# Post hideous pictures of beautiful people **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506 "2009-10-28T20:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/41 "2009-10-29T16:45:32Z")
Skald, you might find you enjoy the regular feature “[Fug The Cove](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/fug_the_cover/)r” over at [Go Fug Yourself](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/) which is littered with choice examples. Like [Kate Hudson](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/assets_c/2009/06/katehudsoncleo-thumb-420x543.jpg). ETA: I’ll add that I’d happily look as ‘bad’ as Kate does here but she can look about a million times nicer than this. How bad can the other pics from this shoot have been that THIS made the cover? ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/42 "2009-10-29T16:48:22Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > [Keira Knightly](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/08/fug_the_cover_keira_knightley.html) This is the second or third photo you’ve posted that doesn’t even come close to hideous. Not her best picture? Yes. Hideous? Give me a break. ETA: **5-4-Fighting** has some excellent examples of hideous photos in his/her link. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/43 "2009-10-29T16:54:03Z")
> [@Drygon](#): > > **It looks like some of those are just bad pictures**. Yes, some of the women (especially the older women) don’t look so good without makeup (of course, they still look better than 75% of us will look at their ages). But most of them are absolutely beautiful. Hence the title of the OP: “Post **hideous pictures** of **beautiful people**.” Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/44 "2009-10-29T17:00:20Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > [Keira Knightly](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/08/fug_the_cover_keira_knightley.html) It is downright _scary_ how much she can look like Natalie Portman. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/45 "2009-10-29T17:53:35Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > [Debi Mazar](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2004/08/fugi-mazar.html) We SPECIFICALLY disallowed post-mortem pictures upthread, and that includes vampires. > [@](#): > > [Keira Knightly](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/08/fug_the_cover_keira_knightley.html) Take that back! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/46 "2009-10-29T19:41:58Z")
Yeah, that’s a bad hairdo in that picture of Keira, and she’s wearing too much eye makeup, but I’ve seen a lot worse. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/47 "2009-10-30T07:18:27Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ll begin with this Vogue magazine cover featuring Anne Hathaway. Heh! That’s an interesting choice. I was expecting more of a actors without photoshop sort of thing, but this is a whole other beast. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/48 "2009-10-30T15:18:42Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > and, as she was mentioned upthread, > > [Keira Knightly](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/08/fug_the_cover_keira_knightley.html) That one’s less “Keira looking awful”, and more “Keira, what are you wearing?” Her _face_ looks fine, but that shirt needs to be converted into armchair upholstery. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/49 "2009-10-30T18:15:06Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > [Simon LeBon](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QOA1l_8Fz0Y/SKGhXVfQPtI/AAAAAAAAAow/dmNRP4V9mwI/s400/article-0-023D775E00000578-782_468x513.jpg) In all fairness, no one looks good with thier hand shoved down thier speedos. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/50 "2009-10-30T18:25:42Z")
[Lindsay](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34438) [Lohan](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34171). TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD. :: shudder :: (if you scroll down on each link, there are multiple pics) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/51 "2009-10-30T18:45:12Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > [Topsocialite](http://www.topsocialite.com/celebrities-without-makeup/) Huh. There are some truly atrocious pictures in there, but there are a lot of really cute photos. The catty bitchiness that some of those fashion sites display is sad. Of that list, I think the following look really cute: Anna Kournikova Gisele Bundchen (seriously, how snarky do you have to be to suggest Gisele doesn’t look good?) Halle Berry Jennifer Love Hewitt (friggin’ adorable pic) J-Lo (she may be giving an evil glare to someone off set, but she looks good) Jessica Biel (so she doesn’t have makeup on - oh noes!) Julia Roberts (I’ve seen bad photos of Julia - this is not one of them) Kate Hudson (adorable) Katherine Heigl (hot) Katie Holmes (in fact, the “ugly” picture is better than the “hot” picture) Uma Thurman (hotter there than 100% of the people I’ve seen in real life this entire week) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/52 "2009-10-30T18:52:48Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Huh. There are some truly atrocious pictures in there, but there are a lot of really cute photos. The catty bitchiness that some of those fashion sites display is sad. Of that list, I think the following look really cute: > > Anna Kournikova > Gisele Bundchen (seriously, how snarky do you have to be to suggest Gisele doesn’t look good?) > Halle Berry > Jennifer Love Hewitt (friggin’ adorable pic) > J-Lo (she may be giving an evil glare to someone off set, but she looks good) > Jessica Biel (so she doesn’t have makeup on - oh noes!) > Julia Roberts (I’ve seen bad photos of Julia - this is not one of them) > Kate Hudson (adorable) > Katherine Heigl (hot) > Katie Holmes (in fact, the “ugly” picture is better than the “hot” picture) > Uma Thurman (hotter there than 100% of the people I’ve seen in real life this entire week) I agree. Jennifer Lopez and Julia Roberts both look first-rate here. Some beauties definitely survive the journey off the set. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/53 "2009-10-30T18:53:34Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > [Lindsay](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34438) [Lohan](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34171). TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD. :: shudder :: > (if you scroll down on each link, there are multiple pics) Ordinarily I save this remark for Mellophant chat, but… HOLY ZEUS! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/54 "2009-10-30T19:02:37Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > [Lindsay](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34438) [Lohan](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34171). TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD. :: shudder :: In this case however, it’s a hideous picture of someone who USED to be beautiful. I sat next to Lindsay Lohan and her family on a flight once, when she was 18. She was a legitimately beautiful young woman. Believe me, they weren’t playing tricks with the camera in her early movies; she was actually prettier in person than on screen. She’d have been the most beautiful girl in a randomly chosen group of 100 young women 99 times in a hundred. How someone could have gone that far downhill in five years is just baffling. Well, I guess it’s not all that baffling; booze, cocaine, and meth explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/55 "2009-10-31T00:15:37Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Huh. There are some truly atrocious pictures in there, but there are a lot of really cute photos. The catty bitchiness that some of those fashion sites display is sad. Of that list, I think the following look really cute: > > Anna Kournikova, etc. I agree with all the cute, normal ones you listed. I never agreed with topsocialite that all of the pictures were atrocious and even said I thought some of them were just people shown in normal (non-glamorous) situations. I included the whole site because I just couldn’t figure out how to get the individual links to go to the ones I thought were the worst. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/56 "2009-10-31T00:24:43Z")
Refreshingly, the comments on that “celebs without makeup” page seem to mostly be sane: About half of them are pointing out that most of them are wearing makeup, just less than they would on set, and a lot of them are in the “Oh, so you never have a bad hair day?” vein. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/57 "2009-10-31T01:18:54Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > [Lindsay](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34438) [Lohan](http://www.dlisted.com/node/34171). TWENTY THREE YEARS OLD. :: shudder :: > (if you scroll down on each link, there are multiple pics) Obligatory Kramer-in-his-cigar-smoking-phase reference. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/58 "2009-10-31T01:52:01Z")
How the effin hey do you get forehead creases at her age? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/59 "2009-10-31T03:17:56Z")
Well, if you pass out face first on the sewer gratings enough times… ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506/60 "2009-10-31T03:59:05Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > How the effin hey do you get forehead creases at her age? I have had forehead creases since I was 17! Fair skin + trying to tan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-hideous-pictures-of-beautiful-people/515506.md?page=4)