# Allegedly "hot" celebrities that are really not as attractive as they are purported to be **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125 "2014-08-08T21:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/141 "2014-08-21T20:12:59Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Not by themselves. The stereotype is men will watch something like SATC with their SOs while women will watch at least part of a football game or some action movie with their SOs for the sake of their relationships. Thank gawd my husband hates sports more than I do. I might watch the last game of the world series, and I used to go to the women’s basketball games when I was in college, because a couple of my friends really liked them, they were free, and I kind of wanted to support women’s sports, even if I didn’t really care about the sport itself. DH hates sports with the fire of 1,000 suns. He won’t even watch tangentially “sport” movies, like _8 Men Out_, or _Breaking Away_ (and we went to IU). The only sports movie he’s seen all the way through is _Cool Runnings_. Unless the martial arts in Jackie Chan movies counts as a sport. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/142 "2014-08-21T20:18:14Z")
Not even _Major League_? It’s unAmerican I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/143 "2014-08-21T20:50:55Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Olivia Wilde. I just don’t get it. [I do.](http://www.superbwallpapers.com/celebrities/olivia-wilde-2228/) The one I don’t get – and you all will probably say, “Oh, no, she’s not considered hot,” but she is, was in the high 30’s (IIRC) on the _Maxim_ Hot 100 list – is **Miley Cyrus**. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/144 "2014-08-21T20:56:09Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Thank gawd my husband hates sports more than I do. I might watch the last game of the world series, and I used to go to the women’s basketball games when I was in college, because a couple of my friends really liked them, they were free, and I kind of wanted to support women’s sports, even if I didn’t really care about the sport itself. DH hates sports with the fire of 1,000 suns. He won’t even watch tangentially “sport” movies, like _8 Men Out_, or _Breaking Away_ (and we went to IU). The only sports movie he’s seen all the way through is _Cool Runnings_. Unless the martial arts in Jackie Chan movies counts as a sport. \*Bull Durham \*is the sports movie for people who don’t like sports movies. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/145 "2014-08-22T00:14:09Z")
I hate to be negative about someone else’s appearance, but I just saw the latest Captain America and while Scarlet Johanson has a lovely figure she’s not conventionally pretty. Not even in a “prettiest girl in third-period Algebra” way. I could see why Cap preferred his [neighbor](http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/71395-emily-vancamps-smooth-hair-captain-america-premiere-get-the-look/1394815053_emily-vancamp-hair-zoom.jpg), though she also would only rate as cute in Algebra. But I went to a high school full of pretty girls. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/146 "2014-08-22T03:19:53Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I think for me it’s a resentfulness that someone plain is cast as a quirky beauty when in reality she’s plain. Like Peter said, “Sarah Jessica Parker is on TV, and she looks like a foot.” She seems like a cool woman to hang out with (OK, my only evidence is Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee) but she is plain. That’s really it in a nutshell. She’s not really ugly at all, but she’s not particularly pretty at all, even by non-Hollywood standards. And yet, for a long time there, Hollywood was holding her up as if she was equally gorgeous as the other really gorgeous actresses at the same time, and it was kind of annoying to a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/147 "2014-08-22T12:43:20Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Julia Roberts is only attractive, and has only ever been attractive, to other women. There’s something about her look that women just adore. I think she has always been very odd-looking. Dunnow, the few people I know who consider her pretty are gay men. The one time I saw something of hers that made me go “wow”, it wasn’t hers (body double for legs, Pretty Woman). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/148 "2014-08-22T12:57:30Z")
Sarah Jessica Parker did turn out to be quite odd-looking as she got older, but I always remember her from the eighties movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun. At the time, I wished I was lucky enough to be as beautiful as she. [Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm177327616/tt0089208?ref_=ttmd_md_pv#) I’ve never seen even a moment of Sex and the City. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/149 "2014-08-22T13:46:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sarah Jessica Parker did turn out to be quite odd-looking as she got older, but I always remember her from the eighties movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun. At the time, I wished I was lucky enough to be as beautiful as she. Wow. I never did a side-by-side comparison. Has she had a nose job? It looks like she might had had a broad nose made smaller by having it narrower, which was a mistake, I think, because it made her face look even longer. Also, she may be a victim of Botox freeze around her mouth and eyes: that’s why her eyes look so small, and she has a tight smile, which also doesn’t help with the narrow face. She looks so serious in the older pictures, and I remember her as being a little hyper, but always fun, and playing characters who were kind. She looks like the ice queen in the most recent photos. Too thin, also, which doesn’t help-- her face needs some subcutaneous fat. And it’s not her age. I know you lose subcutaneous fat with age, but she’s my age, she’s not 60. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/150 "2014-08-22T13:49:33Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sarah Jessica Parker did turn out to be quite odd-looking as she got older, but I always remember her from the eighties movie Girls Just Want To Have Fun. At the time, I wished I was lucky enough to be as beautiful as she. [Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm177327616/tt0089208?ref_=ttmd_md_pv#) I never particularly noticed SJP and whether she was good-looking or not…there was no hype of her being a hottie that made it across to the UK. But some of the pictures people are linking here should really come with a Not Safe For Eyes warning…totally see why people are adding her to this list. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/151 "2014-08-22T15:53:35Z")
Emma Stone Kirsten Dunst Sandra Bullock Kristen Stewart ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/152 "2014-08-22T17:02:21Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Mila Kunis Yeah, she has spent millions on publicity to give her a sexy-hot image. :dubious: What she is is cute and _kinda_ hot. But she’s no Cameron Diaz, etc. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/153 "2014-08-22T17:11:03Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > Plus, it wasn’t her body in The Mask. Huh? Her _singing_ was dubbed, not her body. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/154 "2014-08-22T17:20:32Z")
> [@Namkcalb](#): > > I think many of these people are ugly, only in comparison with the truly beautiful celebrities. > > Take Sarah Jessica Parker for example, she is exceptionally ugly for a leading lady, but if you compare [her](http://prafulla.net/wp-content/sharenreadfiles/2011/02/sarah-jessica-parker-looks-like-a-horse-03.jpg) with the average forty-something woman, you’ll realise she is far more beautiful than average. Here’s the things. Hollywood knows damn well SJP is not sexy. But she is portrayed as Hot so “normal” women can put themselves into her Manolo Blahnik’s. In other words they can figure- "well if I had a $10000 wardrobe, professional make up and maybe justa little “work’ done, I 'd be that hot”. And sometimes they are right. She’s not there for the guys, she’s there for the gals. Just like they picked _Kristen Stewart_ for the Twilight series. Woman can identify with her, to an extent. But I despise her “bunny sneer” trademark look and her rather wooden acting. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/155 "2014-08-22T17:29:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Just like they picked _Kristen Stewart_ for the Twilight series. Woman can identify with her, to an extent. I love that TV show about family togetherness, where the parents are trying to make the kids happy by doing stuff they like (I totally forget the product being advertised, though), and one thing they do is watch a Twilight movie. The father looks close to tears, and screams into a pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/156 "2014-08-22T17:41:27Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > “Emily Ratajkowski” has duck lips, but other than that, she’s pretty hot. You’ll like this video: very NSFW. May not be safe for wives. > > [http://vimeo.com/channels/273815](http://vimeo.com/channels/273815) Ah yes, stunning body but she has Billy Idol’s sneer which is… disturbing. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125/157 "2014-08-23T00:49:10Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Dunnow, the few people I know who consider her pretty are gay men. > [@handsomeharry](#): > > One day I was watching her and it occurred to me that she looked almost exactly like Eric Roberts. Well, there you go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allegedly-hot-celebrities-that-are-really-not-as-attractive-as-they-are-purported-to-be/695125.md?page=7)