# 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:** 4
**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, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/61 "2008-01-24T08:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Juliette Lewis’s appeal is that she’s the tramp that you secretly want to sleep with but would never admit to it. [/QUOTE] I seem to remember she looked smoking hot fellating the bad guy’s fingers in the remake of _Cape Fear_. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/62 "2008-01-24T12:12:41Z")
This would be a more interesting thread if everyone posted who they did think was attractive as well as who they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/63 "2008-01-24T12:28:17Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] This would be a more interesting thread if everyone posted who they did think was attractive as well as who they didn’t. [/QUOTE] OK, attactive: [Emmy Rossum.](http://homepage.mac.com/leonardo.ubeda/Phantom/news/images/emmy_28.jpg) Not attractive: Nicole Kidman. Especially when she shows her fluorescent bare legs. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/64 "2008-01-24T12:59:57Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] … most comedians just aren’t known for being lookers. Except Stephen Lynch. [/QUOTE] And [Christopher Titus](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864541/). Dear Og, what a beautiful man. **fatgail** , I’m with ya on Johnny Depp. When he was on 21 Jump Street, I was checking out the Oriental guy. (Okay, and sometimes Peter DeLuise). I don’t know if people really think Bruce Willis is attractive, but the thought that anyone might makes my skin crawl. Everything about him repulses me. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/65 "2008-01-24T13:47:24Z")
Richard Gere reminds me of a proboscis monkey. Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson have always been too pretty-boy bland. Michael Douglas is my eternal pet hate, though. I can just about see what others see in the ones I don’t find attractive, but Michael Douglas? Eeeww. FTR I appreciate the attractiveness of Harrison Ford (especially in Witness) and to an extent Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp, George Clooney and even Nick Cage at times. For personality and sense of humour and despite their looks - Jools Holland, Tony Slattery and Hugh Laurie. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/66 "2008-01-24T14:00:55Z")
Russell Crowe. I just don’t see anything at all handsome about him. StG ---
**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, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/67 "2008-01-24T14:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] This would be a more interesting thread if everyone posted who they did think was attractive as well as who they didn’t. [/QUOTE] Good idea. I don’t find Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson or Michael Douglas attractive, while Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and especially Johnny Depp are smoking. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/68 "2008-01-24T15:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] 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. [/QUOTE] I do have to say that I love SMG in Buffy. And I do think she is attractive. Maybe not the most attractive. But she is attractive IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/69 "2008-01-24T15:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=MonaLizaT] George Clooney, all dressed up, is very nice but I wonder about his sexuality. [/QUOTE] What does sexuality have to do with physical attractiveness? Courtney Cox & Jennifer Aniston both look like unmade beds. Lisa Kudrow was way hotter than the both of them put together. And Daryl Hannah. How did that unmade bed get both Jackson Brown & JFK Jr? ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/70 "2008-01-24T15:54:45Z")
Johnny Depp is the most perfect physical specimen I’ve ever seen. Also hot are Mark Ruffalo, Ralph Fiennes, and Christian Bale. I once heard someone say that Brad Pitt looks like he smells. Now it’s all I think when I see him. Matt Damon has a pig face and I can’t believe he was named Sexiest Man Alive. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/71 "2008-01-24T16:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I’ve always thought Paris Hilton looked like ET. [/QUOTE] Nah, that jip looks like a weasel on a stick. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/72 "2008-01-24T17:00:21Z")
Never understood what people see in Tommy Lee Jones or Jack Nicholson. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/73 "2008-01-24T17:10:50Z")
To be quite honest, a lot of the celebrities I consider “unattractive” are still pretty attractive-- they’d probably stand out in most crowds, and I’d probably crush on someone who resembled one if I met her out dancing or something. Problem is, it’s in the idealized world o’ celebrity that I claim them to be unattractive-- they’re usually starring alongside other actresses who are, per the story, not as attractive, yet who are IRL more attractive. Anyway, that little caveat out of the way, I’ll name one actress who actually breaks the above rule, as I truly find her unattractive: Renee Zellweger. She looks like she’s going into anaphylactic shock. ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/74 "2008-01-24T17:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] 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. [/QUOTE] I’d love to know what streets you’re walking down. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/75 "2008-01-24T17:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] 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. [/QUOTE] Exactly. One article I read (which was bashing her) called her “a woman’s ideal of a sexy woman.” She’s skinny with big boobs relative to her body type, she wears great clothes and shoes and has nice hair…only problem is, she’s fugly. It’s like putting 20" rims and a Bentley hood ornament on a 1993 Yugo. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/76 "2008-01-24T18:07:18Z")
I find so many actresses unattractive simply because they are Hollywood skinny. If I can count ribs, or see a jutting collarbone, it is a turnoff. For example, Kayleigh in Firefly was much better than Kayleigh in Serenity. Never even close to fat, just proportioned like a normal, sexy woman in the series. When canceled, she slimmed down to Hollywood weight and remained there for Serenity. Basically, I can pick any show I watch (as they will all have the “hot chick” somewhere), and be dissatisfied compared to many others because she is too skinny. See _Pushing Daisies_, _Chuck_, and _Sarah Connor Chronicles_ for examples. ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/77 "2008-01-24T18:07:38Z")
Keira Knightley - She looks like a bonobo from Dachau. She always has on a face that looks as if she were making monkey noises, and of course has the body of the sloth victim from Se7en. A while back she was voted in some British paper as the sexiest woman in the UK, which makes me feel extreme sympathy for the English. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/78 "2008-01-24T21:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=Charger] 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. [/QUOTE] This is who I wandered into this thread to dis. Pam is like a walking checklist of my dislikes. Fake boobs? Check. Dyed fake-looking platinum hair? Check. Too much makeup? Check. Plastic surgery victim? Check. Ugly tattoos? Check. Unnaturally proportioned? Check. ---
**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, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/79 "2008-01-24T21:35:50Z")
[QUOTE=The Man In Black] I do have to say that I love SMG in Buffy. And I do think she is attractive. [/QUOTE] Sure, she’s decent-looking. No argument. But like **Student Driver** says, in a world of gorgeous celebrities, she sticks out as not gorgeous. She’s pretty, but she’s average pretty. Nothing special. That’s what people miss. I mean, in this thread we have people saying “eww”, “ugly”, “skank” and worse about people hotter than anyone you’re likely to meet, because they compare them to other celebrities. I honestly see nothing particularly attractive about Kevin Costner, but you won’t hear me saying “eww” or calling him ugly. He’s not ugly. Nor is Sarah Michelle Gellar, she’s just nothing to go ga-ga over, and way too many people do. EDIT: SMG means submachinegun. She’s not that either. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734/80 "2008-01-24T21:36:49Z")
Cindy Crawford – great bod back in the day, but her face looks strange and kind of artificial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-dont-find-attractive-but-everyone-else-does/434734.md?page=5)