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RecruitmentGuru · 2024-04-25T14:05:09+00:00

Who were as beautiful or if not more beautiful? Why was she considered the most beautiful of them all?

pensione · 26/04/2024 17:34

A Most Beautiful Woman in the World thread is incomplete without Mumsnetters randomly inserting their daughter who ‘literally stops traffic’, amongst the Angelina Jolie and Aishwarya Rais.

Moonflower12 · 26/04/2024 17:14

@Screamingabdabz

My eldest DD is the same. We were walking through town one day. She was wearing a baggy black jumper and leggings and pumps. People ( all ages) were just drawn to look at her, but like you say if you saw a photo, you'd think she was pretty but that's it.
In fact my middle DD is more classically 'beautiful' but it's always eldest DD who gets the looks.

theworldie · 26/04/2024 17:12

Mm definitely had “it” in spades but for pure beauty I’ve always thought Ava Gardner was the most gorgeous actress of that era.

There have been plenty before and after Marilyn Monroe!

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 17:09

Never got Kate Moss’s beauty. She was incredibly slim in the 90s, smoking, drinking, dark circles under her eyes. Her features were flat to me.

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Blueuggboots · 26/04/2024 16:57

(And yes, I know she's dead, which is exactly my point.)

Blueuggboots · 26/04/2024 16:55

@Bignanna, well yes, but we all age and I'm sure Marilyn monroe doesn't look how she did either??!!!

realityhack · 26/04/2024 16:52

Well, I'm equally gobsmacked by your saying that Lila Moss Hack is pretty. She has a face like play doh

I agree with you. I was shocked when I saw her on the catwalk. After the likes of Linda and Naomi and Christy, she is really nothing to look at at all- her face is doughy and weird

MsLuxLisbon · 26/04/2024 16:50

Bignanna · 26/04/2024 16:49

Was, maybe!

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Overrated even in her day imo. Very masculine looking. Christy was the most beautiful of the 90s supermodels.

Bignanna · 26/04/2024 16:49

Blueuggboots · 25/04/2024 15:55

Linda evangelista. She's stunning.

Was, maybe!

MsLuxLisbon · 26/04/2024 16:49

SabreIsMyFave · 26/04/2024 13:48

No, I am not 'having a laugh.' It's my opinion. I find Lottie, Lila, AND Kate all stunning, as a few others on here do. (Lila is VERY pretty!) Just because you disagree does not make me 'wrong.' It's an OPINION!

People rave about Audrey Hepburn. I think she is as plain as an unbuttered slice of toast. Poster above said Sade and Yasmin le Bon are beautiful. Sade is pretty enough. Yasmin le Bon not so much. Looks very masculine to me.

As many posters have said 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' I am still gobsmacked at the (2 or 3) posters saying Fateha from Masterchef is beautiful.

I don't think she is even remotely pretty or attractive. I can't see a single appealing or attractive thing about her, yet (bizarrely) a few posters think she is 'beautiful.'

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Well, I'm equally gobsmacked by your saying that Lila Moss Hack is pretty. She has a face like play doh.

ageratum1 · 26/04/2024 16:40

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

TobaccoFlower · 26/04/2024 16:37

Maria Valverde and Michelle Phillips from the Mamas and Papas. (Google Michelle Philips banana video)

toomanyy · 26/04/2024 16:33

SabreIsMyFave · 26/04/2024 13:48

No, I am not 'having a laugh.' It's my opinion. I find Lottie, Lila, AND Kate all stunning, as a few others on here do. (Lila is VERY pretty!) Just because you disagree does not make me 'wrong.' It's an OPINION!

People rave about Audrey Hepburn. I think she is as plain as an unbuttered slice of toast. Poster above said Sade and Yasmin le Bon are beautiful. Sade is pretty enough. Yasmin le Bon not so much. Looks very masculine to me.

As many posters have said 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' I am still gobsmacked at the (2 or 3) posters saying Fateha from Masterchef is beautiful.

I don't think she is even remotely pretty or attractive. I can't see a single appealing or attractive thing about her, yet (bizarrely) a few posters think she is 'beautiful.'

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I get that Mumsnetters will veer towards white standards of beauty. But to post pictures of a brown Muslim woman in hijab and sneer at people who see beauty in her is a new low.

Inlimboin50s · 26/04/2024 16:31

Gene Tierney who was born in 1920,a classic beauty.

SabreIsMyFave · 26/04/2024 13:48

Jk8 · 26/04/2024 01:49

@SabreIsMyFave Your having a laugh about Kate moss & her daughter, right ?

Kate was always a weird mix of amazing face/below average height size for modelling which made her a perfect side kick for celebrity men who were also hyped up looks wise but lacked stature as she didnt over tower them then got famous for drugs....

Her daughter & sister for that matter is just completely average & wouldnt get a look in if not for her success & professionalism

No, I am not 'having a laugh.' It's my opinion. I find Lottie, Lila, AND Kate all stunning, as a few others on here do. (Lila is VERY pretty!) Just because you disagree does not make me 'wrong.' It's an OPINION!

People rave about Audrey Hepburn. I think she is as plain as an unbuttered slice of toast. Poster above said Sade and Yasmin le Bon are beautiful. Sade is pretty enough. Yasmin le Bon not so much. Looks very masculine to me.

As many posters have said 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' I am still gobsmacked at the (2 or 3) posters saying Fateha from Masterchef is beautiful.

I don't think she is even remotely pretty or attractive. I can't see a single appealing or attractive thing about her, yet (bizarrely) a few posters think she is 'beautiful.'

SagaNorensPorche · 26/04/2024 12:27

A shout out for Sade, so beautiful. Same for Yasmin Le Bon

DH has seen Kate Moss in the flesh (90s) and said she was out of this world stunning. I do think it's hard to tell real beauty now as we're always seeing post-surgery or filtered faces.

AzureBlue99 · 26/04/2024 09:36

Gemma Arterton was beautiful, still is but not quite as stunning these days. All the beauty labels are for the young I think. On these type of threads anyway.

AzureBlue99 · 26/04/2024 09:31

Jean Shrimpton was so beautiful. Marilyn had a manufactured beauty about her.

I thought Princess Diana was stunning in photos. But I used to see her in Kensington a lot, when she was in her 30s. She was striking to look, a bit of a big nose, quite a hard face and helmet haired. Always well dressed, but not beautiful.

MsLuxLisbon · 26/04/2024 09:18

Josette77 · 25/04/2024 22:57

Calling another woman a sex doll is so vapid in itself.

Everyone will find different people attractive. I don't find any of my friends partners attractive. They clearly do though.

Bella Hadid has discussed regretting her nose job. She wish she'd kept her ethnic nose. But we also love in a society where we still worship
"white features". Margot Robbie is gorgeous, also has had plastic surgery and does very much look like Barbie.

Angelina Jolie had big lips that suddenly on a white woman made big lips desirable. The effects are still seen today.

Media controls a lot of who we have determined as beautiful.

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There is nothing 'vapid' about calling out the Kardashians' bullshit. I hate the damage that that vile family has done to young girls and to our culture in general. Sex doll describes Kim K perfectly and I make zero apology for saying so.
As for Bella, she may have as many regrets as she pleases. She is not a beauty with the nose job and she was not a beauty without it. She is a plain Jane nepobaby and I have no idea how she even got as far as she did.

MsLuxLisbon · 26/04/2024 09:13

Josette77 · 25/04/2024 23:03

She's beautiful but also appears to have had a nose job. So not completely natural.

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Not completely natural, no. But compared to most of Hollywood, close enough.

MsLuxLisbon · 26/04/2024 09:12

Jk8 · 26/04/2024 01:49

@SabreIsMyFave Your having a laugh about Kate moss & her daughter, right ?

Kate was always a weird mix of amazing face/below average height size for modelling which made her a perfect side kick for celebrity men who were also hyped up looks wise but lacked stature as she didnt over tower them then got famous for drugs....

Her daughter & sister for that matter is just completely average & wouldnt get a look in if not for her success & professionalism

OMG this. Lottie is much prettier than Lila, but she still wouldn't be anywhere without the Moss name.

Jk8 · 26/04/2024 01:49

@SabreIsMyFave Your having a laugh about Kate moss & her daughter, right ?

Kate was always a weird mix of amazing face/below average height size for modelling which made her a perfect side kick for celebrity men who were also hyped up looks wise but lacked stature as she didnt over tower them then got famous for drugs....

Her daughter & sister for that matter is just completely average & wouldnt get a look in if not for her success & professionalism

Switcher · 25/04/2024 23:47

It was never the beauty. She was incredibly vulnerable and that was obvious. The whole package was appealing in a kind of warped way. There are many stunning beauties who I just admire, like Gisele. MM still has that aura of tragedy I guess.

ForAmberGoose · 25/04/2024 23:39

It so subjective. I find I rarely find blondes beautiful. Pretty yes but not striking or beautiful in the way I find brunettes.

I can look at Margot Robbie and think she's pretty but she wouldn't hold a candle for me next to young Monica Bellucci or young Angelina Jolie. I think MM is just pretty.

Josette77 · 25/04/2024 23:03

Ultravox · 25/04/2024 22:56

Marilyn Monroe has the X factor. But for natural beauty, style, class and elegance I think Natalie Portman has the whole package.

She's beautiful but also appears to have had a nose job. So not completely natural.