# Butterface girls **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855 "2006-01-13T19:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/101 "2006-01-17T13:33:43Z")
“Butterface” is an amusing term. My half-Colombian wife tells me that in South America, this is referred to as: > [@](#): > > Body like the palm tree, face like the coconut ---
**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:** [January 17, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/102 "2006-01-17T14:42:56Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Would you consider Mary Lynn Rajskub (aka Chloe from 24)? […] I’ve seen pics of her face where sometimes she looks okay and sometimes, uh, NOT okay. Back where I come from we call that “A Real Woman.” I have the feeling she’s probably dee-double-delicious IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/103 "2006-01-17T16:05:49Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Would you consider Mary Lynn Rajskub (aka Chloe from 24)? > She was refered to as “The Mandible” in season three of 24. I believe that “The Mandible” was the Jamey Farrell (was a mole, slit her wrists, died) character in Season 1, and not Chloe. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/104 "2006-01-17T18:54:43Z")
Erica Durance of Smallville. Nice body, but that face…erg…and I believe she’s had work done on her body. Jamie Presley, also a good body/bad face. Also Devon Aoki, also known as Miho from Sin City. I just don’t see the attraction. Milla Jovovich, alongside Franka Potente: probably fun to hang and bang with, but not “classically” beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/105 "2006-01-17T19:37:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Erica Durance of Smallville. Nice body, but that face…erg…and I believe she’s had work done on her body. Ok, are some of you smoking crack? I’ll agree with the rest of your choices, but [Erica Durance](http://t_d_farrin.tripod.com/smallville/cast/frontpage/ericadurance.gif)? Ye gods, man, ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/106 "2006-01-17T19:40:37Z")
\ I could stare at her for hours! Kristen Kreuk, though, is decidedly mediocre in the face department. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/107 "2006-01-17T20:05:34Z")
I’ll agree with Kreuk. She’s a chipmunk. Chloe is my favorite on that show. Her, and that hot teleporter girl. BTW, that picture doesn’t support your argument :p. ---
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/108 "2006-01-17T21:24:05Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > SJP is just downright hideous what with her horse face and beaver tale tits. > > Blech! Radio Ogs Opie and Anthony once descibed her as looking like Ruth Buzzi. Of course I may only have found this really funny because she turned out to be listening and called in to talk about it with them. Personally, I don’t get Matthew Broderick’s taste in women at all. ---
**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/109 "2006-01-18T03:37:13Z")
To me Julia Roberts face was always bizarre enough to trigger the [“uncanny valley creepy”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley). ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/110 "2006-01-18T03:43:11Z")
Other than Kournikova and Sharapova, pretty much every female professional tennis player is a butterface. Except Serena Williams. She’s got the body of a workhorse and the face of an ass. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/111 "2006-01-18T15:28:44Z")
> [@Thalion](#): > > I think that you’re confused. [Tea Leoni](http://members.aye.net/~gharris/blog/tealeoni27.jpg) is in the new Jim Carey movie “Fun with Dick and Jane”. > > “Yours, Mine and Ours” stars [Rene Russo](http://www.glacombe.com/images/grusso2.jpg), and I read the same review. > > Since I don’t know which actress you are insulting, I’ll leave it at that. I would describe Tia Leoni’s face as “cute,” Rene Russo’s as a “classic beauty.” Neither is a butterface IMHO. Then again, Leoni’s kinda skinny. I’ve not seen Russo’s body so I’m not in a position to comment. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/112 "2006-01-18T15:50:12Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > “Butterface” is an amusing term. My half-Colombian wife tells me that in South America, this is referred to as: > > > [@](#): > > > > Body like the palm tree, face like the coconut :dubious: Which one’s the desirable one? ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/113 "2006-01-18T16:23:49Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > “Butterface” is an amusing term. My half-Colombian wife tells me that in South America, this is referred to as: > > > [@](#): > > > > Body like the palm tree, face like the coconut In Brazil we say “Raimunda. Feia de cara, boa de bunda.” It means: “Raimunda. Ugly face, but a good butt.” Anytime you call a woman a “Raimunda” everyone will know what you mean. ---
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/114 "2006-01-20T22:39:12Z")
[Martha Plimpton?](http://www.anyoldactress.com/pictures/marthaplimpton2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855/115 "2006-01-20T22:49:33Z")
> [@baileygrrrl](#): > > [Martha Plimpton?](http://www.anyoldactress.com/pictures/marthaplimpton2.jpg) _looks at the picture briefly…and wonders how they get so good at photoshopping_ my lord…yeah, that’s a butterface she wins and by “win”, i really mean “lose” ye gods…i mean, not to be an objectifying prick or anything, but…if she’s famous…and has talent…she really could stand some plastic surgery [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterface-girls/339855.md?page=5)