# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/41 "2006-09-07T17:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Farrah Fawcett, THE pin up girl of the late 1970’s, makes me shudder. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure that getting 30 years older really counts as “fading fast.” ---
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/42 "2006-09-07T17:41:45Z")
Got to say I think Renee Zelwegger is still an attractive woman. Kathleen Turner did kind of bloat. One actress who in my mind slumped very quickly is Sarah Michelle Geller (Ie Buffy). Some semi recent pictures of her I’ve seen make her look haggard. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/43 "2006-09-07T17:44:57Z")
In defense of Christina Applegate - I’ve seen her around for years. I had known of her before she was Kelly Bundy, and I saw her a few years ago at a charity walk (no make-up, sweaty), and she always looked “cute-normal” to me. She was never “hollywood knockout hot”. It’s a little misleading to compare her now to how she looked as Kelly Bundy. Kelly Bundy was a character, after all. They worked hard to get that look for her (hair, make-up, a little padding here, a little lift there). Look at what they did with Peg Bundy, you don’ think she looked like that in real life, eh? And Christina was playing younger than her age at the time, so the change may appear more drastic now. ---
**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/44 "2006-09-07T17:45:39Z")
Does someone have a recent pix of Lohan? Every one that I look up shows her looking cute. My nomination goes to (Boy am I going to get Shit from my friends for this) Teri Hatcher. When she was in superman she was smoking, the next thing I knew she looked rode hard and put away wet. Just my .02 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/45 "2006-09-07T17:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] I think Barbara Payton holds the top honors for this. [http://crimemagazine.com/03/barbarapayton.htm](http://crimemagazine.com/03/barbarapayton.htm) I’m guessing the picture at the top of that link is circa early 1950s (she was born in 1927, so she’d be around 25ish here). Scroll down to the last picture - caption says it was taken 2 or 3 years before her death. She died in 1967 - aged 39. So she was around 35-37 in that picture. A sad, sad story all around. VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] You win. What a wreck. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/46 "2006-09-07T17:46:50Z")
Sooo, basically, either they’re too fat or too thin; and either got too much plastic surgery or not enough? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/47 "2006-09-07T18:00:07Z")
I’d still do Farrah, but I am a horndog so… ---
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/48 "2006-09-07T18:04:25Z")
Kelly LeBrock was an interesting morph. She was soooo good looking back in her day but seemed rather vanilla and uninteresting. Then she lost her “classical” appeal but, in recent interviews, dang if she doesn’t come across as being a more sarcastic, interesting, intelligent gal. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/49 "2006-09-07T18:12:09Z")
[QUOTE=t-mobileguy] Does someone have a recent pix of Lohan? Every one that I look up shows her looking cute. [/QUOTE] This is a recent [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5142/Events/5142/LindsayLoh_Pimen_10202316_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay) photo. She does look about ten years older than she is. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/50 "2006-09-07T18:18:12Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Sooo, basically, either they’re too fat or too thin; and either got too much plastic surgery or not enough? [/QUOTE] You have apparently just discovered the secrets to the inner workings of a man’s mind. Pretty scary place isn’t it? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/51 "2006-09-07T18:18:29Z")
And sometimes, [they do it to themselves](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/52 "2006-09-07T18:31:42Z")
Has anyone seen Lauren Tewes lately? In the few years that _Love Boat_ was on, she morphed from being cute and innocent into a tough, weather-beaten hag. ---
**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/53 "2006-09-07T18:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=DeadlyAccurate] This is a recent [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5142/Events/5142/LindsayLoh_Pimen_10202316_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay) photo. She does look about ten years older than she is. [/QUOTE] Thanks Deadly but I still think she looks cute in that photo. I was looking for the more > [@](#): > > Her face looks like a drink coaster and > [@](#): > > pathetic victim of cocaine Maybe I’m being to easy on the gal, but I don’t have coked out drink coasters that look like that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/54 "2006-09-07T18:45:03Z")
How about Lara Flynn Boyle? She was seriously cute on Twin Peaks but afterward she starting looking horrible and skeletal. She also started playing very unsympathetic characters. She’s looking healthier lately, fortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/55 "2006-09-07T18:45:19Z")
She’s going Liz Taylor in a big way. I’m not optimistic for her. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/56 "2006-09-07T18:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] She’s going Liz Taylor in a big way. I’m not optimistic for her. [/QUOTE] Lindsay Lohan that is. Lara Flynn Boyle would have to eat her weight in mashed potatoes to wrestle in Liz Taylor’s class. ---
**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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/57 "2006-09-07T18:51:34Z")
t-mobileguy, are you looking for something more like [this](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3216/Events/3216/LindsayLoh_Ausse_5264819_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay)? [This](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3069/Events/3069/LindsayLoh_Grant_4903142_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay)? Maybe [this](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3165/Events/3165/LindsayLoh_Mazur_5153239_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay) one? Granted, she has been looking a bit better lately. These were at the height of The Blonde Horror. Since then she’s gone darker, and appears to have eaten and taken a short nap. ---
**Author:** ![Flea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d78d45/32.png) [@Flea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flea)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/58 "2006-09-07T19:04:07Z")
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Tara Reid. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/59 "2006-09-07T19:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] t-mobileguy, are you looking for something more like [this](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3216/Events/3216/LindsayLoh_Ausse_5264819_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay)? [This](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3069/Events/3069/LindsayLoh_Grant_4903142_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay)? Maybe [this](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3165/Events/3165/LindsayLoh_Mazur_5153239_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lohan,%20Lindsay) one? Granted, she has been looking a bit better lately. These were at the height of The Blonde Horror. Since then she’s gone darker, and appears to have eaten and taken a short nap. [/QUOTE] I must have bad eyes/taste, she still looked pretty in all of your examples. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/60 "2006-09-07T19:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Has anyone seen Lauren Tewes lately? In the few years that _Love Boat_ was on, she morphed from being cute and innocent into a tough, weather-beaten hag. [/QUOTE] She left _The Love Boat_ because of a cocaine problem so it’s not surpriseing her looks went downhill fast. > [@Flea](#): > > I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Tara Reid. Dang it, I was just gonna mention her. She was so cute in [American Pie](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0163651/Ss/0163651/1-7.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Reid,%20Tara) and [Josie and the Pussycats](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0236348/Ss/0236348/653r.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0236348) just a few years ago but [nowdays](http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/05/the_fugs_daught.html)? And how 'bout [this](http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/08/wow_that_was_fa.html)? All that partying really does catch up with you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=4)