# Famous people you don't find attractive, but everyone else does? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734 "2008-01-23T23:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/41 "2008-01-24T03:27:08Z")
Uma Thurman… ew ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/42 "2008-01-24T03:32:28Z")
Mischa Barton - I’ve got nothing against her personally, but apparently she’s on the cover of Maxim this month and I have never found her very attractive. Angelina Jolie is an interesting case - I don’t know if I find her attractive or not. I just know she infuriates me for some reason and I don’t really know why. Good actress, rockin’ body, but she’s not one of those people I look at and think, “man, i’ve got to have her.” ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/43 "2008-01-24T04:20:54Z")
Most celebrities fall into the “highly overrated” category for me, but most of them are at least decent-looking. Except Angelina Jolie. She’s what you’d get if you took a moderately attractive woman to the carnival, had her caricature done, then magically granted that caricature life. Freakish and disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/44 "2008-01-24T04:26:03Z")
Tom Cruise for sure. When I was a kid he was young and nobody knew he was crazy and even then I couldn’t figure out what was supposed to be good looking about him. Before he was crazy he was really bland so you can’t even chalk it up to some kind of style or presence. Just about anyone else you can name who I personally find ugly but is widely considered attractive, I can figure out why if I open up my mind. Not with Tom Cruise. I think people with a crush on Tom Cruise are all victims of some kind of government experiment, or else they are lying. Edited to add that I don’t know WHY they are telling this lie but somehow Oprah is involved so that’s scary. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/45 "2008-01-24T04:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] Do you find [this](http://www.psxextreme.com/wallpapers/ps3/jessica_alba_01.jpg) to be unattractive? If it’s personality or intelligence that turns you off I can get that, but physically? Really? [/QUOTE] We’re not talking about “sexy” or “hot”, but attractive. Which to me means looks. In the picture you link to, she may be sexy, but she is not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/46 "2008-01-24T04:28:48Z")
I’ll second Pamela Anderson. She looked awesome when she first appeared in Playboy, but since then … bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/47 "2008-01-24T04:39:43Z")
[QUOTE=Charger] Britney Spears, even in her sane days. She always had an odd looking face. Plus, she looks kind of like my cousin. Celebrities who look like relatives never strike me as attractive. Pamela Anderson. She looks like plastic, meticulously crafted into whore-shape. Her eyebrows, if there are any left, are way over-plucked. She \*could \* look okay, maybe, if she didn’t whore it up. She usually looks like she applied lipstick with a paint gun. Sarah Jessica Parker is the default answer to this question. Law should require the mention of her name whenever a sentence starts with “Famous people you don’t find attractive…” She looks like Screech. Cher. The reason drag queens line up to impersonate her is not because she’s a diva, it is because she is a relatively easy impersonation for those with a Y chromosome. Jessica Simpson. Her profile aligns perfectly with that of Marlon Brando. They shared a nose. [/QUOTE] I think we share the same brain. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/48 "2008-01-24T04:48:57Z")
Brad Pitt yet again. I’ve never understood the appeal of this guy. Also, Keanu Reeves just doesn’t do it for me. I consider him to be maybe a 6 on the looks scale. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/49 "2008-01-24T04:50:07Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] A conversation from a couple of years ago: Friend: “Why don’t you like _Sex In The City_?” Me: “The premise is completely flawed from the start – if you’re going to have a show revolving around a woman and her sex life, why in the world would cast the ugliest fucking skankbag Hollywood ever shit out in the lead role?” Not big on Sarah Jessica Parker’s looks, nosiree… [/QUOTE] It’s simple really. She has to be attractive enough to actually have guys want to bang her (which she is) but not so attractive that women won’t relate to her or that it would be unbelievable that she wouldn’t be able to find a guy. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/50 "2008-01-24T05:04:08Z")
First to mention Owen Wilson? That nose. Simply odd. ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/51 "2008-01-24T05:17:27Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Justin TImberlake. The guy looks weird. He reminds me of a raison. [/QUOTE] Totally agree with this one. The thing that annoys me about him is that (to me) he actually thinks he is hot. All of the guys that I don’t find hot have weird noses, including JT. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/52 "2008-01-24T06:15:28Z")
I assume **Paris Hilton** hasn’t been mentioned more often because she doesn’t meet the “everybody else does” condition anymore? ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/53 "2008-01-24T06:38:51Z")
My big “WTF?” moments are Tom Cruise, Justin Timberlake, Owen (and Luke, for that matter) Wilson… when they’re brought up as the “definitive hotties” at work and amongst friends, I can’t help but want to throw up. And having spent some time browsing trashy magazines lately, all I can say is… Zac Efron is PRETTY DAMN UNATTRACTIVE. No, really. What the hell is the deal with his face? Johnny Depp used to be mildly cute. Used to be. A less popular one I’ve heard is Will Ferrell – to be honest, I don’t find him the least bit funny, or the tiniest bit attractive. For comparison sake, my hot list includes the likes of Hayden Christensen, Shia LaBeouf, Pete Wentz, and the oh-so-dreamy Jimmy Fallon. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/54 "2008-01-24T06:43:01Z")
Much of Uma Thurman is not attractive to me…her face, arms, legs are pretty scary to me. Her upper torso is nice though. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/55 "2008-01-24T07:19:03Z")
Pete Wentz. Not just unattractive, he’s obnoxious with the stupid faces he makes. Jessica Biel. Nice body, fug face. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/56 "2008-01-24T07:20:12Z")
Juliette Lewis > **[Juliette Lewis | Actress, Director, Producer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000496/)** > > Known for: Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, August: Osage County I have never understood the appeal. She’s wierd lookin’ AND a bad actress. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/57 "2008-01-24T07:29:52Z")
Juliette Lewis’s appeal is that she’s the tramp that you secretly want to sleep with but would never admit to it. I don’t think Lucy Liu is pretty at all, and it annoys me that she’s basically the only big-name Asian actress in the movies. She has a nice body but I’m more of a face guy, and I think her face is average at best. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/58 "2008-01-24T08:30:08Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] First to mention Owen Wilson? [/QUOTE] Has the phrase “Owen Wilson is hot!” ever come out of a woman’s mouth? People drool over his brother, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone say he’s hot. Or Adam Sandler, Will Ferrel, Ben Stiller, Denis Leary… most comedians just aren’t known for being lookers. Except Stephen Lynch. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/59 "2008-01-24T08:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] Or Adam Sandler, Will Ferrel, Ben Stiller, Denis Leary… most comedians just aren’t known for being lookers. [/QUOTE] Say that to the girls at every Dane Cook show I’ve seen. Maybe Owen Wilson isn’t “hot”, but I’ve known more than a handful of women who find him attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/60 "2008-01-24T08:42:03Z")
Sarah Michelle Gellar. All the geeks go ga-ga over her, but let’s face it: you pass women better looking than she on the street twenty times a day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734.md?page=4)