# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/81 "2006-09-08T09:30:19Z")
Adrienne Barbeau is 61 and looking a lot better than most women her age. Rachel Ward, 49, ditto. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/82 "2006-09-08T16:29:14Z")
Molly Ringwald; she went from Pretty in Pink in 1986 to Betsy’s Wedding in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/83 "2006-09-08T17:04:29Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Not an actress but Debbie Harry has gone from being absolutely stunning to well…fairly ragged. [/QUOTE] she’s 61 ---
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/84 "2006-09-08T17:08:43Z")
what about the singer and actress Whitney Houston ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/85 "2006-09-08T17:21:07Z")
[QUOTE=The Shroud] **Rachel Ray** …around 2002 I had a crush on her; she looked to be mid-20s, when in fact she was a decade older. She’s still awfully cute, but she’s put on some weight and looks a lot closer to her age. [/QUOTE] I heard her talk about her weight. She is a very small person and weight gain shows up very quick on her. On some of the shows she has done for FN she had to eat _a lot_. She would pork up a bit by the end of the run of shows. It’s hard to tell when some of those shows were done because they replay them over and over. She looks better in some of the newer shows than in the older ones. On such a small person 10 or 15 pounds makes a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/86 "2006-09-09T00:08:49Z")
**[Catherine Bach](http://www.strangecelebrities.com/images/content/11088.jpg)** That country cook’n must have caught up with her. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/87 "2006-09-09T00:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] What, no Tina Louise thus far? [/QUOTE] Dude, she’s like what now? 70? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/88 "2006-09-09T03:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Sooo, basically, either they’re too fat or too thin; and either got too much plastic surgery or not enough? [/QUOTE] Thank you. The only difference between this thread and the other (on actresses who’ve “kept” their good looks) seems to be the quality of their plastic surgery. Any actress over 30 who isn’t planning on starving and botoxing herself in order to snag one of Hollywood’s few roles for “older” women ought to move to England, where casting agents occasionally go for talent over looks (and even then, there are a few crazies who actually believe talent can make a woman sexy-- you know, like with men). ---
**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 9, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/89 "2006-09-09T04:29:38Z")
Just more proof, if proof were needed, that the Brits are a race of shriveled androgynes. After all, we already know that attraction to older women is one of the surest indicators of faggotry. 😉 :rolleyes: 😛🙂😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/90 "2006-09-09T04:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] Molly Ringwald; she went from Pretty in Pink in 1986 to Betsy’s Wedding in 1990. [/QUOTE] She looked really cute in her cameo in _Not Another Teen Movie_ “Fuckin’ teenagers!” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/91 "2006-09-09T04:50:43Z")
**Doug** , since most of the women mentioned in this thread are YOUNGER than me, can I be an old goat instead? Saw a young lady, not an actress, on a show today and she was what would’ve been called “voluptuous” back in the day. I mentioned to Wife that I know guys who would call her fat but I knew what she thought of guys like that: Lacking in manly vigor. And yes, once back then I managed to move my eyes up to her face and Adrienne Barbeau was lovely. And voluptuous, even bordering on statuesque. Plenty to hold onto while she rode you like a rodeo pony. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/92 "2006-09-09T08:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Not an actress but Debbie Harry has gone from being absolutely stunning to well…fairly ragged. [/QUOTE] She was an actress in **Videodrome** , and she’s probably about 73 by now. I’d still do her, though. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/93 "2006-09-09T10:24:24Z")
I’m probably being harsh - but Jill Hennessey went from being so very pretty in “Law & Order” to looking like a bag lady by “Crossing Jordan” mm ---
**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 9, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/94 "2006-09-09T14:49:38Z")
Most people don’t realize Debbie Harry was “old” (35) when Blondie first hit big in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/95 "2006-09-09T17:46:41Z")
Veronica Lake in [1947](http://us.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1395/Mptv/1395/21486_0001.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lake,%20Veronica%20(I)), age 27. Veronica Lake in [1969](http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=3308372&cdi=0), age 46. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/96 "2006-09-09T17:51:26Z")
Whoops, in the first photo she is 24. ---
**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 9, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/97 "2006-09-09T18:28:42Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Veronica Lake in [1947](http://us.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1395/Mptv/1395/21486_0001.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lake,%20Veronica%20(I)), age 27. Veronica Lake in [1969](http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=3308372&cdi=0), age 46. [/QUOTE] Wow, that really is dramatic, she looks much older at 46 in that picture than almost any woman I have ever met. I wonder if she was sick. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/98 "2006-09-09T18:43:23Z")
She was a notorious boozer. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/99 "2006-09-09T19:03:31Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] bag of antlers. [/QUOTE] Oh snap, best description evah. Second would go to an ex-gf of mine who snarkily described my then-secretary as nothing more than “pillows and rope.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770/100 "2006-09-09T19:30:54Z")
Brooke Adams, late Ms. Tony Shaloub: An early shot of [her.](http://folliculaires.free.fr/Z/Brooke%20Adams%20%E0%20Morieux.jpg) A very flattering shot of her [today.](http://www.videomax.ro/Images/actors/1526_a_normal.jpg) If you saw her in the _Monk_ episode “Mr. Monk and the Airplane,” they constantly tried to use a glancing shot of her, nothing full on as she now looks like one of those puppets in _Team America: World Police._ Something has happened to her jaw, deep, deep crevices have appeard just above her jawline making it appear detachable. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-whose-looks-faded-fast/371770.md?page=6)