A character on some show or game said the secret of celebrities is they're all actually strange looking or oddly ugly in some special way. I've always remembered that.
I work in film and tv, and a big-time director once said to me (off-hand while we were both getting snacks in the office kitchen) "y'know, the most famous actors are short people with oversized heads -- it's just what looks best on camera"
I could be wrong but I remember some study that did an analysis of celebrity faces and most of them fall inside the golden ratio of "average" - as in celebrities are all usually pretty "average" looking ie "conventionally attractive" . Models on the other hand tend to be uhh "unique" looking.
I have to agree. I have a theory that to be truly gorgeous, you have to be viewed as almost ugly by some people (because you look so different). Theres “pretty” (ie that conventionally attractive person who nobody can call “ugly” but their look is also a bit boring and one note). But then there’s “stunning” and “gorgeous” people— these people are conventionally attractive, but also have at least one strange feature or something about their face that’s different and exotic. And people will either see that as ultra beautiful or ugly. These are the most attractive people tho, they stay in our head longer than the cookie cutter “pretty” . And that’s why these people usually become famous.
There’s a certain type of celebrity that has a distinctive (some might call ugly) look combined with a magnetic sort of charisma that makes them hot. I’ve heard people call it ugly hot before. Good examples are Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch. Matt Smith is ugly in pictures but hot in videos.
He reminds me SO MUCH of the old men that would come chat me up when I worked as a bartender at a pub years ago. Old men just soaking up the young bartender (who has no choice) attention.
Cuz he pulled Gwen Stefani which made absolutely no sense. And indie girl and a country boy lol at that shit. He was only named that because he pulled Gwen Stefani and for no other reason.
My mother called him “sexless”. Something about that coming from a 50-something year old sweetheart of a woman just seems even more harsh yet accurate to me
I saw a video of a girl asking her mum about what she thinks of some celebs and when drake’s photo came on, her mum legit just laugh her ass off. I always thought that was funny. I couldn’t find the video but if anyone can help that completes it
I learned about Drake in 8th grade when a friend had a poster of his face, and I thought it was David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends). They are twins to me
He has the 90's/early 2000's teenage girl brows that have been plucked in the middle too much so they're waaay too far apart, except I don't think he plucks his.
As with several not-really-hot men that become sex symbols, I think with these dudes it's less looks that led to adulation, more a certain charisma and the sense they'd be down to do some absolutely filthy things to you.
I NEVER got the Mick Jagger appeal, although one of my favorite things about the early 2010s was when the word "swagger" got big and no one could think of anything to rhyme it with but "Jagger." What a time to be alive.
This is back when musicians could be normal to slightly unattractive as long as they were talented. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. You can be slightly untalented if you’re attractive.
Melania Trump. Chappelle said "she looks like the kind of chick that James Bond would smash but not trust." I disagree. Don't think Bond would do the former either.
Thankyou! I’ve never seen what everyone else sees. Even as a child. All my friends were drooling over him and he just was not attractive to me and still isn’t
I agree, especially when he first started getting really popular. For whatever reason he always seemed kind of stubby and goofy to me. Like if some put a Jack-o-lantern head on a Teddy Gram.
Not only does he have a skeevy aura about him (not even talking about the tattoos - though they look like the lovechild of a Chipotle bag and the New York Times), but dude's got no lips.
Am I the only one who just doesn't see all the oohing and aahing over Jared Leto? He looks like he doesn't bathe and there are all the stories of his "method" acting.
A girl in college said he went from boy to bulldog real quick and I can’t unsee it. Although I think a lot is due to the characters he has often played since The Departed. They were all tough no BS guy or crazy guy until he played the meek scientist in Don’t look up.
For me it’s the social media/TikTok “hot” look. The pouty lips, tight ponytail, bog-standard posing and exaggerated dimensions. It’s all so artificial.
To me just a model and not a very recognizable one until she married John legend. She’s only known for swimsuit modeling she’s never done High Fashion or Couture.
These procedures age everyone, because then women of all ages have the same over-filled features and stretched skin... So the publics eye is confused by the homogeny. Kylie already looks mid- 40's.
I never understood how someone who so obviously became the poster child of plastic surgery of their generation is genuinely considered beautiful. I liked her natural thin lips- not everyone has to have wiener puffy lips to be considered attractive. A youthful face absolutely ruined before 21- so sad. She's already giving uncanny lizard vibes and she's not even 30.
They kardashians have turned into their own race. I know so many girls where the only way to describe them is say “she’s one of those kardashian looking girls” which basically just means cartoonish big lips that could pop at any second, unnaturally huge ass that makes no biological sense, and they are always traveling and with rich ass dudes
If she wasnt a kardashian id feel bad for her because she went wayyyyy too far with the surgeries and just looks unfortunate. I can see the insecurities she must have dealt with (ex having really thin lips whole growing up around other kardashians), but at this point she has become more or less directly responsible (tho not even close to solely responsible) for the insecurities and botched surgeries of SOOOOOOO many men and women
Yep, Nicole Kidman is almost completely unwatchable in movies now. She has no range of emotions with her facial features anymore and she just looks like a beekeeper who’s allergic to bees.
people have definitely developed fetishes for that plastic surgery look that people get. that look where they have the weird cheek bones, tiny eyes, and bloated lips. where they look like human tiger hybrids with giant lips.
If you look at pictures of her when she was like 14 she had a nose that clearly would make it impossible for her to be a model. When she was around 19 or 20 she looked beautiful. Fast forward about 5 or 6 years and she's had massive plastic surgery where her nose is now way too skinny and she looks like an alien. She looks far older than her age it's really sad. It's not because she aged five or six years all the plastic surgery has done way more harm than good.
I agree he’s odd looking and I don’t find him visually attractive- with both him and Adam Driver there seems to be some charisma, some unusual magnetism they both have that draws attention and attraction to them. Maybe they saved a magic fish or rescued an old forest spirit from certain doom-something that granted them unexplainable and unnatural powers of attraction. I usually find myself attracted to people like that in my life- they don’t necessarily catch my eye as conventionally attractive, but something about their personality and (ugh) their energy starts to draw me to them until I find them irresistibly handsome.
I remember in my Chemistry class we would have these stupid but fun discussions and one of them was about celebrities you hate and someone mentioned Pete Davidson and some girls were talking about how he’s “ugly hot”
He has "grade school funny guy, who is tall/masculine enough to not get bullied, and your parent's will hate if you bring him home" vibes which is exactly what a lot of girls are looking for. Also he seems pretty nice, like I have never heard that he's a prick or disrespectful outside of comedic situations.
Fortunately for him, his personality is attractive though. Saw him on the actors round table thing and he came across very well, even in comparison to his peers.
Bella Hadid. Nothing about her stands out in any way to me. She has a plain face and dead looking eyes and I feel like she’s only famous because of her parents like the Kardashians
She was naturally very pretty…but then she got a lot of plastic surgery and has a face that’s indistinguishable from hundreds of Instagram influencers. I’m really baffled by that. Must be a lot of pressure being a celebrity I guess, even if you’re already really good looking.
OK, I wasn't gonna dignify this discussion by getting involved... And I don't even get the discussion - "hot" is a temperature, people!... But, Kevin deserves to lose for what he said...so yes, she's hot - she's hot as heck.
Yup. The film industry as a whole hates her guts. I once watched her force our Transpo team to swap out her trailer TWICE because she “didn’t like the inside.” One of them she complained the sink was too small. Wouldn’t even acknowledge you when you greeted her in passing. Absolute c-word.
Mark Wahlberg; I absolutely refuse to watch any of his movies or anything he’s in. I have no good reason either other than his face and voice bug me that much.
A character on some show or game said the secret of celebrities is they're all actually strange looking or oddly ugly in some special way. I've always remembered that.
I work in film and tv, and a big-time director once said to me (off-hand while we were both getting snacks in the office kitchen) "y'know, the most famous actors are short people with oversized heads -- it's just what looks best on camera"
I could be wrong but I remember some study that did an analysis of celebrity faces and most of them fall inside the golden ratio of "average" - as in celebrities are all usually pretty "average" looking ie "conventionally attractive" . Models on the other hand tend to be uhh "unique" looking.
Case in point is Anna Taylor-Joy from Queens Gambit. Striking and memorable as she is strange looking.
I have to agree. I have a theory that to be truly gorgeous, you have to be viewed as almost ugly by some people (because you look so different). Theres “pretty” (ie that conventionally attractive person who nobody can call “ugly” but their look is also a bit boring and one note). But then there’s “stunning” and “gorgeous” people— these people are conventionally attractive, but also have at least one strange feature or something about their face that’s different and exotic. And people will either see that as ultra beautiful or ugly. These are the most attractive people tho, they stay in our head longer than the cookie cutter “pretty” . And that’s why these people usually become famous.
Explain Brad Pitt
There’s a certain type of celebrity that has a distinctive (some might call ugly) look combined with a magnetic sort of charisma that makes them hot. I’ve heard people call it ugly hot before. Good examples are Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch. Matt Smith is ugly in pictures but hot in videos.
My search history is approaching 30 celebrities because I have no idea who most of these people are
My knowledge of celebrities ended around 1998. Is Claudia Schiffer still insanely hot? Is Leonardo DiCaprio still dating a 19 yo?
Remember when Blake Shelton was named sexiest man alive and literally not a single person agreed.
My favorite twitter response to this was ‘Did everybody die?’
He looks like he'd be a character in the show 7th Heaven.
Someone said he looks like a dad building a bird house in the background of a Viagra commercial. Can’t unsee now.
Blake Shelton is "feed store handsome".
Gwen for sure arranged that whole thing because I can’t think of a single other person that would agree.
He looks like if buffalo chicken wings were a person
I swear People's sexiest man alive must be determined by straight men. Their picks are baffling.
Looks like he smells like summer sausage
He reminds me SO MUCH of the old men that would come chat me up when I worked as a bartender at a pub years ago. Old men just soaking up the young bartender (who has no choice) attention.
He looks like a redneck garbage pale kid.
Cuz he pulled Gwen Stefani which made absolutely no sense. And indie girl and a country boy lol at that shit. He was only named that because he pulled Gwen Stefani and for no other reason.
Drake, I know several women who think he's absolutely gorgeous. Purely on looks he seems completely unremarkable to me.
My mother called him “sexless”. Something about that coming from a 50-something year old sweetheart of a woman just seems even more harsh yet accurate to me
Drake looks like a low polygon npc
I saw a video of a girl asking her mum about what she thinks of some celebs and when drake’s photo came on, her mum legit just laugh her ass off. I always thought that was funny. I couldn’t find the video but if anyone can help that completes it
Skinny DJ Kahlid.
He wasn't even the cutest guy on Degrassi!
Drake.. like why? In what dimension or planet.
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Jimmyyyyyy!!!!
Skinny DJ Khaled that likes kids?
I learned about Drake in 8th grade when a friend had a poster of his face, and I thought it was David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends). They are twins to me
He has the 90's/early 2000's teenage girl brows that have been plucked in the middle too much so they're waaay too far apart, except I don't think he plucks his.
People consider him attractive? 🥴
Mick Jagger. Even when he was young, he looked like a Muppet to me, I just don't get women who drool over him.
Well, those old rockers all look like train wrecks.
Fun fact, Mick Jagger has a son that's younger than his great-grand-daughter.
As with several not-really-hot men that become sex symbols, I think with these dudes it's less looks that led to adulation, more a certain charisma and the sense they'd be down to do some absolutely filthy things to you.
I NEVER got the Mick Jagger appeal, although one of my favorite things about the early 2010s was when the word "swagger" got big and no one could think of anything to rhyme it with but "Jagger." What a time to be alive.
He is sexy ugly. He was never conventionally beautiful.
He was a muppet in the Land of Confusion music video by Genesis.
This is back when musicians could be normal to slightly unattractive as long as they were talented. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. You can be slightly untalented if you’re attractive.
I've always said Rod Stewart is the patron saint of ugly men
That guy who was married to jlo (Marc Anthony)
Which one of them lmao
Doesn’t narrow it down 😂
"Do you have the slighest idea how little that narrows it down?"
Megan Fox's boyfriend... Whats his name...?
MGK looks like a tall 1800s starving newspaper boy
Pistol Pete
Melania Trump. Chappelle said "she looks like the kind of chick that James Bond would smash but not trust." I disagree. Don't think Bond would do the former either.
Chris Brown. Even before the Rihanna thing I never understood why people had the hots for him. After Rihanna? Even uglier
Just in case anyone forgot:
Thankyou! I’ve never seen what everyone else sees. Even as a child. All my friends were drooling over him and he just was not attractive to me and still isn’t
I agree, especially when he first started getting really popular. For whatever reason he always seemed kind of stubby and goofy to me. Like if some put a Jack-o-lantern head on a Teddy Gram.
Orville Redenbacher. Some girls get so hot for him, but I don’t see it.
I mean he is a pop star.
I think there's a kernel of truth there. Sad that some end up being 'old maids'!
Adam Levine. He looks like a thumb with glued on ears and glued on patchy face hair that someone else shaved off first
He looks like a guy who won't stop hitting on you at a club even after you tell him you're not interested.
Adam Levines tattoos look like someone walked into a tattoo parlour and said "give me lots of tattoos".
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someone said once he looked like a thrown away chiptole bag and I've never been able to unsee it.
That is... very descriptive. Yet, I agree
He looks dirty, I just want him to wear more clothes. He doesn't look like he's 5'11", he looks a lot smaller.
Not only does he have a skeevy aura about him (not even talking about the tattoos - though they look like the lovechild of a Chipotle bag and the New York Times), but dude's got no lips.
He'e no Adam DeVine
Is there ever a song by Maroon 5 that is not about Adam Levine singing about how uncontrollably horny he is?
Am I the only one who just doesn't see all the oohing and aahing over Jared Leto? He looks like he doesn't bathe and there are all the stories of his "method" acting.
He looks like one of those cult leaders who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus or something
Agreed, but the teenaged me had a huge crush on Jordan Catalano.
Twenty year old Jared Leto was hot. 50 year old Jared is not.
Russell Off-Brand
He seriously creeps me the fuck out. 🤮
Leonardo DiCaprio was cute and then rapidly aged into Jack Nicholson.
A girl in college said he went from boy to bulldog real quick and I can’t unsee it. Although I think a lot is due to the characters he has often played since The Departed. They were all tough no BS guy or crazy guy until he played the meek scientist in Don’t look up.
He’s a massive alcoholic. It’s done a number on his head and face.
I am glad to, finally, hear someone else says it. The resemblance is uncanny.
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More like Joe Don Baker
For me it’s the social media/TikTok “hot” look. The pouty lips, tight ponytail, bog-standard posing and exaggerated dimensions. It’s all so artificial.
Those TikToks where the girls have the Egirl makeup, have the camera tracked to their faces and do the weird smiles. (Like Belle Delphine)
I once heard the tight ponytail called the “Croydon facelift” and it’s really stuck with me.
I think most celebrities just look like average people. They just have a lot of makeup and money to glam it up everyday.
And have the money to get nutritionists and personal trainers
I think you're right. And they have a team of professionals to apply it
every kardashian, every jenner, bro they got more augmentations than tony starks suit
And don't have nearly as sexy of voices as Jarvis or Friday.
Anyone with fish lips, really. Do not understand the appeal.
beeflips
Chrissy Teigen… she is a super model?
To me just a model and not a very recognizable one until she married John legend. She’s only known for swimsuit modeling she’s never done High Fashion or Couture.
Former supermodel that gets stung by bees in the face every morning
Kylie Jenner. Bitch is about to look like Donatella Versace in about 10 more years. Watch.
Oh and Khloe that doesn’t even look like her original self anymore.
Her whole face looks like a severe allergic reaction.
I’m 22 and always forgot that Kylie is like my age because of how much work she’s had done
These procedures age everyone, because then women of all ages have the same over-filled features and stretched skin... So the publics eye is confused by the homogeny. Kylie already looks mid- 40's.
She already looks hella ageddd
I never understood how someone who so obviously became the poster child of plastic surgery of their generation is genuinely considered beautiful. I liked her natural thin lips- not everyone has to have wiener puffy lips to be considered attractive. A youthful face absolutely ruined before 21- so sad. She's already giving uncanny lizard vibes and she's not even 30.
Kylie looks like Rosie O’Donnell in person.
They kardashians have turned into their own race. I know so many girls where the only way to describe them is say “she’s one of those kardashian looking girls” which basically just means cartoonish big lips that could pop at any second, unnaturally huge ass that makes no biological sense, and they are always traveling and with rich ass dudes
I can’t tell them apart anymore since they’re wearing the same face.
CHANNING TATUM THAT BITCH LOOKS LIKE THE THUMB PEOPLE FROM SPY KIDS
A lot of women always say Channing Tatum is hot and they want a man who looks like him.
He looks like a tree that a wizard made into a human.
He’s got beady eyes that are too close together. He just doesn’t do it for me.
seriously. his face is so… average? chunky? aggressively square? like a human minecraft villager.
He looks like a big toe
He looks like he is dumb.
When I play the Sims, I take everything off of them so I can just start with a clean slate before I add any kind of features.
Chrissy Teigen
It's like she has a lot of separate features that are considered attractive but none of them fit together.
Agree. She looks like she was 3d-rendered in the late 90s.
Completely. Don't get it.
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Face looks like a catcher's mitt.
Her head has a similar shape to the Predator.
She looks like the expensive goldfish at the pet store. I've always thought she was nasty looking.
Her face looks fat and puffy when she’s obviously not fat.
Kim Kardashian I do not get her at all.
None of the Kardashians are pretty. They’re just curated.
I know. Cartoonish tits and ass. Unbelievable so many find her attractive. And that voice … yow!
The Kardashian’s but especially Kylie Jenner
If she wasnt a kardashian id feel bad for her because she went wayyyyy too far with the surgeries and just looks unfortunate. I can see the insecurities she must have dealt with (ex having really thin lips whole growing up around other kardashians), but at this point she has become more or less directly responsible (tho not even close to solely responsible) for the insecurities and botched surgeries of SOOOOOOO many men and women
Gwyneth Paltrow. She looks like some kind of strange bird.
She looks like she wears her disposition on her face. Like if a nicer person inhabited her body, she'd be beautiful
You must be thinking of Dee Reynolds.
Anyone with unnecessary plastic surgery
Yep, Nicole Kidman is almost completely unwatchable in movies now. She has no range of emotions with her facial features anymore and she just looks like a beekeeper who’s allergic to bees.
Megan Fox. My god she was hot in transformers.... Now not so much.
people have definitely developed fetishes for that plastic surgery look that people get. that look where they have the weird cheek bones, tiny eyes, and bloated lips. where they look like human tiger hybrids with giant lips.
I do not know how Bella hadid is the most beautiful woman
She’s embodies uncanny valley and it makes me SUPER uncomfortable.
If you look at pictures of her when she was like 14 she had a nose that clearly would make it impossible for her to be a model. When she was around 19 or 20 she looked beautiful. Fast forward about 5 or 6 years and she's had massive plastic surgery where her nose is now way too skinny and she looks like an alien. She looks far older than her age it's really sad. It's not because she aged five or six years all the plastic surgery has done way more harm than good.
High fashion models are valued for having editorial looks, not being the most universally appealing.
Gwyneth Paltrow. I mean she’s not unattractive but calling her beautiful seems like a stretch.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Kanye. He looks like he's always holding water in his mouth and it pisses him off.
Do people find him attractive?
No one says he is handsome though.
He legit was eating through a tube from a shattered jaw. Might have something to do with his chipmunk cheeks.
Madonna.
Benedict Cumberbatch. He's very odd looking to me.
"Pengwings"
I agree he’s odd looking and I don’t find him visually attractive- with both him and Adam Driver there seems to be some charisma, some unusual magnetism they both have that draws attention and attraction to them. Maybe they saved a magic fish or rescued an old forest spirit from certain doom-something that granted them unexplainable and unnatural powers of attraction. I usually find myself attracted to people like that in my life- they don’t necessarily catch my eye as conventionally attractive, but something about their personality and (ugh) their energy starts to draw me to them until I find them irresistibly handsome.
I think he’s uniquely beautiful, but I’m not attracted to him.
He looks like an alien who attempted to blend into the human race
If you just look at the man, he’s strange (lol pun intended). But it’s his charisma. The man is damn fine when he’s acting. Especially in Sherlock.
Relevant:
The face is super odd but his voice is amazing
only time i find benadryl cucumber patch attractive is as doctor strange. idk why but the goatee makes his face look a lot less weird
Kim Kardashian
John Cena - I just can't see him
Who is Champ?
Pete Davidson
I remember in my Chemistry class we would have these stupid but fun discussions and one of them was about celebrities you hate and someone mentioned Pete Davidson and some girls were talking about how he’s “ugly hot”
Do people really consider him beautiful though? I think he’s just the epitome of “girls like a guy with a sense of humour”
He has "grade school funny guy, who is tall/masculine enough to not get bullied, and your parent's will hate if you bring him home" vibes which is exactly what a lot of girls are looking for. Also he seems pretty nice, like I have never heard that he's a prick or disrespectful outside of comedic situations.
Gwyneth Paltrow is the human version of an unsalted boiled egg.
Chrissy Teigen
Justin Beiber
Adam Driver.
Don't let John Oliver see this reply, lol.
You mean Abraham H. Parnassus?
Dude looks like his supply sergeant's worst nightmare
I heard he has an 8 pack. He is shredded.
Fortunately for him, his personality is attractive though. Saw him on the actors round table thing and he came across very well, even in comparison to his peers.
But he is interesting looking.
Im actually against this opinion since people tend to tell me that i resemble Adam Driver.
I think he's hot because he looks weird lol
People at my cinema actually started laughing when he took his Kylo Ren helmet off.
Bella Hadid. Nothing about her stands out in any way to me. She has a plain face and dead looking eyes and I feel like she’s only famous because of her parents like the Kardashians
Leonardo Dicaprio.
He's cute in the 90s but he didn't aged well
Channing Tatum.
He looks like a human form of Mr. Potato Head
Ariana Grande, She looks like a 12 year old girl broke into their mums room and tried all of her tan and makeup products
She was naturally very pretty…but then she got a lot of plastic surgery and has a face that’s indistinguishable from hundreds of Instagram influencers. I’m really baffled by that. Must be a lot of pressure being a celebrity I guess, even if you’re already really good looking.
Hard to believe she’s 30!
Justin Bieber
He looks like he smells bad
Kylie Jenner
Hilary Swank
She's what they call a "handsome woman"
If you’re saying Hilary Swank isn’t hot then you’re saying that I’m not hot because obviously I’m not as hot as Hilary Swank 😭
OK, I wasn't gonna dignify this discussion by getting involved... And I don't even get the discussion - "hot" is a temperature, people!... But, Kevin deserves to lose for what he said...so yes, she's hot - she's hot as heck.
"Hilary Swank is hot"
Did any work ever actually get done on "The Office"?? Straight up one of the funniest episodes!
Damp, greasy Norman Reedus. Bleh!
Bella Thorne. Looks like she’d have a garbage-y aroma to her
I heard someone on YouTube say that she looks “perpetually sticky” and I can’t unsee it
Gwyneth Paltrow.
Yup. The film industry as a whole hates her guts. I once watched her force our Transpo team to swap out her trailer TWICE because she “didn’t like the inside.” One of them she complained the sink was too small. Wouldn’t even acknowledge you when you greeted her in passing. Absolute c-word.
She's unattractive inside and out.
Mark Wahlberg; I absolutely refuse to watch any of his movies or anything he’s in. I have no good reason either other than his face and voice bug me that much.
If it helps he was a huge piece of shit when he was younger
He always looks like he needs a shower.
Someone understands why I dislike Rebel Wilson