What do you think of JFK'S looks?

I never got this idea that he was suddenly the best looking president in history or some shit. There are quite a few that beat him to that. No doubt he was charming but physically I never got the appeal. He had a big ole fat moon face. Bobby was cuter.

Great smile and a quick wit made him attractive.

He doesn't look good on a sock.

I never found him attractive. The idea that so many did, really confuses me.

Beautiful on the inside. Gorgeous soul.

Best looking American president in history at the time of his presidency.

If a pug dog turned into a human that's what it would look like. His brother was good looking, he was not. Not ugly but not exactly handsome.

R7, which brother?

Overrated as hell. Jackie too.

Blood spattered and missing half his head. No thanks.

He was devastatingly handsome at the ‘56 convention (at about the same age his son was when he died), but the meds he was taking for Addison’s Disease really caused his face to get bloated by the time of his presidency.

He looked better than his son

He looked like the popular high school class president at midlife. Retained the friendly charisma but also seems a little off peak

He had his moments.

You have to like the redhead/Blondie freckle, gaptooth big ear thing. It's very cute but ages like, well....Irish skin!

He had charisma which goes a long way.

Handsome young man

He was, at his peak..a 7...no more , no less.

To thread derail, I honestly think he had ankylosing spondylitis. Which means others in his family may be prone to this genetic autoimmune disease as well.

,,,,,,,

Nice lips & hair.

R17, oh my that's possibly the hottest I've ever seen him. What year is that pic from?

No caption to pic, but I'm great at dating pics. I say it's him just as he's elected to Congress as Representative in 1946, so he's 29 here or there about.

- R17

Nice cheekbones

So very handsome. Unless pictured along with his brother Joe, always the most handsome man in every one of his pics.

A mere 7 ... at best?!?

At 35.

[quote]I never found him attractive. The idea that so many did, really confuses me.

You sound easily confused.

At 21.

At 39.

Also at 39.

[quote]He looked better than his son

You're in a tiny minority with that belief.

At 39+, R32, Sr. looked better than Jr. at 38.5 (his age at death), whose jawline was softening appreciably.

Not handsome at all and always found it odd that he was routinely described as such. When he was young he was better looking than when he was president, but even then his features were too irregular for me to consider him ever handsome.

He was our youngest president at that time...maybe that has something to do with it.

[quote]Beautiful on the inside. Gorgeous soul.

I listened to books on tape back in 2004 whilst driving cross-country. One was a biography on JFK. My partner and myself both got a sense that he was actually kind of rotting from the inside.

I disagree, R33.

JFK Jr. had a better harmony of features compared to his father, softened jawline notwithstanding. JFK probably was more charismatic, but I bet if you ask random people, they'll say the son was better-looking.

R34 must be the same poster who thinks Christopher Reeve was ugly, too.

More of young JFK.

And more.

He was a great dancer... All the boys said so 😍

At r14 he looks like Mark Wahlberg and at r20 he looks like Peter Fonda.

At the 1956 Convention, shortly after his 39th birthday.

Yes, looking at the pics from 1956, when he was 39, Sr., at 38-39, had it over Jr.

JFK, Jr. was verging into Fred Savage in appearance near the end.

Jack was all top...

What guy doesn't look good with a puppy and his Gay best friend?

R35 Why?

1950 - aged 33

A nice selection of the early years.

super handsome and hot. i definitely jerked off to a photo of a young JFK when i was a gayling.

JFK, Jr. was definitely getting jowly.

@r50, This one?

... or this one?

He was passably attractive but certainly nothing major league. Many people, especially females, have no taste when it comes to politicians. I remember when they were saying Bill Clinton was the most gorgeous politician to ever walk the planet and women all over the country were constantly moist over him. Even in his young years I never gave him a second glance.

^Again, the Christopher Reeve basher is on the loose (& off his meds).

^ Yep, the no one is gorgeous unless I say they're gorgeous troll

He had great eyes

He was energetic and smart--attractive qualities....but physically? No. Never got it.

"He was energetic"

You could say that... Like a rabbit

Looked better when thin

His looks depended entirely on his weight/health. He was awkward and gaunt as a teen, but stunning in his 20s--fit, with great bone structure that allowed his really beautiful eyes to pop. After he got out of the military and went into politics he started looking gaunt and awkward again. By his late 30s/early40 he filled out a bit and was straight up sexy, but by the time he was elected president he was starting to show the ravages of Addison's and the meds (and probably also his lifestyle). The bloating was evident although you could still see the handsome. He did lose some weight during the presidency which helped once again showed off his bone structure, but just before his assassination he was puffed up again and starting to look jowly/droopy.

This site has a gallery of him over the years and it's startling to see just how much his weight and looks fluctuated.

One of my favorite pics from that gallery of him with RFK: two very handsome brothers, this is 3 years before the Presidential election (JFK is about 39/40).

He was always thin, even when he became POTUS. His face grew fuller as a result of steroids, among a rather long list of other prescriptions he was taking, in addition to recreational drug use - marijuana, cocaine, LSD, meth ....I'm sure there's more. He was also a sexual swinger all his adult life with a particular appreciation for group sex and orgies. Supposedly, there are pics but you'd never know it was him because everyone wore masks.

And this is about 5 years later, just a few months before the assassination. The stress of the Presidency ages, but this is clearly more that that. He's only about 45.

R63 he was never heavy/fat, but there were times he was lean and fit, and times he was gaunt.

You can see JFK Jr. in JFK’s younger self, especially around the eyes. I’m always surprised people think isn’t JFK’s son.

People say Jr started to hit the wall before he died, but it was really just his Bouvier genes giving up and letting the Kennedy genes ascend with the hostile take over.

R67, damn he was still one of the most beautiful men on the planet. I think he would have loved to be appreciated a bit for his intellect.

Obama was handsomer imo, especially in his first term.

R69, legally blind.

Obama is very handsome, but he also borders on gaunt most of the time. If he put on a few healthy pounds, he'd be a stunner too.

I guess I find it hard to look on someone as handsome when they brag about droning to death a 16 yo kid with the quip "I guess he had the wrong father".

That world leaders have people murdered is no surprise, but taking enjoyment in it is thoroughly unappealing.

Yes I'm sure you quiz your hookups in minute detail about their geopolitical outlook before you decide if they're good looking enough R72.

Re JFK Jr., this is him the year before he died. If that's hitting the wall, well shit, let me be that wall.

(I also love that they talk about THAT Seinfeld episode.)

Cite your source please, R72.

You can argue till the cows come home whether JFK was in some abstract sense handsome. Definitions change, but at the time he defined the handsome preppy look. Some here well into their 70s are probably still adopting it.

It was his "staff member", but he signed off on it. he personally set those lists, and hired that staff, and never walked that shit back.

And he never got us out of these shitty wars, when he very likely could have.

R72, um… what the fuck are you saying?

R77 Obama could likely only be considered attractive truly when young, perhaps similar to JFK in that manner.

Long before the duties of that job took a toll on his looks or psyche.

Which isn't the same thing as saying he is ugly, btw.

He got nothing on our Pete.

Pete Buttigieg will be the most handsome president ever when he becomes one.

I never thought his son was that hot either

My mother said he had great hair. JFK Jr. was more my style.

R79 "What, me worry?"

R73, while hitting the wall still looks good on JFK, Jr., there can be no doubt that his looks had peaked.

r81 again, my mom also said it was nice to have a young family in the White House.

He was well known to the Washington social scene, and he was well known in Massachusetts, but he wasn't part of the larger consciousness until he ran for President. And honestly, after Eisenhower and then all the old grey white men who ran in the primaries, like Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, etc.

4/10

Eunce was ugly and got the better looking brother. Although rumor was Jackie slept with Bobby after Jack died.

If you read the book Delores by Jackie Susann... Jackie slept with Bobby then married Onassis who had dated her sister. Onassis left her on their wedding night to be with Maria Callas.

If you grew up in the early 60s and had ambition, you wanted to look like JFK and go to Harvard.

JFK was on the covers of Time and Life magazines a number of times each throughout the 1950s before running for President. He was a Pulitzer prize winning, best selling author from one of the wealthiest families in the United States. He was a war hero in addition to being a US Senator from 1952 onwards. He was very well known throughout the nation long before becoming President - that was the first part of the master plan.

R89 Add in his highly-publicised marriage to Jackie and his father's stints as SEC chairman and American ambassador to Britain. I can't think of anyone of his generation better known in the 50s.

As monumental as WWII continued long after its end, it's always amazed me that, so relatively soon thereafter, the son of a prominent Nazi appeaser could be elected president.

The only time my Trumper mother ever voted Dem was JFK. As a small child my mother took me to see him. When JFK appeared my tight, conservative mother started screaming as if Elvis had walked out. Until this day I've never seen my mother so excited to see a man in her life. I still have a picture of him that my mom took.

r92 are we related? I think the only time my mother voted Democrat was for JFK. She is not a collector but she saved magazines and books about him.

[quote]I never thought his son was that hot either.

Well, that settles that, then, if R80 never thought JFK Jr. was that hot.

@r93, Lol, say what you want about JFK, but he could melt the most hard-ass women anywhere

JFK JR]r. was, without a doubt, the hottest guy on the planet when he was alive.

When he was in his 20s & up until his mid-30s or so, R96, but no longer by the end of his life.

Omg

Obama was a smoker until he entered the White House. Even then, his Secret Service detail observed his sneaking cigarettes. I suspect that decades of smoking contributed to his "gaunt" look. I wonder if he picked it up again after 2016.

JFK, Jr. was on crutches at the end of the month, forcing him out of the gym & leading to the weight gain, noticeable in the face as has been documented. That would’ve been reversed when he mended.

^end of his life

R96 is correct. How many men could have plausibly been the subject of the Seinfeld contest episode? John John was maybe the one man on the planet no one would have any trouble believing could make Elaine lose.

Hot

They were not for me.

[quote] He got nothing on our Pete. Pete Buttigieg will be the most handsome president ever when he becomes one.

Please see a mental health professional regarding your obsession with this gay public servant becoming president.

Hot.

Very good looking in his teens and twenties. He was also the most photogenic Kennedy kid and he knew it; easy and confident in front of the camera even at a young age (though that could've been rich BMOC swagger), which goes a long way.

He was the most handsome President.

He didn't have a lot of competition, R108.

He was quite the looker.

As to Jackie's looks, Diana Trillling recalled that she "was a hundred times more beautiful than any photograph had ever indicated."

Also from R111's linked article: "One of the things that struck me was Bobby Kennedy’s good looks. He was infinitely better-looking than the President, but he didn’t exude anything like his brother’s power."

DLers don't seem to be able to grasp the reality that a person's physical appearance accounts for only part of that individual's overall attractiveness. So many other aspects of a non physical nature are at play. The sound of the voice, the mannerisms and demeanor, levels of confidence and charisma, intelligence, humor, the energy projected are some non physical traits which can be quite impressive and impactful.

And, R113, they don’t account for the fact that some people aren’t as photogenic as others & could look much better in the flesh.

Don't know why people think he was handsome. He had beady eyes and jowls. Teddy was good-looking when he was young. The only Kennedy who was.

He was dreamy.

Not attractive at all. I think Woodrow Wilson was hotter.

He had good hair same as mediocre Trudeau.

Yes R11 DEVASTATINGLY handsome!

He wasn't an Adonis, but he was handsome. He had a great sense of humor, a great mind, and power.

R110, great video!

I think it's arguable that his personal charisma is what knocked people over. The same with Princess Diana. Sometimes the mere physical presence of a person blinds you to any facial imperfections they may possess.

Example of this are Mick Jagger, Jackie On Assistance's second husband... names escape me.

JFK did not write "Profiles in Courage". His father, the purely evil Joe Sr. took care of that.

As for JFK being so "energetic", that involved regular injections of meth. Jackie too.

The whole Camelot thing was a fable made up by Jackie after JFKs' death.

All smoke and mirrors. Peak JFK being a 7 at his peak is about right.

I think we can all agree he was very good looking for a politician. Did he look like a gorgeous A list movie star? No but no one is claiming that. Same deal with Jackie.

By the time he was 50, he was really losing his looks.

I think he had that Robert Redford thing going on that seems to make him glow. It's partly the Irish ginger, but also something special.

[quote]By the time he was 50, he was really losing his looks.

Dying at 46 tends to have that effect.

Depends on his meds. Prior to taking steroids and when his back surgery almost killed him he looked like he had AIDs. He was emaciated at140 lbs . His nickname was Rat Face. After the successful surgery and the steroids his face filled out he put on some weight and became the JFK of our memory. He always had a big head on a scrawny body. He started watching his diet because his face would become puffy from cortisone.He hated his "chicken legs". Average to small cut cock. Did I leave out the unnatural yellow bronze skin tone cause by Addison Disease that he disguised as his famous tan. Don't touch the hair! In fact don't touch him at all above the waist. Freak about his hair. By time he was president he was using a henna dye to cover his greying hair. His mistresses use to rub it in with his scalp messages. Used tan makeup foundation to cover up sickly complexation. Half inch lift in one shoe as one leg shorter then the other. Left hand shook with tremors. Always gassy due to colitis and food allergies. Nearsighted worn glasses but never on camera. Tattoo of shamrock on his thigh later removed. Hands always manicured had special cuticle pencil to keep nails white. Changed suits ,shirts 4 times a day. Used a custom blended woodsy pine cologne . Smoked thin cigars not cigs to cover up the farty smell. That being said Jack Kennedy was FABULOLUS!

R128, where'd you hear that about his gassiness?

Junior was cuter

Improved version

R128 How did they remove tattoos in the 50s?

Did you see the cock personally?

Both JFKs - they were bisexual, you know....

R128 I've been convinced for years that Joe III dyes his hair with henna. I even think I know the brand. My sister uses it.

If anyone new his cock size it was Lem Billings.

Amateur.

Ted Kennedy was really handsome as a young man. Obviously he didn't age well

Don't know about Sr shamrock tat but Jr definitely had one.

My dad had a tattoo of his first wife removed. Pre laser they would just cut it off. Left a nasty scar.

JFK's autopsy notes a scar on his thigh but they think it was where he had to inject himself daily with cortisone for his Addison's disease. Perhaps the site got infected frequent injection sites often do.

^ That's why my poonanie smelled so bad.

Politico - out with new article about young Rep. Kennedy - has a JFK pic I've never seen before. His (great) looks always appear timeless.

Starting at 0:52, the 39-year old JFK was so handsome. Even more so in the context of his times.

[quote] best looking president in history or some shit

Put it in the toilet, please R1!

We're talking about American Royalty here.

Again, at the age of 39.

He was no John-John.

At the same age, at least, in their late 30s, R146, I give the nod to the old man.

I always though Bobby was handsome.

Gorgeous and very desirable late teen through late twenties ; steroids began to take their toll, but he maintained a young maturity most of his remaining life. I realize that power and money are great aphrodisiacs, but to me, physically, he was lickable throughout his entire life …and, other than my parents, one of the few deaths which made me cry.

He did good by his son.

I thought JFK was quite unattractive. I've never been partial to freckled men. I thought he was goofy looking. Now JFK Jr is an entirely different thing! He was a looker.

[quote] He believed the world was going to end by nuclear war.

and

[quote] He was sure that we were going to be in a war with Russia.

But everyone in 1960 said that

JFK's good looks were noted in a Drew Pearson 1953 blind item: "Which handsomest of all pols has been voted 'Senate's Gay Young Bachelor' by the Saturday Evening Post? Our money's on a certain ambassador's son."

JFK had goat eyes. The only good-looking Kennedy bro was Teddy when he was young. RFK looked like Bugs Bunny.

What was wrong with JFK'S eyes?

He had goat eyes. Ugly.

R156, he had large and beautiful wide spaced eyes

Up until his late 30s, he was a god.

R158 you're not hard to please.

Au contraire, R159, I’m picky to a fault.

You have to take into consideration what he was compared to at the time.

^ a cross-section of the modern world wouldn’t be much better. With the scourge of obesity, we might even look worse now. People in the main - then or now - are not a pretty sight.

😍 The Kennedy Brothers were all considered swoon-worthy by the women of the 1960's.

^ and by a not inconsiderable number of men, too.

Didn't do it for me.

You think JFK was swoonworthy? Well compared to the rest of the politicians at the time. But that's a very low bar.

I just went to a Beto O'Rourke rally. There must have been at least 1,000 horny college girls there, slobbering all over him. Now, that's swoonworthy.

^ I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Beto O’Rourke, you’re no Jack Kennedy.

Fine. Average good looks, nothing special. Given a lot of praise for his looks only because male American politicians tend to be extraordinarily unattractive. Which is very interesting because I've noticed other countries seem to have more attractive men in politics. I'm not saying good looks are in any way necessary to be a talented politico, it's just an observation.

Judging by the hysterical reaction of UT coeds, Beto's the Harry Styles of politics. I hope all those little bitches will actually vote.

R167 Bentsen's son married a girl I went to junior high and high school with. They got divorced after a couple of years though. She's a lesbian.

R115 Teddy was way cuter when he was younger

Like Clinton you had to see him in person. Very charismatic and charming. Looks really aren't everything.

Young Teddy was more classically handsome, but young Jack was far sexier.

Part of his attractiveness was his self assuredness.

When he made a lofty statement you had the impression he was sincere.

🙊 The rumor was that Marilyn slept with both Jack and Bobby.

Don't get the praise for JFK's looks. He had beady, bulgy eyes and jowls.

I think many here are focusing on his looks as president. Although he was still handsome then, he was nowhere as good-looking as he was in his pre-presidential years.

R174 and that Peter Lawford and Bobby cleaned up after her suicide - if it was one which I doubt. Marilyn had called the White House the week before her death to tell Jackie she was having an affair with JFK. JFK had dozens of paramours but the media in those days hushed it all up. However, had Marilyn gone to the media it wouldn't have been. She was very dangerous to them.

What actor resembles him?

He was hideous. Absolutely ugly as shit. Never understood the appeal looks wise!

R179, why do you think he was so ugly? Just wondering

R180- Just not one attractive feature.. Looks like the Mad Magazine Guy.. Most of the Kennedys have that odd look..

His Ivy League looks have always been appealing to me. Plus, he shaved with a straight razor so there’s that daring side I’d like to explore.

He was handsome, especially in his Navy years. I think RFK was handsome too. However JFK Jr was better looking than any of them, including Jackie and Carolyn.

Great eyes

Looks like Brad Pitt

They're gone.

Puffy. Overrated.

If he hadn't been killed, this country would have kept getting better and better.

JFK wasn't ugly. But, he wasn't super attractive. I bet John John was secretly glad that he got the Bouvier looks instead of the Kennedy looks.

[quote] JFK wasn't ugly. But, he wasn't super attractive. I bet John John was secretly glad that he got the Bouvier looks instead of the Kennedy looks.

The 36-year old JFK WAS super attractive.

He’s dead!!

^ BEARKING NEWS!!!

He had "really good Presidental hair" just like I do!!

Thick dark brown hair, little grey on sides, Mr Sheffield grey streak on side, Red undertones.

Damn, I Love my hair!!

Who's the guy at R17?

JFK, R194.

He looks beautiful at R17 like a whole other person

I think he was a beauty most of his life ... until steroids started to bloat his facial features in his last years. Very much my type.

It was all about money, style and charisma.

Fat faces were all the rage (Aaron Burr)

He gets my loins stirring and tingling with lust in my heart.

He gives a semi boner in my pants.

I liked him as president and he also had a great sense of humor but I never found him especially attractive. Not ugly, though.

Bobby has rat teeth.

I could see the appeal when he was younger

He would have aged horribly like Teddy.

No, he was never a drunk like Teddy.