# birth defect 90210? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 11, 2000, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758 "2000-09-11T11:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/1 "2000-09-11T11:50:41Z")
okay. **Why** is Shannen Doherty (of 90210 fame, of course) possessed of the most uneven pair of eyes i have ever seen? I’ve wondered about this for a long time, but until i saw a rerun of her hosting SNL i didn’t care enough to think about it much. but she was holding her head tilted the whole time to avoid looking at the camera straight on. but it’s unmistakable: one eye is about an inch higher on her face than the other one, and it’s also significantly farther from her nose and closer to her ear. **Why??** and how can anyone watching her fail to notice this? noticing this, how can they fail to be constantly irked by it? being irked, how can they stomach the shows she’s on, given their relative vapidity? (no need to explain the reason anyone watches Charmed, as i believe her initials are A.M.) and how on earth did she get a job on a show ostensibly featuring good-looking people when her face makes me itch? of course, tori spelling is a dog too, but she’s in the fam. but this brings us back to the real question: \*\*Why??[B/] ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/2 "2000-09-11T12:51:48Z")
Sorry, don’t see it. I think Shannen’s very pretty (when she was on 90210, I used to fantasize about her being mean to me). If she has any physical flaw, it would have to be that her teeth are too widely-spaced. Like she’d need a shoestring to floss. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/3 "2000-09-11T13:13:31Z")
I’ve noticed this eyeball discrepancy, too. But it doesn’t bug me a bit. _She_ bugs me, but her face is just fine. ---
**Author:** ![DRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@DRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRS)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/4 "2000-09-11T14:12:55Z")
This is always bugged me since someone pointed it out to me years ago. It’s especially creepy on the rare occasions on 90210 where’s there’s a shot of Brenda in a mirror. Watch the show enough (a weakness, I know), and you get used to seeing her face with one eye higher than the other. See it in a mirror, and the discrepancy is reversed and so looks twice as great. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/5 "2000-09-11T14:27:52Z")
is Tori Spelling ug-GLY!? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/6 "2000-09-11T15:03:23Z")
Is there a General Question here? About some syndrome which Ms. Doherty may or may not have, for example. Because if not, this is too dumb a thread to bother moving. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/7 "2000-09-11T16:02:02Z")
I know a guy at work - the first time I saw him I said “Whoa, his eyeballs don’t line up!” After about a week, I’ve gotten used to it and now I don’t notice it. His are about the same as Shannen D’s, though to be honest I never noticed hers before. “She’s got Picasso eyes…” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/8 "2000-09-11T16:13:38Z")
Maybe its the flaw the makes her hot, ala barbara’s big nose and cindy’s mole…etc. “perfect” women aren’t believable and therefore people look right past them. Take a look at the model Caprice, shes so flawless that I’ve never really known anyone to give her a second thought. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/9 "2000-09-11T16:41:15Z")
Yeah, right, it’s Cindy Crawford’s _imperfection_ that makes her beautiful. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Myndephuquer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/10 "2000-09-11T16:54:29Z")
I did a search on Metacrawler, and came up w/ the image below. Now that you mention it, it is, uh,… [Spooky!!](http://www.supercelebrity.com/cgi-bin/gallery/shan.pl?56.jpg) I wonder if one eye peaks out over the top of her sunglasses? It looks like she’s doing the “Spock” thing her whole eye, and not just the eyebrow. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/11 "2000-09-11T17:17:18Z")
**Manhattan** , you wound me. i guess i don’t have much of a bright future to look forward to in the GQ area, if this is the reception i get on my first thread, eh? but, uh… i think there are actually several general areas of inquiry that can be pursued here. humor me? 1. the ‘syndrome’ thing you bring up. does this happen a lot? like **douglips** ’ coworker. what’s the deal with uneven eyes? 2. the question of who watched 90210, and Shannen in particular, and why. apparently some people think she’s cute. it’s a mystery to me. 3. the more philosophical question of whether slight physical imperfections make women (men too) more or less attractive. personally, i’ve always found cindy’s mole unappealing. as for barbara’s big nose… i’m actually sorta partial to her speech impediment, as in “good evening, this is twentwie-twentwie, and i am bawbwa wawa.” or were we not talking about barbara walters? 4. the tangential question, well phrased by **AWB** , to wit: is Tori Spelling ug-GLY!? although in this case i must admit you’re right **Manhattan** , this ‘question’ does not belong in this forum, as any fool can tell you it’s been empirically established that the answer is ‘yes.’ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/12 "2000-09-11T17:20:05Z")
btw **Myndephuquer** , thanks for the link. it is indeed spooky. =] ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-defect-90210/32758/13 "2000-09-11T17:55:33Z")
barbara streisand actually. believe it or not she used to be a sex symbol.