Actresses whose looks faded fast

Farrah Fawcett, THE pin up girl of the late 1970’s, makes me shudder.

Mary Kate Olsen. Eating disorders will do that.

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.

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.

Well she is very attractive in “The L Word”.

Stacy Haiduk used to be a real stunner. She’s still attractive now, but her looks faded faster than I expected.

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.

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.

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.

Kathleen Turner

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

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.”

I just saw her on Nip/Tuck, and man…she packed on the lbs!

I just saw her on the Emmy Award show, and she looked great. I think she got that bad plastic surgery job fixed.

For about five minutes (for example, in “Grand Hotel,” Joan Crawford was quite attractive.

Christina Applegate looks really cute in the Hanes commercials. I should be so cute.

re: Kathleen Turner

Yeah, she never recovered from “The Man With Two Brains!” :wink:

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?

Elizabeth Taylor at 20:

Elizabeth Taylor at 43:

Cut Liz some slack- the older photo is her playing a non-glamorous role. Even at 50 I thought she was stunning.