names changed to conceal identites.

Sites:
www.tyrashow.com
www.slimwrap.com --LA Suddenly Slender Salon
www.suddenlyslender.com
Suddenly Slender World Headquarters:
727-298-0808 or 1-800-221-6793

I also have the sources with telephone numbers, but this is the Internet so yeah, it's to protect their identities and well-being (sorry stalkers, LOL).