# Actresses whose looks faded fast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770 "2006-09-07T11:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/21 "2006-09-07T15:47:52Z")
Farrah Fawcett, THE pin up girl of the late 1970’s, makes me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/22 "2006-09-07T15:54:46Z")
Mary Kate Olsen. Eating disorders will do that. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/23 "2006-09-07T15:57:27Z")
Lindsey Lohan went from hot to looking drugged out and emaciated in the space of like six months. I think SJP and Christina Applegate are both still hot. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/24 "2006-09-07T15:59:54Z")
Phoebe Cates should get some special recognition for this – she went from being incredibly hot to incredibly plain in the space of like three films. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/25 "2006-09-07T16:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Jennifer Beals. The hottest hottie ever to heat up the screen in “Flashdance.” Average looking in “Four Rooms.” Not sure what happened there. [/QUOTE] Well she is very attractive in “The L Word”. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/26 "2006-09-07T16:04:48Z")
Stacy Haiduk used to be a real stunner. She’s still attractive now, but her looks faded faster than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/27 "2006-09-07T16:07:35Z")
If the reality of Natasha Lyonne’s condition are 1/10 as accurate as being reported, she would definitely fit in this category. Not as actress, but Neneh Cherry went from hot to matronly in under ten years. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/28 "2006-09-07T16:16:14Z")
I thought Applegate looked amazing in Anchorman. I thought she looked her age and apparently that means saggy and disgusting to some people. Ouch. SJP was never attractive to me at all… but as time marchs on she looks a bit scarier each time I see her. Lindsay Lohan, I thought was one of the cutest girls in hollywood until she became a bag of antlers. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/29 "2006-09-07T16:32:36Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Lindsey Lohan went from hot to looking drugged out and emaciated in the space of like six months. [/QUOTE] Yep, never have seen her in anything but did see her interviewed last night and recoiled in horror. Her face looked like a drink coaster. Gee, wonder how that happened. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/30 "2006-09-07T16:39:52Z")
Kathleen Turner ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/31 "2006-09-07T16:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=nemminie] Who were very good looking in their early twenties but not any more although they are still under 40. Like Sarah Jessica Parker and Renee Zellweger. [/QUOTE] Weird: I thought SJP looked pretty much the same now as she did in her “Square Pegs” days, and in both cases I thought she looked… well, anyway, she was never my type. Of course, I don’t pay that much attention, so I’ve somehow just missed that she looks different now. Anyone have before/after pictures just laying around somewhere? -Kris ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/32 "2006-09-07T16:43:02Z")
I’ve definitely gotta echo Lindsay Lohan. I watched Mean Girls the other night, and she was gorgeous. Now that she’s become a pathetic victim of cocaine and Rachel Zoe, she’s just depressing. I think that Phoebe Cates still looks exactly the same! And while I’m not fan of Brigitte Bardot, the woman is 137 years old. I’m not sure you could say that she “faded fast.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/33 "2006-09-07T16:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] Kathleen Turner [/QUOTE] I just saw her on Nip/Tuck, and man…she packed on the lbs! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/34 "2006-09-07T16:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Farrah Fawcett, THE pin up girl of the late 1970’s, makes me shudder. [/QUOTE] I just saw her on the Emmy Award show, and she looked great. I think she got that bad plastic surgery job fixed. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/35 "2006-09-07T16:56:44Z")
For about five minutes (for example, in “Grand Hotel,” Joan Crawford was quite attractive. ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/36 "2006-09-07T16:59:23Z")
Christina Applegate looks really cute in the Hanes commercials. I should be so cute. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/37 "2006-09-07T17:08:26Z")
re: Kathleen Turner [QUOTE=Kalhoun] I just saw her on Nip/Tuck, and man…she packed on the lbs! [/QUOTE] Yeah, she never recovered from “The Man With Two Brains!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/38 "2006-09-07T17:13:15Z")
How many of these ladies benefitted from professional makeup and wardrobe and generous lighting and camera angles in one or two films? Then in later films, one or more of those factors was not quite up to snuff. In real life, their looks really didn’t degrade so much. Just a thought. Here’s another: How many of these ladies were originally seen through the eyes of teenage lust? It wasn’t them that aged, it was us? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/39 "2006-09-07T17:28:54Z")
Elizabeth Taylor at 20: > **[Latest Stills - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/gallery/rg1859820288?path=gallery&path_key=0044760)** > > IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Elizabeth Taylor at 43: > **[Latest Stills - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/gallery/rg1859820288?path=gallery&path_key=0074225&seq=8)** > > IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/40 "2006-09-07T17:33:13Z")
Cut Liz some slack- the older photo is her playing a non-glamorous role. Even at 50 I thought she was stunning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=3)