Jail Helps Martha Stewart
We’re a restless nation constantly seeking change. Just take a look at the self-help business, it’s huge. People send billions each year to get their life together. Book stores have self upon shelf of titles. The authors range from new age gurus like Wayne Dwyer, psychologists like Dr. Phil to peak performance mentors like Tony Robbins. Then there are the look good, feel good practioners like Richard Simmons.
Our national obsession with make overs is about making a buck and losing weight. In America it seems you cannot be too rich or too thin.
But a much over looked way to achieve infinite wealth and eternal youth is to go to jail. Yep, a few months in the slammer can really turn your life around - just ask Martha Stewart. Forced to spend 5 month in a West Virginia brig the doyenne of design exited three times richer and 20 lbs lighter. During her forced expulsion from Omnimedia the company’s stock soared. While the prison food was apparently so inedible that the svelte one slimmed down to a respectable size 5.
The new approach to self help has not been lost on others. According to the National Association of Correction Centers there is a now wait list to serve time.