Nine spoiled princesses receive the shock of their pampered lives when their fed-up families cut them off from their finances and enroll them into an eight-week rehabilitation program designed to transform their pampered ways. The women must adapt to their new environment that has no cooks, valets or cleaners and very little closet space. With the guidance of professional life coach Laura Baron, the girls begin their long journey toward independence by downsizing their belongings, cooking for themselves, and learning to live like the rest of America.
The girls were first given the task of completing their chores in order to earn their $200 allowance for food. Gia, Chrissy, and Jessica decided not to do them, thus reducing the spending money to $125. After grocery shopping, the girls met with Sam Saboura, a top celebrity stylist to learn how to spend on a budget. The girls were first tested to see if they can tell which items were expensive, and which were not. Their challenge for the lesson was to create 3 looks made from clothes bought in a thrift store, and they could only spend $300.
Working nine to five is a foreign concept for our cast but they will finally learn what it means to earn a paycheck. To help them find their best suited positions, Laura has each girl write up a resume and meet for an interview with noted headhunter Stephen Viscusi. Due to their lack of prior work experience and limited enthusiasm, the girls are all assigned to work blue collar jobs in a shoe warehouse (aka, their worst nightmare). While some girls embrace the working world, others aren't as thrilled, as one diva misses the van to get to the job and another quits before the day is over. Later, Laura comes down hard on those that aren't keeping up and reminds the ladies that they'd better shape up if they want to graduate from the program.
With Laura's help, a few monks and a shiny mirror, the girls will learn the importance of being beautiful on the inside. Upon arrival at a Buddhist temple, the girls are introduced to the life of a monk- a life that finds the meaning of true happiness by living without material items. And then to test if the women are ready to find their own inner beauty, Laura announces that they'll be doing a photo shoot with a famous photographer - without their designer wardrobe and without make-up. While some girls embrace this lesson, others just don't. And when one princess bears her ugly side, Laura is forced to make a tough decision. Chrissy is removed from the program for disrespecting Laura and the program.
Tropical resorts are a thing of the past for these girls, who venture into the great outdoors to learn how to have fun on a budget on a camping trip, preparing food and building a campfire are difficult enough until they discover their toughest obstacle - there's no toilet. Later, tempers flare around the campfire when Gia abuses her powers as VIP by not only doing nothing while she tells everybody else what to do, but because it's her birthday, Gia decided to blow the food budget on things that she wanted and ignored everybody's food requests. Erica, Pamela, and Jacqueline later fight with her about this issue at the group session. Laura was taken aback by the constant bickering in the house. Because of this, Laura decided no one deserved the title of VIP for the week and the girls' chances of graduation are at jeopardy.
Professional life coach Laura Baron is back, overseeing a princess rehabilitation program for the out-of-control elite. Eight more spoiled princesses are plucked from their exclusive and extravagant lifestyles after their benefactors, fed up after years of bankrolling their expensive habits, cut the girls off from their finances. The girls learn their fate the hard way, thinking that they were auditioning for a reality show looking for the next "it" girl. Instead, these eight women must live together in a middle class two-bedroom house while they learn to cook, clean and live without the benefit of a cadre of personal assistants, chefs and hair stylists. As the girls set out on their difficult personal journey toward financial and personal independence, it may be too much for some in the group to handle.
After one spoiled princess reaches her breaking point and walks out of the program, a new girl arrives: the self-proclaimed Queen of Jersey Bling. Laura tests their willingness to take responsibility for their spending habits on a disastrous trip to a country club. The princesses run up several thousand dollars on massages, mimosas and manicures in less than 15 minutes and must work off their debt at the club. Cleaning the tennis courts and shagging golf balls from the lake leads to some fierce confrontations as these ladies learn what it means to pay their own tab.
Laura tries to teach the princesses to appreciate earning a paycheck as they enter the work force, flipping burgers and manning the fry vats and drive-thru window at a local fast food joint. Tempers flare as they struggle to work with one another...leading up to an explosive confrontation during group session as one girl refuses to accept Laura's guidance. Will the stress of being cut off cause another spoiled princess to quit the program?
Shortly After Jenn's removal from the show , Laura Explains to the girls about Jenn's departure . Money is usually no object when it comes to these princesses' wardrobes. But now they'll need to check price tags as they compete against each other to create a red carpet look for New York socialite Tinsley Mortimer. The girls will be purchasing clothes from a swap meet on a razor-thin budget. Celebrity stylist Robert Verdi judges these thrifty threads. But the girls can't help buying a few things for themselves on the side. Stress over budgets invades the homestead, as they wage war on one another over the weekly grocery list and food budget. At group session Laura explains about the Incident that happen earlier at the red carpet . Laura fails everyone & graduation Is still on the question.
The girls usually live to excess, but they encounter a lifestyle that's exactly the opposite when Laura brings them to an urban homestead: a eco-friendly self-sufficient house. They roll up their Gucci sleeves to help collect chicken eggs, wrangle goats and pile up compost on this organic micro-farm.
Despite being more accustomed to painting nails rather than hammering them, the girls help build a house for Habitat for Humanity as Laura teaches these spoiled divas about charity. Laura also tasks them to raise money by selling their brand-name clothing at a pawn shop, testing whether they will part with their ritzy labels for less-than-top dollar prices. Even though Jessica raised more money than anyone else, and what the family needed was money, the cast still frowned upon her greedy ways. The lack of charity by some causes a colossal rift in the house and a major blow up between two pampered princesses.
High heels are traded in for cowboy boots, as Laura sends the ladies off to a dude ranch to learn they can have fun on a budget. But fun is debatable for these divas as they tackle freezing desert nights, howling coyotes and a runaway horse that ends up injuring one girl. Without a five-star hotel, the great outdoors push the girls to their limits. Nadia falls off a horse and is sent to the hospital on a stretcher. Aimee and Nadia fight back at the house over Nadia's constant complaining. VIP is Lauren and there's no pass or fail this week. Graduation is next week and it seems like Marissa hasent learned anything. Aimee is going to have to find her own place and Hana needs to pay her own bills.
