# Celebrities you find strangely attractive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433 "2011-02-24T08:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/21 "2011-02-24T15:15:58Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > …Carey Mulligan…on this magazine cover. She’s flat as a board… That particular shot minimizes the appearance of her bust, which while not large is a [bit](http://www.pitaara.in/wp-content/uploads/carey.jpg) [beyond](http://mos.totalfilm.com/images/c/carey-mulligan-630-75.jpg) [flat](http://cinemaelectronica.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/carey_mulligan_and_dominic_cooper_an_education_movie_image2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/22 "2011-02-24T15:29:27Z")
I think a better description for this thread would be “celebrities that are not conventionally attractive, but you are attracted to them anyway”. Some people just don’t fit the idea of what most people think is attractive, yet for some people, the large nose or mixture of odd features just “works”. I think Tilda Swinton is a good example. Her basic features are not what many would find attractive on a woman, and she would probably be low on most peoples list of attractiveness, but many, myself included, fine her attractive anyway. I, too, find Joan Cusack oddly attractive, and have gotten many a strange look from my friends when I mention this. But Enya? Does any substantial amount of people truly think her unattractive? She is a gorgeous woman, and has possibly the most beautiful eyes in the world. Ah, taste is so objective. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/23 "2011-02-24T15:48:43Z")
[Maura Tierney](http://cdn.babble.com/famecrawler/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/maura_tierney-pic1.jpg). She’s actually rather plain, but she always looks good. Not super-hot, but wholesome and attractive. Also, a very talented character actor. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/24 "2011-02-24T16:29:56Z")
This topic comes up semi-regularly, and I’m always surprised at how many people name conventionally beautiful women. The name I’ve offered myself is Mary Woronov (“Eating Raoul,” “Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills”) … because in every movie I’ve seen her in, I’ve alternated between thinking “That is the most amazingly beautiful woman I’ve ever seen” and thinking, “What the… she’s HIDEOUS!” THAT seems like the very definiton of “strangely” attractive. At any given moment, I may find her breathtakingly beautiful or absolutely repulsive- in the SAME movie! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/25 "2011-02-24T16:55:23Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > I’ve always found myself drawn to Jessica Alba, I don’t know what it is. Her knees are a little too sharp and she’s about 3 cm taller than fits her body shape but for some reason she really does it for me. > > Another one that’s kinda strange (I hope nobody makes fun of me for this!) is Jennifer Connelly. _Her_ knees aren’t sharp, thank God, but her eyebrows are a shade too dark and this one time I saw her in an interview and she had a couple flyaway hairs. Despite that I find myself attracted to her, it’s weird. Beat me to it, ya bastard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/26 "2011-02-24T17:16:58Z")
I cannot explain why i find Kathy Bates so attractive, It may be some earth mother thing. [Kathy Bates - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000870/) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/27 "2011-02-24T17:17:49Z")
The lady in [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lel3swo4RMc) commercial. Good grief, when the commercial opens she looks like [Diedrich Bader](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/diedrich-bader-2009-los-angeles-film-1UdFaJ.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.exposay.com/diedrich-bader-2009-los-angeles-film-festivals-opening-night-premiere-of-paper-man---arrivals/p/30750/4/&h=620&w=414&sz=50&tbnid=k6qx4_9RGnjGYM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddiedrich%2Bbader&zoom=1&q=diedrich+bader&hl=en&usg=__E1ZpXgPwW5ajSV_6Ce2Kvy2q764=&sa=X&ei=AJJmTePtMpK8sAPFx-WmBA&ved=0CDsQ9QEwBw). I think that’s what weireds me out the most. But later in the commercial she just sort of looks like a somewhat kooky-but-cute person. OK, she’s not a celebrity but I think I still got the theme thing right. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/28 "2011-02-24T17:55:31Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > [Maura Tierney](http://cdn.babble.com/famecrawler/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/maura_tierney-pic1.jpg). She’s actually rather plain, but she always looks good. Not super-hot, but wholesome and attractive. Also, a very talented character actor. The thing about Tierney is that yes, she is gorgeous. However, she always looks so sad. Sad in her shows, sad in real life. BUT! I really dig that in a woman. So yes, she’s beautiful, but there is something about her that turns most people off, but that particular thing turns me on. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/29 "2011-02-24T18:17:56Z")
[Giovanni Ribisi](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000610/). ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/30 "2011-02-24T18:31:47Z")
Martha Plimpton. She’s not going to get put on the cover of a fashion magazine even as a quirky choice, but she has a vibe about her (which says, to me, “I am more fun than you should be allowed to have.”) I’ve actually met her, and it works in person as well. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/31 "2011-02-24T18:38:26Z")
[Amy Sedaris](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1246&bih=753&q=amy+sedaris&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&safe=active). ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/32 "2011-02-24T18:54:00Z")
In _Annie Hall_, I find that shot of Shelley Duvall in bed, wearing a camisole, smoking a cigarette, really erotic. Apart from that, she’s one of the most unattractive actresses ever. (Maybe she wasn’t smoking – maybe that was Diane Keaton. But it’s definitely SD and not DK that I find attractive in that film.) ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/33 "2011-02-24T19:25:06Z")
[Illeana Douglas](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001152/) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/34 "2011-02-24T20:19:38Z")
> [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > Uh… Willem Dafoe. Cannot be explained. Yeah. Except in “Wild at Heart” Shudder! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/35 "2011-02-24T20:21:41Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > Beat me to it, ya bastard. 😉 And here’s the sad thing: because of the way these threads go…I believed it for a minute or two. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/36 "2011-02-24T20:25:47Z")
**Howard Stern**. Find him thoroughly unfunny and lame, but I LOVE the nose, the bone structure, the thin, the height, the hands, the hair… my kinda yum. Plus the voice. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/37 "2011-02-24T20:39:46Z")
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Steve Jobs – what can I say? I love a man with a brain. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/38 "2011-02-24T20:50:53Z")
[Suzi Barrett](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1440&bih=639&q=suzi+barrett&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g7g-s1g2&aql=&oq=), whom you may have seen in a Metamucil commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/39 "2011-02-24T20:54:33Z")
I know I’m far from the only one who finds Keira Knightly hot, and that such a view is hardly controversial. But I’m not sure why. It’s certainly not her figure, and her face, while nice, isn’t nice enough to completely account for the attraction (I can name plenty of other celebrities with better faces but who are less attractive overall). Best I can figure is that it’s something in the way she moves, since still pictures don’t generally seem to do her justice. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/40 "2011-02-24T20:58:31Z")
Grace Jones. I can’t call her pretty, but DAMN, I bet she can shag! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433.md?page=3)