The ugliest models ever?

Almost every one of 'em!

Bella Hadid.

A lot of high fashion models are ugly in every conventional sense. They are simply hired for being tall, striking and skinny. They usually deep set eyes, high cheekbones and clear skin and look unhealthy. They model for high-end brands and the focus in simply on the clothing not the person wearing it. Commercial models for mall and department store clothing and fragrances are usually prettier because they are targeting middle-class consumers who want to look at pretty people and feel hot if they buy the product.

R1 wow you tried so fucking hard!

yes r4, and I didn't have to use 'wow' in my sentence!

The Gazelle bitch and the Hadid sisters. Fuck, their ugly.

this era:

wrong image, this is the one I meant to link@R7

this bitch

Tess Holliday

Kristen McNemany or however you spell that beast’s name.

Jerry Hall

I've always thought Linda Evangelista is butt-ugly.

[quote]Bella Hadid.

I agree, she's absolutely horrid. I cannot believe the amount of ad campaign work this horror-show gets!

Her entire ugly boring face is due to a plastic surgeon and not a very good one. There is nothing unique or interesting about this 'model'. Bella tried to look like Carla Bruni and has mostly failed, then again, Carla had an obvious nose job.

Bella looks more like Bela Lugosi than a true beauty!

Tyra Banks - NOW

Ella Emhoff

[quote]I've always thought Linda Evangelista is butt-ugly.

Linda has a group of features which look odd individually, but as a whole, she's extremely unique and attractive. Linda has great eyes.

Years ago, I remember an editorial with Linda made up to look like Sophia Loren. I found one pic of Linda looking like Sophia.

Lily Cole. WTF?

Linda is gorgeous. You are crazy.

“I always felt like I had impostor syndrome. I never felt like a model”

Dree Hemingway

I always thought Margaux Hemingway looked kinda "special". A million-dollar contract with Fabergé? WTF?

The Hemingway girls can thank Ernest.

They are ugly.

R22 she looks like Gabriela Hearst if you have any idea what she looks like. Striking in a way but very gaunt and a bit masculine.

This one:

I've always thought Karlie Kloss looked like an alien. Talk about odd and cold looking.

BelaLugosi Hadid gives hope to every ugly girl in the world because if she can be a Model ANYONE can.

I think most runway models are not conventionally good looking. You will never find a Miss whatever on the runway.

What makes a woman conventionally beautiful like a lovely smile, expressive eyes, bountiful breasts and wide hips don't work for high fashion runway modeling where the clothes are the main focus.

Claudia Schiffer

Fetus face Miranda Kerr. Looks like an infant.

Pretty much all the models in the last ten years or so. Prior to that, models may not all have been "conventionally pretty," but they were all tall, slim, striking, with great bone structure. Now, it's a zoo out there.

I think Linda is beautiful, she really looks like Loren in the photo above. I also think Dree Hemingway is very attractive too.

Way to capitalize on your mother's maiden name, Dree Chrisman.

Lourdes Leon.

Gia Garagemi, Tyra Banks, Coco Rocha and Carolina hit in the face with a frying pan whatshername?

[quote]Lourdes Leon.

Nepotism 'models' don't count, they aren't real models.

[quote] Fetus face Miranda Kerr. Looks like an infant.

r30 Haha. Great observation.

R35, why do you always spell Gia's last name like that?

80s “supermodel” Kathy Ireland. Never understood her appeal.

McNeer

Stella Tennant:

Face + Body = D-

Pedigree = A+

Winner: Amber Valetta Runner up- Kate Moss

Giselle

Cindy Crawford always looked faintly butch and 'hard' to me, even in youth.

Here's the reality: next to no women who are six feet tall have good faces.

l the dogs on Ssense.

Stella Tennant committed suicide, don't bring her into this thread.

r46 How dare you!

Miss Anjelica Huston was certainly not the most beautiful, but she wore the clothes well.

Penelope Tree was one of the more [italic]interesting[/italic] models of the 1960s.

You guys are not getting it. I worked in the fashion industry. Successful runway models are not supposed to be sex kittens. The real professionals are tall gaunt thin no breasts unassuming - even homely - clothes hangers.

The point is the fashion, the clothes, not what's underneath.

[quote] Penelope Tree was one of the more interesting models of the 1960s.

r49 Frightening!

[quote]You guys are not getting it. I worked in the fashion industry. Successful runway models are not supposed to be sex kittens. The real professionals are tall gaunt thin no breasts unassuming - even homely - clothes hangers. The point is the fashion, the clothes, not what's underneath.

No, YOU don't get it. No one said fashion models should have curves like Victoria's Secret models, but the models of the 50s, 60 and 70s were much better looking and more charismatic than today's dour walking clothes hangers. Even today's editorial models are not even all that attractive. Karlie Kloss, don't think she's model much anymore, but she looks like a cross between a giant spider and an alien, the Hadid sisters are boring and smug looking.

Most of the others who do editorial layouts aren't very distinctive. There is one tall Chinese model, Liu Wen, who is very unique and pretty, but I cannot name many of today's fashion models because few make any sort of impact. In my field, advertising, I've always thought it was extremely important to use a distinctive model for specific ad campaigns. Today, brands keep using the same dull handful of models, especially those creepy Hadid sisters. You have to wonder if their family has some really awful dirt on fashion executives, because neither is much of a model. Bella's face was created in a plastic surgeon's operating room.

The nepotism models like Kaia Gerber leave me cold, plus she looks ill. A young woman with such dark circles under her eyes? She's obviously starving.

Years ago, models were more attractive, if not super gorgeous, they had a certain' it' factor, they were charismatic and were more unique. Say what you will about Penelope Tree, but she was a very famous in-demand model, as was Jean Shrimpton. Penelope was a British/American who found fame in the UK and Europe. Her mother was the American socialite and activist, Marietta Peabody Tree. Her parents were against her modeling but Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and David Bailey loved her look and made her a supermodel of that era.

Back then, not only did the same models do fashion magazine editorial layouts and ad campaigns, the same models also did runway. Their look was desirable across the board. Not at all today. For example, Jean Shrimpton was one of the faces of Yardley makeup, she was also frequently featured in VOGUE, in both editorial layouts and on their covers.

Kristen McMenamy's daughter Lily also works as a model

I've always thought Karlie Kloss resembled Ivanka. I guess the Kushner brothers have similar types.

My pick is Kirsten Owen. I always thought there was something offputting about her.

Totally not racist but.....

What in the goddam hell is R23 ? Tyra is frightening and a cunt , worked with her 2005 and she was nasty and has ten foreheads. Cheryl Teigs and Kathy Ireland were homely. Most of runway models are legit FUG but need to not take away from the star of the show, the clothes. Bella is plastic surgery created, FUG before and after. All Celeb spawn and Insta hoes are NOT LEGIT MODELS! KarTrash is not a standard for beauty and the “model” one KenDULL is there because of her family show and pimp mama Kris’s outshines!

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I think 90s Tyra was pretty but she's definitely a cunt and there's so many horror stories about her attitude and you saw her attitude on ANTM and her talk show. Bitch really tried to make it seem like Naomi Campbell bullied her and made her life miserable. I always thought Cheryl Tiegs and Kathy Ireland were for straight guys to jack off too. Were they ever high fashion?

R52 Kala Gerber and her brother with the hideous face tattoo are 2 of the most bratty and unappealing celeb offspring around. They just reek of snottiness, bad attitude and entitlement in every photo I see of them. Crawford and Rande clearly did something wrong.

Tyra Banks shouldn't even be on the fashion model list, because she was never an actual high fashion model. To begin with, her tits are fake and she eventually got a nose job. I don't recall Tyra ever doing editorial layouts.

Neither were Cheryl Tiegs and Kathy Ireland ever considered high fashion models. They were both known for their swimsuit modeling.

IIRC, Cheryl started as a catalog model.

Kirsten Owen looks trans, what an ugly woman.

Yeah, Tyra is definitely not high fashion. I think she only walked runways for a brief time as a teen (which she exaggerates her fame). She did gain weight and had plastic surgery as well. She was smart though to go into commercial modeling and pursue Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated very early on. And straight men definitely found her hot in the 90s and 2000s. But she was never close to Naomi or Cindy or Linda level on stardom, no matter how much she lies to herself.

I always thought Karolina Kurkova looked horsey

Kate Moss

I agree, R64. She also has the distinction of having an almost non-existent belly button.

R66 WTF? Reminds me of Kyle XY. Is she a clone?

Overrated Victoria’s Secret model Izabel Goulart: hard face and sinewy desiccated body, like beef jerky.

R67: According to the internet, as a child she had an operation to fix an umbilical hernia, which distorted the appearance of her belly button.

Doesn’t matter, though. A regular-looking belly button wouldn’t improve the horsiness of that face.

How tall is Lily Cole or how short is Riz Ahmed? This was taken in 2009 at the Berlin premiere of their film, "Rage".

This photo is hilarious!

^ Grotesque

Izabel Goulart, yet another model who looks trans.

I wonder, do those types of hard masculine faces and hard sinewy bodies actually help sell VS underwear to straight women?

Cruz Beckham

Cara Delevigne

R72, I agree that so many of the Victoria's Secret models look really hard.

[quote]Grotesque

I don't think Lily and Riz look grotesque, I think Riz is simply very short, think he's about 5'6", which makes Lily seem much taller than her height of 5'10". Plus, she's wearing heels in that photo.

They look quite funny and, no, they were never a couple. Lily's husband is a businessman named Kwame Ferreira. Lily has been married to this man for years, yet claims she's "queer". Lily is yet another nutty attention seeker.

Lily and Kwame.

Cruz Beckham and his fug siblings are not models and neither is his anorexic sour faced mother a fashion designer.

List some real models.

R70 That woman obviously spent her formative years in the rice paddies astride a water buffalo.

Veruschka

r56 Alec Wek some mean ugly.

Melanie Gaydos

Lily Cole

[quote] Melanie Gaydos

r81 Damn. All due respect to the model, but it's as if ugliness is the aesthetic.

Is Melanie Gaydos suffering from some illness? If so, she is being exploited more than the average model.

Yikes at R76. Looks like she smells a fart.

Kudos to Lily though...she did a degree at Cambridge.

R76, John Travolta was married to a woman for years and he's queer. What's your point?

Kate Moss and I never liked Linda Evaginalista's nose.

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^ Is that Ypir?

R88, what don't you like about Linda Evangelista's nose?

R84, yes, she was born with ectodermal dysplasia. Several of the editorial shoots she's done are a bit disturbing.

Too bony R91.

Kate Miss and her special spawn.

Miss Kate Moss

Lucas Machado (and he gets injections to his face to improve his looks, so this is 'after'.)

Joan Smalls and Chanel Iman are beautiful models.Not exactly top girls anymore, I guess.

r84 r92 I'd Melanie Gaydos does have an aesthetic beauty. Some of those shots are fabulous. Other are disturbing. But frankly she is probably the most important woman who has ever walked a runway. She makes me glad I live in this gay world.

Models are blank canvases upon which to present clothes and makeup.

Sandra Bernard. Not attractive at all!

Melanie Gaydos would have been a perfect subject for Diane Arbus, Charles Gatewood and Joel-Peter Witkin.

[quote]Sandra Bernard. Not attractive at all!

Again, NOT a model. Sandra is known as a comedian and an actress. She's never been known as a fashion model.

A comedian and an actress posing for a few fashion spreads doesn't make them a model.

[quote]Models are blank canvases upon which to present clothes and makeup.

Not true at all, especially the gorgeous easily recognizable models who are used for major brand ad campaigns. You know little about modeling. Runway models can be clones, but not the types of fashion models used for major ad campaigns and editorial fashion layouts.

Models are used to sell something the public thinks is fabulous, things they desire, such as an expensive perfume or a makeup line. The fantasy is about the women looking at the ads thinking they too can be as desirable and sophisticated as the models they are looking at in those ads as well as fashion magazine editorials.

Models for important ad campaigns are especially chosen for their 'it' factor and their desirability, not to be any sort of blank canvas.

What women and gay men think is the desirable female form is not the same as what straight men or lesbians think. I noticed female and gay artists prefer tall, elongated women with sharp cheekbones, wide set almond eyes and thin features like a long nose and wide lips. Straight male artists prefer shorter women with big eyes, small noses and full lips and big breasts, wide hips and small feet.

Since fashion targets straight women most of all it panders to what women find appealing. So the elongated powerful looking diva with an icy stare is what they'll push. It isn't the ideal to straight men but straight men are not buying these fashion brands, so their opinion is moot.

Straight men probably prefer the bodies of Victoria's Secret and the SI Swimsuit models, on the other hand, most of those models don't pose for high fashion ads and fashion magazines. A completely different body type is required for high fashion.

I've noticed straight men sometimes don't even care about a woman's face, as long as she has a 'hot' body.

Super models such as Linda E and Naomi C changed things in high fashion, while still tall and slim, they also had curves. However, their main selling point, their faces.

Naomi had straight male admirers. She was the perfect balance and appealed to both demographics.

Kate Upton, Tyra Banks, Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley and Kathy Ireland were for straight men to jack off over. All of them are conventionally pretty and attractive. Just not in a high fashion way. Men don't care for high fashion models usually, only women and gays. And only really Tom Brady and Leonardo DiCaprio thought Gisele Bundchen with her hatchet face was hot.

[quote] Not true at all, especially the gorgeous easily recognizable models who are used for major brand ad campaigns. You know little about modeling. Runway models can be clones, but not the types of fashion models used for major ad campaigns and editorial fashion layouts.

r103 Apples & Oranges. You're referring to actors who appear in commercial ads for everything from soda pop to fast food joints.

This thread is about fashion models. New designs are introduced at runway shows. This is what moves the fashion industry, not some hot blonde eating a Big Mac.

Yes, fashion models are blank canvases, cold and austere. Haute class! We're not talking about selling junk food to 10-year-olds.

A select few models who walked the runway and had magazine covers - also landed multi million dollar BIG beauty contracts. That's a supermodel and none of them were ugly. And few of them were generic either.

So many of the models posted here ARE ugly or unattractive. None of us are so stupid not to understand that the fashion industry likes freaks. But it celebrates beauty more. Always.

Most famous models fall in between. Gia Garagemi looked like a Sears Catalogue model. Meh.

I agree on Gia. Never got the hype.

[quote]You're referring to actors who appear in commercial ads for everything from soda pop to fast food joints. This thread is about fashion models. New designs are introduced at runway shows. This is what moves the fashion industry, not some hot blonde eating a Big Mac. Yes, fashion models are blank canvases, cold and austere. Haute class! We're not talking about selling junk food to 10-year-olds.

WTF are you going on about?

You must be referring to today's bland faceless runway models. I'm talking about the eras when the general public could easily recognize fashion models. That certainly did happen in the 1960s, 70s, 80 and 90s. Models such as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Marisa Berenson, right on to the Supermodels of the 1980s to 1990s. Even earlier, people knew who the gorgeous Suzi Parker was!

Do you who Dovima was? Dovima's iconic 1955 photo, posing with elephants dressed in a Dior gown, was taken by Avedon, this photo is in the MOMA.

How sad you are this clueless. Dear, you are not teaching me anything, I work in advertising, in fashion and music. I know the history of the fields I work in.

Why the fuck are you going on about actors modeling for fashion brands?! Who mentioned celebrities?! Yes, that happens TODAY, celebrities are used in print ads and in fashion magazines, but this thread isn't about them. It's about most fashion models being recognizable, if not these days, but in the past. Today we have nepotism models, such as the Hadid sisters, Kai Gerber and Kendal Jenner.

In the past, celebs rarely were the face of fashion brands. Again, you don't know WTF you are talking about.

Do you even know what a 'fit' model is? They are as faceless as most of today's runway models. They are un-known models fashion designers use to size their clothing.

You need to do some deep research before lecturing anyone about the world of fashion models.

Andrej Pejić (who is now Andreja) looks like a cross between Kristen Stewart and Cara Delevingne

IMO one of the ugliest is that former wife of David Walliams, Lara Stone. She is just foul.

I second Giselle Bundchen...never got her appeal, she has a very harsh, masculine face. Maybe not ugly but certainly not beautiful or even pretty.

Gia GARANGI was gorgeous. Idk wtf you are all on about.

Kamala Harris' stepdaughter.

No I'm not a repug or deplorable or Boris, I'm just not vision impaired.

Uma Thurman. How was she ever a fashion model?

Channing Tatum. How was this guy ever a model?

Chrissy Teigen

[quote] Channing Tatum. How was this guy ever a model?

Because he had a body that garments draped perfectly on. The same reason all models are models. I've always thought that unless someone is hideously ugly most anyone can be a model if they've got the body for it and can learn how to pose.

I still find it hard to believe that Norman Reedus used to be a model. But then he was passably attractive in his youth.

When was Uma Thurman ever considered a fashion model?

Even DJ Qualls was a Prada model in his early years. And he has never been passably attractive.

Norman Reed's son, Mingus, with model Helen Christensen, is now a model.

R124 didn't he have some weird incident in NYC a few years back?

[quote]I've always thought Linda Evangelista is butt-ugly.

She’s certainly not ugly. Quirky features, yes.

[quote]Travis Fimmel was a model in the early 2000s, here he is with horse face Jizzelle.

Kooky artist Matthew Barney was a model. He said modeling helped him pay for his art projects.

R122, Uma was a teen model. She appeared on the cover of British Vogue a few times.

However, Uma was never as chic or prolific as her mother, Nena von Schlebrügge.

Alec Wek, Gisele, Kate Moss.

R130 chic yes but definitely not pretty.

Uma Thurman and her brother resemble their father.

Her mom was very attractive. Uma has her mom's eyes, that's about it.

Gina Garagemi was homely and hairy in real life.She looked like a more masculine Ernest Borgnine.

Trolls, sigh, ALWAYS ruining every thread.

Anyone with 👀 👁's know Gia CARANGI wasn't homely.

Just STFU you tiresome repetitious unfunny troll.

R133 that’s a beautiful picture but I wouldn’t have even guessed that was the same person .