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did ♪ tonight on "nightline" -- lose 20 pounds in less than four weeks? this doctor swears by a pioneering procedure so harsh we have to ask is it safe? but nothing fuels a dieter like the promise of a quick fix. tonight we're joining two young women on an extreme weight loss journey. she's a tough-talking housewife, a best-selling author, and a businesswoman who's created her own multimillion-dollar empire. that's a lot for one skinny girl. love her, hate her, bethenny frankel will tell it to you straight. but tonight we're sitting down for some frank talk. and a sinkhole swallows a resort in florida. how did this disaster plan keep everybody safe?

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thanks for being with us tonight. and let's be honest. unless you are a genetic freak or a cyborg created in the labs of dolce & gabbana dropping a couple of dress sizes in a month is going to hurt. now, traditionally that pain comes at the gym or on a liposuction table or under a whalebone corset. but now there is a new way to wince your way into a size 4. tongue surgery that uses pain to erase all joy of eating. it's called the tongue patch diet. if you think i'm making it up just to scare you, here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: meet marlene beltran and lisandra lanusa.

two women about to start one of the most extreme weight loss plans yet. the tongue patch diet. plastic mesh known for hernia repair is sewn onto the tongue making eating solid food painful if not impossible. >> this is our patch. there it is. we put it right into the portion of her tongue. >> reporter: it's a kind of aversion therapy, pioneered in the u.s. by cosmetic surgeon dr. nicholas shegay. he introduced the procedure four years ago after first seeing it done in latin america. >> it doesn't fit me anymore. >> reporter: lisandra lanusa, 27 years old and married. and 20-year-old marlene beltran. each hope to drop 20 pounds in 30 days. you heard that right. 20 pounds in one month. and they're ready to take desperate and extreme measures to make it happen fast. >> in a month's time i will be going to hawaii. i'll be wearing this bikini. and hopefully, i'll be looking

great. >> reporter: when it comes to food, lisandra can't help herself. >> i love eating everything. american food, korean. >> reporter: and neither can marlene. >> i have a sweet tooth. like in the middle of the night i'll be like oh, i want a brownie or i want ice cream. >> reporter: she wants to look like she did back when she was 16. and with that new rock hard body she's hoping to catch a man. >> this time i'm just really motivated because i am almost 21 and i do have plans. i want to look my best and feel good. >> reporter: and anxious to turn her tongue into a tormenting deterrent to dinner. >> reporter: what does it feel like is preventing you from wanting to eat? >> as you're swallowing a cheeseburger or something, that tongue is pushing things up across the roof of the mouth and back into the throat. so while it's doing that, it's going to basically be uncomfortable if you have that on top of the sutures, which are basically fishing line essentially. so now you have those two little sharp points. >> all right. the first stitch is already in. >> reporter: lisander is his

81st patient as he pioneers the process here in what arguably is the plastic surgery capital of the country, southern california. >> you're sewing a foreign object into somebody's mouth. is that healthy? >> well, it's not unhealthy. we have not encountered any of this. we have not seen any infections. we have not seen any patients swallowing the patch. >> surgery is all finished. wow. >> i can't feel my tongue. >> reporter: she'll be able to speak normally in a few hours when the anesthetic wears off. but all that greasy fried food she loves, forget it. it's a strict 800 calorie per day liquid diet of juice, broth, and shakes until the patch is removed in a month. >> how much weight are you guaranteed to lose with a tongue patch? >> i cannot say that you are guaranteed. but an average weight loss is

anywhere from 18 to 20 pounds. >> reporter: lisander's new motivation -- fear. >> i'm terrified of eating solid food. just thinking about having that much pain. >> reporter: finally, it's marlene's pain. on the morning of her tongue patch appointment marlene is more concerned about organizing all of the clothes she hopes to soon be able to wear. >> these are all jeans. like these are still brand new. >> they have the tags on. >> yesterday was when it finally hit me, like i'm not going to eat for weeks. >> are you ready? >> yeah. >> all right. stick your tongue out. good. perfect. >> reporter: after only ten minutes the patch is in place. marle marlene's patch was free because we are filming. but most patients including lisander pay $2,000 for the patch. >> good girl. all done. >> how's it feeling? >> i can't talk. >> it was quick, wasn't it? you don't feel it. >> reporter: but how would living with the tongue patch be? we folwed 30 days on america's

most extreme diet. >> does that hurt? >> no. >> reporter: for lisand yeer da one brings an immediate challenge in the home she shares with her husband and mother. >> this is what my mom cooked for break naft which i can't eat. >> reporter: she cheerfully begins her 45-minute exercise routine. three days and the patch is already paying dividends. >> i'm not hungry. i actually don't have appetite to eat anyway. >> reporter: so far so good. but across town marlene has a craving for just about everything. >> everyone's in the kitchen eating while i'm stuck in my room. and i want a burger. >> reporter: somehow marlene resists her craving. lisander, not so much. but her cravings come at a price. >> i tried like a piece of popcorn at the movie theater, and it hurt. so i'm like forget it. >> the popcorn hurt? >> yeah. >> and are you thinking, yes,

it's working, i don't want to eat? >> no. i'm like, i can't eat. >> reporter: it may work, but is the tongue patch surgery a good idea? >> have you ever received any flak from colleagues in the medical community for this? >> no, i haven't. >> reporter: dr. chugay, meet dr. rob huizenga. >> i think it's a barbaric procedure. >> reporter: better known as dr. h. he specializes in long-term weight loss, spending 14 seasons as an expert on "the biggest loser." >> this is so primitive an approach, you could hire somebody to hold a gun next to your head and threaten to shoot you every time you eat. the idea that you put this patch in and every time you even take one morsel of solid food you get this stabbing pain. who the heck knows what the long-term consequences of that are? >> reporter: dr. huizenga points to studies that show how most extreme dieters who lose weight rapidly eventually gain it all back and more. >> there's not one scintilla of hope or evidence that putting a patch on your tongue and not ts

going to have any effect on you at one year or two years or three years. >> reporter: dr. chugay's son and partner, dr. paul chugay, did submit a study that claimed 70% of their patients lost an average of 16 pounds and kept it off for eight months. but the american academy of cosmetic surgery won't publish it without more data. no matter. marlene is getting all the data she needs from her bathroom scales as the pounds fall away. >> it's not as bad as it used to be. my arms are lost in there. >> reporter: lisander is also watching the pounds melt away. >> so far i've probably lost 15, 16 pounds. >> reporter: and the men in their lives are taking notice. >> i'm getting a lot more attention from guys. which is nice. like it's attention i'm not used to. so i'm kind of still coming -- adjusting to it. >> ah. isn't that great? >> reporter: finally, liberation day comes for lisander. >> now you can stick your

out. okay. there it is. >> reporter: it's time to remove the patch and find out how much weight she's dropped. lisander loses 23 pounds. and that bikini she wouldn't dare try on before? aloha, lisander. the final tally? marlene loses 18 pounds. remember those skinny jeans she couldn't wear before? >> they finally fit. >> reporter: what do you see when you look in the mirror now? >> i see myself better, i guess. and really my husband is the most happiest person. than me, actually. he's like over the moon about my weight loss. >> reporter: to marlene and lisander the pain was worth the payoff. whether they will be able to keep the weight off remains to be seen. but so far so good. >> i'm excited. i'd like to see like how things turn out. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm cecilia vega in long beach, california. >> and lisander tells us that she has maintained her weight

loss two weeks later. so what do you think? what do you think of the tongue patch diet? you can tell us on twitter @nightline. and coming up next, a skinny girl real housewife opens up for the first time about her divorce.

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what does it take to be considered the realest real housewife? well, for bethenny frankel it's find a camera, overshare, repeat. and she's also managed to turn the fans who like this tmi into

the basis for a lucrative empire. but after living out a painful divorce under the reality show glare the star of "bethenny ever after" may have a ways to go till she gets the fairy tale ending. here's abc's deborah roberts. >> my vagina as a vase. >> reporter: she's the queen of tmi. >> i'm 31 years old. i thought that was normal. >> reporter: of classy take no prisoners tv star. >> stop [ bleep ]. >> reporter: some would say she's got the watchability of a human train wreck. >> how inappropriate is this? selling booze seven months pregnant. >> reporter: especially now with a messy divorce playing out in public. love her or hate her, bethenny frankel has gained fame and made a fortune since her debut as a real housewife of new york. >> new york city is my playground. >> reporter: her appeal, an ability to unapologetically display her true self. >> you were known as that blunt-talking housewife, that hardscrabble sassy gal. was that partly by design?

>> no. if anything, i would like to be a little softer. but you can't be who you're not. >> reporter: what she is is a savvy entrepreneur. bethenny's 100-calorie, ready to serve skinny girl margarita turned this housewife into a household name. >> i'm a woman who always wanted to have a cocktail but didn't want the calories. so i would always drink vodka on the rocks and then end up having a margarita anyway. and i said let me figure out a way to have a margarita that you could trust. >> reporter: two years ago she sold skinny girl cocktails to jim beam for an estimated 100 million bucks. >> this has kind of exploded now because women are interested in lower calories, obviously, but they still want to drink. >> it's crazy. this broke the code. it really did. it created a whole new category. it's one of the fastest growing liquor brands in the whole world. >> and action. >> reporter: cocktails are just one slice of this skinny girl's big business. >> three new delicious ways to drink like a lady. >> reporter: her empire now includes workout dvds, nutrition

bars, and sexy shapewear. was your goal to be rich and famous? >> originally my goal was to be famous. fame is a tricky game. fame is a pandora's box. it changes like you can't just walk out in your pajamas. >> reporter: there's little bethenny won't share. her marriage to businessman jason hoppy was on full display in bravo's "bethenny getting married." >> you promise to honor his growth and freedom as well as your own. >> i do. >> reporter: and the birth of their baby girl brin in "bethenny ever after." >> wake up. >> reporter: it all looked like a fairy tale until recently bethenny and jason called it quits. their nasty squabble has now dissolved into a custody fight over brin. >> i'm going through a brutal, brutal time. there's no other way to slice it. i never knew it could ever be like this. i just didn't. >> do you regret leth the cameras roll on such permanent moments? >> i don't regret letting the

cameras roll at all. i could have skated by. i could have stayed on the show and said everything's perfect, it's great. it made me feel dirty for people to think i had this perfect relationship and a perfect life. >> do you feel like a failure? >> i feel like i disappointed people because i fell like i was this role model that you represented the fairy tale -- >> you're bruised. >> i'm definitely bruised. >> reporter: despite the low point, or maybe because of it, bethenny's career is now reaching new height with two big projects on tap for fall. there's a new book, her fifth, "skinny girl solutions," with practical healthy living advice. >> it's solutions to make women's everyday lives a little easier. a little more balanced. organization. but just on a micro level. when you walk into your bathroom cabinet and you look at that drawer with all the brushes and the nonsense, how to just organize that one moment of your life. >> reporter: and in case you hadn't heard, a new talk show backed by her friend, ellen degeneres. >> she was on the show, and the audience loved her. and i was so impressed that i said, well, do a show.

>> reporter: her test run last summer was vintage bethenny. unfiltered. >> sour cream is great for razor bumps. you can put it on your pits and just leave it there. you can take a chip and be like here, honey, are you turned on? >> reporter: this fall she promises again to go where no one else is willing to go. >> everybody knows that you can't sleep with a guy on the first date. you cannot. but you're probably going to. >> is there anything that's off limits on the new show? >> no. i don't want to go on there and make jokes about laser hair removal. it is sort of funny but it's not. i literally polled my whole office and said who's -- that's what the show is. every time i come in i get excited. >> reporter: only weeks before cameras get rolling bethenny gave us a look at her new studio still in development. >> this is it. this is where i'm going to be every day. >> reporter: and a peak at one of her production meetings. >> why are we having a meeting? they're all phenomenal. i mean, who cares? >> reporter: it's been a rough ride lately for bethenny frankel. >> what do you do to take the edge off? >> sex would be a nice release. and then i like to have a skinn.

i mean, i'm not going to lie. >> i was wondering when that was going to enter the discussion. >> it does take the edge off. i mean, honestly. it's mommy juice. >> reporter: yet somehow she still finds life worthy of a toast. >> down the hatch. >> reporter: a skinny one, that is. for "nightline" i'm deborah roberts in new york. >> more of bethenny's interview tomorrow on "good morning america." our thanks to deborah. and up next, how did the people at this florida resort escape being swallowed by the earth? could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake? uh-oh. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know.

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it wasn't exactly surrender in the war on drugs, but attorney general eric holder announced a kinder, gentler approach toward small-time drug dealers and users in order to thin out the nation's massive prison population. and a controversial police tactic is slapped down in federal court. so this seismic day in american crime and punishment leads tonight's "feed frenzy." >> it happens 2,000 times a day in new york city, and if you are young and black, odds are you know it well. >> how many times have you been stopped and frisked? >> seven times. >> seven times. >> yes, sir. >> and you're how old? >> 17. >> given that the vast majority of these stops end without arrest or a ticket, a federal judge today ruled that the

nypd's stop, question, and frisk policy is inherently racist, unconstitutional, and needs reform. but the mayor and his commish insist the policy keeps guns off streets and saves lives. >> today we have the lowest percentage of teenagers carrying guns of any major city across our country. >> reporter: the city will appeal. so the legal battle continues. remember jack nicholson in "the departed"? well, this boston mob boss slash federal informant character was loosely based on a real guy, james "whitey" bulger. and after 17 years in hiding and a capture in 2011, non-fiction justice was served today. the 83-year-old found guilty of extortion, drug trafficking, loan-sharking, bookmaking, and involvement in 11 murders. and if hurricanes and pythons aren't enough, new reason to fear florida. after another sinkhole swallowed part of a resort community not far from orlando. much of the state is built