She's Ugly But They Want You To Believe Otherwise

I refuse to engage in this discussion!

Julia Roberts. I never saw it but someone thought she was sexy.

She wasn't ugly, but do you really believe hotties Holden Snyder, Dusty Donovan and Damian Grimaldi were all besotted with Lily Walsh on "As The World Turns"?

John Krasinski

The hillbillies wanted to humiliate Ned.

R1 So do I!

Giselle, Uma, Anya.

Uma Thurman.

Ned looked the most like a pig—which came in handy during the rape.

Meryl

Elizabeth Moss

Maggie Gyllenhaal - a test audience for that Batman movie she was in broke out in laughter at the line "She is the most beautiful woman in Gotham."

You can always tell fake beauty when the other cast members say how beautiful the person is. If she was, you wouldn't have to say it. Like Delta Burke on "Designing Women"

Gwyneth Paltrow in Iron Man

Bella Hadid

The hillbillies picked Ned because he was weaker.

r12, also in regular audiences. But she was really good in, "The Deuce", and I did believe that she was desirable in that.

In SATC Carrie was referred to as "fabulous" constantly.

They went for Voight's pretty mouth but Reynolds arrowed the guy before those lovely fascist lips could part for the first curdy mouthful of smegma.

R18 it was the fabulous bullshit that grated. While she's not a beauty I can see men wanting to date/sleep with her during the show, she had a great body, blonde and her own apartment. Plus being a sex columnist likely made her appealing to some.

Cynthia actually looked a lot better without the red hair.

I recently re-watched "A Perfect Murder" and Gwyneth actually was v attractive in the 90s.

R12 A friend and I had a similar experience watching "Memento". They kept referring to Jorja Fox (Sara from CSI) as a real beauty and we were like "huh?"

Gwyneth was beautiful in “Sliding Doors” - it’s the non-actor bullshit that makes her fugly.

I still see Russell Crowe as a potato and his voice makes me think he’s hard of hearing and stubborn about it.

Giselle is not ugly. She is not a traditionally pretty woman but she has her own look and a bangin' bid.

Jorja Fox's bone structure somewhat reminds me of Madonna.

Jennifer "Manface" Anniston

R8- She was in that movie with Janeane Garofalo. Uma was supposed to be the stunning one and Janeane the plain one. I never thought she was stunning, beautiful etc. She had a mile long neck and she's generally GAWKY.

Janeane Garofalo in my opinion was far more cute than Uma in The Truth About Cats And Dogs.

I thought so too R25. They tried making Garofalo out to be some dog but she's actually quite pretty.

Kate Hudson

I love the movie Almost Famous, but could never understand all the guys wanting her. She wasn't the least bit pretty.

I think Uma can be stunning or hideous . Her mother was a real looker.

Timothée Chalamet

Uma should have been Oscar nominated for Kill Bill over Diane Keaton

Uma had a very unique screen presence, but I really do not get that whole movement for a brief period in the late 90s/early 2000s to make her to the most stunning woman of all time.

Diane Keaton was in Kill Bill?

Sorry r12 but Maggie has never traded on her looks let alone presented herself as beautiful. She gets work by being a good actor not by being jack off material. She's like Steve Bushami, there because she earned it. I've seen the Batman movies many times and I don't rememer anyone saying that ridiculous line about Rachael. You're a shit cunt.

[quote]The hillbillies wanted to humiliate Ned.

Seemed like they wanted to fuck him.

R33 Stupid cunt. Joker says it to her before he throws her off the building. Yes. You are beautiful. He says.

I agree about Kate Hudson, she’s like a caricature of what SHOULD be pretty, but isn’t. Zooey Kravitz is exactly the same. I think Gay men were able to completely see through this ruse, but not straight men or women for some reason, they have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

Nah, the producers picked Ned, because you can't have Burt Reynolds or Jon Voight getting butt-fucked in a movie 🙄

Ella Emhoff owns this thread

R38

Emhoff keeps getting work she doesn't deserve, but does anyone outside the fashion industry think she's attractive? I've seen many jokes made at the expense of her appearance and especially her fashion sense, but exactly zero compliments.

Ella looked OK not ugly at the Met Gala but the Stella McCartney ensemble was doing the heavy lifting for the impact.

Ugly can look gorgeous if all facial features are perfectly placed, so to speak.

I’ve seen some very ugly people who look stunning, due to this.

OP- Are you talking about Whoppi Dogdoo?

R35 one casually tossed-out line from a 2008 movie? That's all you have? She's not marketed as a beautiful person. You didn't understand the prompt. Hateful little bitch, take your shitty taste in movies and go back to reddit.

Minnie Driver.

You’re beautiful, Blossom!

I think Maggie Gyllenhaal has a very droopy face like a cartoon, but I think it works for her. Uma looks fine to me. She looks pretty. Sarah Jessica Parker looks bad.

Was plain old Minnie Driver ever marketed as a beauty?

Melania Trump

Ivanka Trump

Meghan Markle

Fug hoes the lot of them.

To be fair, OP, Deliverance was not trying to sell the hillbillies as people of impeccable taste.

r24 Jennifer Manniston?

Walter Matthau in Cactus Flower. They needed a handsome lead, no way Hawn and Bergman would've been so in love with him.

Penelope Cruz. Looks like Ringo Starr in a wig.

The inbreds in Deliverance were chubby chasers. It happens

I can't even watch Cactus Flower due to Matthau as leading man.

Walter in Hello Dolly is no treat either.

Barbra.

R47 She resonated with me for this post because yes, I recall her being presented as a beauty back in the day. And there were several "this beauty is still gorgeous today!" articles written more recently. I just recall always thinking.... really? But can't provide the proof that DL apparently requires. I do recall being surprised, in "Good Will Hunting," that the Matt Damon character would be so taken with her, and would have crossed the country to get her back. I understand that conventional beauty is not a prerequisite for love or obsession, but she just struck me as devoid of any charm, charisma, looks, or anything else. So I made the leap to submit this lady to this thread.

R57 I agree with you the character was a total non-entity for me, which is why I was surprised Minnie actually got an Oscar nomination for it, costing Soggy to be overlooked for "The Ice Storm".

*Siggy not Soggy!

Most white women after 50 unless they have money and access to the best skincare.

This is clearly a subdivision of this thread -- because this one is clearly not "ugly" -- but I've always found her beauty completely overrated. Can somebody explain Pattie Boyd to me? I get that she possessed all the swingin' '60s accoutrements, but, looks-wise, she was a very sub-par Jean Shrimpton at best. Marianne Faithfull was WAY hotter and sexier. And yet Boyd is presented (and continues to present herself) as the heartbreaker muse of all time. And I do understand that she won the hearts of George Harrison and Eric Clapton. But... I am underwhelmed!

-Her

R59 lol

Rihanna

R60 many black chicks become fat tanks at this age. Or even much earlier.

[quote]Gwyneth Paltrow in Iron Man

Goop isn't ugly, but she's no raging beauty, either. She's attractive, and I believed Tony Snark would settle down with her. He probably banged a zillion hot babes before, but none who actually stood up to him and were capable of running his empire.

Matthau was not supposed to be a very sexy, desirable man in either Hello Dolly or Cactus Flower. In both of them he was a grumpy wealthy older man. Do any of you have media literacy?

I miss when you had leading men who looked like real people. Now there's just Marvel steroid boys.

R61 Patti had a fashionable look - much like Twiggy or Pamela Des Barres. She wouldn't have been anything majorly special outside of the context of her era (most era specific "beauties" are not).

R68 Absolutely -- as stated. I guess I'm just reacting to all of the books and articles appearing about/by her everywhere these days. She certainly had the "look" -- but she was not nearly as interesting, talented, (or as good-looking) as Shrimpton, Faithfull, or even Twiggy,

R65, you mad. You aren't wrong but even the fatties age much better in the face. And those that keep a healthy physique; flawless.