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The Tuesday after Labor Day, Patti Stanger, namesake star of the popular Bravo reality program “The Millionaire Matchmaker, ” was standing in her Marina del Rey, Calif., office — a raw industrial space with red-painted walls and matching red chairs shaped like lips — preparing to douse one of her clients in the cold water of her now-notorious realism on a misty late morning.

“Today we’re planning to do an inside makeover on a lady, ” Ms. Stanger explained, she had posed for Sensa, the appetite suppressant responsible for her recent 25-pound weight loss as she forcefully flipped through an issue of Life & Style magazine in search of an ad in which.

“She can’t appear to get from A to B, and she constantly listens to my advice and does not do it, ” Ms. Continue reading →