Pretending.
Pretending to be someone other than who you are.
We’ve all thought about it — but we haven’t acted on our impulse since we last did a backward somersault like Leonardo the Ninja Turtle, or abused our hair like Cyndi Lauper.
But Lesley Townsend is not like you. She’s stepped into another role that’s totally foreign to the persona by which she is known to others, and to herself. She’s jumped outside her skin to morph into an entirely new life form not even she would have recognized a few months earlier.
Townsend is one of the contestants on the reality TV show, Faking It. The producers of the show find a suitable and willing candidate and for several days rapidly train him or her to be something else like when, for example, they took an insurance salesman and trained him to be a stunt man.
On their Web site, Lesley Townsend is described as “A Harvard graduate Manhattanite and a self-confessed geek who would rather spend her time with books than people. When she was in high...
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