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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?

Josette77 · 25/04/2024 22:57

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:02

She did have some surgery, but it's a bit much to call her 'the original Kim K'. She had talent and charisma and some brains. She wasn't just a vapid sex doll like Kim K.

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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.

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.

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:51

dottiedodah · 25/04/2024 22:43

I Think MM personified that era of glamour and sexiness perfectly. She had oodles of sex appeal,high profile lovers and that special beauty that cannot be defined, its just there. Others are beautiful but not as memorable somehow

I'm not sure I think she would be seen as quite such an icon had she lived out a full lifespan. Her early death is a large part of her mystique. Not the whole part, but a lot of it. A previous poster mentioned Brigitte Bardot. If she had died young she would have been seen as iconic in a way she isn't now (partly because she is more famous for her animal activism and for her Islamophobic views, but partly because she is just an elderly woman like many others. Ageing is the great equaliser)

IClaudine · 25/04/2024 22:48

This is my favourite photo of Marilyn

There have been plenty before and after Marilyn Monroe!

twoforj0y · 25/04/2024 22:48

I have never, ever understood the MM thing. I can't see it! She is plain, doughy, made up looking and has no charisma. I make can't see it and next have!

dottiedodah · 25/04/2024 22:43

I Think MM personified that era of glamour and sexiness perfectly. She had oodles of sex appeal,high profile lovers and that special beauty that cannot be defined, its just there. Others are beautiful but not as memorable somehow

Dimmies · 25/04/2024 22:39

I think Gal Gadot is properly beautiful.

boobot1 · 25/04/2024 22:34

Nat6999 · 25/04/2024 22:27

Who knows what she would have looked like had she lived. Look at Diana Dors & how beautiful she was at a similar age, she definitely lost her looks as she got older.

Diana dors was plain even at her peak though. A poor mans Marilyn.

Nat6999 · 25/04/2024 22:27

Who knows what she would have looked like had she lived. Look at Diana Dors & how beautiful she was at a similar age, she definitely lost her looks as she got older.

TTPD · 25/04/2024 22:26

It's because she died young.

HappiestSleeping · 25/04/2024 22:26

randomchap · 25/04/2024 15:23

Eye of the beholder, no-one can definitely say person x is the most beautiful. Personal preferences come into it.

This 👆

Nobody has mentioned my wife in this conversation yet, and she clearly wins it hands down. At least from my point of view she does.

TheRealYellowWiggle · 25/04/2024 22:25

Theres some people you just can't take your eyes off. Will be different people for each of us though!
I love seeing Gemma Chan's face, she is so beautiful, and Sophie Ellis Bextor as well.

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:24

Fluffywigg · 25/04/2024 22:23

I can say none of my crowd would pick her out to be beautiful either. Literally more attractive women in shops. Yeah connections certainly help in these situations!

I think Margot Robbie is stunning 😍

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Margot is gorgeous! Far prettier than any of the women mentioned so far.

Fluffywigg · 25/04/2024 22:23

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:14

I'm sure you are. I was actually really surprised to find anyone on this thread who thought she is attractive. I don't know anyone who does IRL. I think she is downright scary looking in some pictures, she has had so much surgery that she looks years older than her age. She would have been better leaving herself alone, she would have been plain but at least looked her age. Nobody will ever convince me that she would ever been picked to model if she was just a girl from a normal background. Same goes for Lila Moss Hack, she looks like her father rather than her mother.

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I can say none of my crowd would pick her out to be beautiful either. Literally more attractive women in shops. Yeah connections certainly help in these situations!

I think Margot Robbie is stunning 😍

Saschka · 25/04/2024 22:23

JudgeJ · 25/04/2024 21:04

By the standards of her time, 1950s, she was probably the first very sexy actress who projected her sexuality. There was other actress who were beautiful but in a more subdued way.

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Rita Hayworth would like a word.

StasisMom · 25/04/2024 22:21

Willyoubuymeahouseofgold · 25/04/2024 21:23

If you want to "measure" the beauty , it's Bella Hadid . She has the highest score in the Golden Ratio on most lists.

Oh yes, I've seen that but I reckon Kendall Jenner is more beautiful. I think with Marilyn, her personality came through and there are natural, candid shots of her looking happy where I think she looks much more beautiful than the highly styled and posed shots.

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 25/04/2024 22:20

She also paved the way for one of my favourite comedy lines of all time - the milkman in Fr Ted on seeing Mrs Doyle. So if nothing else I thank her for that 😀

Tlolljs · 25/04/2024 22:17

I think Kate Moss is very plain. Angelina Jolie I’ve never seen the fascination with I think she’s very masculine looking.

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:14

Fluffywigg · 25/04/2024 22:11

And as for saying Bella Hadid is considered the most beautiful…. Absolutely not. I don’t think she’s attractive at all. I’d go so far as saying I’m probably prettier 😂

I'm sure you are. I was actually really surprised to find anyone on this thread who thought she is attractive. I don't know anyone who does IRL. I think she is downright scary looking in some pictures, she has had so much surgery that she looks years older than her age. She would have been better leaving herself alone, she would have been plain but at least looked her age. Nobody will ever convince me that she would ever been picked to model if she was just a girl from a normal background. Same goes for Lila Moss Hack, she looks like her father rather than her mother.

Fluffywigg · 25/04/2024 22:11

And as for saying Bella Hadid is considered the most beautiful…. Absolutely not. I don’t think she’s attractive at all. I’d go so far as saying I’m probably prettier 😂

MsLuxLisbon · 25/04/2024 22:02

Youcunnyfunt · 25/04/2024 21:59

Marilyn Monroe had a shit ton of surgery, and it’s well documented. She was the original Kim K.
She had a good starting point, she was never bad looking. I think we can agree that the vast majority of people would find her appealing! 😁

She did have some surgery, but it's a bit much to call her 'the original Kim K'. She had talent and charisma and some brains. She wasn't just a vapid sex doll like Kim K.

Youcunnyfunt · 25/04/2024 21:59

Marilyn Monroe had a shit ton of surgery, and it’s well documented. She was the original Kim K.
She had a good starting point, she was never bad looking. I think we can agree that the vast majority of people would find her appealing! 😁

Fluffywigg · 25/04/2024 21:54

Noshowlomo · 25/04/2024 15:31

She was so beautiful and had mega star quality but I think the most beautiful woman that ever existed is Gisele, around 2005. I was (and still am) obsessed

I don’t think Gilsele is beautiful. She looks like a model and she has great bone structure but imo there are women every day in the street that are more attractive.

Just goes to show how subjective beauty is.

pensione · 25/04/2024 21:50

Kindleonfire · 25/04/2024 21:43

Just remember even Marilyn Monroe wasn't born looking like that!

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pensione · 25/04/2024 21:49

SabreIsMyFave · 25/04/2024 21:37

Marylin Monroe WAS beautiful though. A breathtakingly natural beauty. Sexy and stunning from head to toe. Not a scrap of botox or fillers or fake tan or teeth whitening. GORGEOUS!

I have to agree with a pp about Gisele Bundchen too. Striking and beautiful! One of the last proper supermodels to appear.

As for the woman off Masterchef being beautiful ........... (Fateha) ..? Just googled her as I never heard of her ... Errr well I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 😬 It's clear that beauty is subjective when someone says Princess Diana is ordinary and Fateha is beautiful!

Meghan Markle AND Kate Middleton are both very pretty. Different pretty. Like Debbie Harry and Grace Kelly. Both stunning, but look different.

Bella and Gigi Hadid are pretty but I think they are overrated. Gigi is the prettier of the two. Ditto Halle Berry. Attractive but not stunning IMO. Angelina Jolie is stunning IMO, as is Naomi Campbell. The most stunning of the old school catwalk models (apart from Gisele) is Kate Moss IMO. Kate's daughter is a knockout too. Also the model Bar Refaeli is really pretty too

I also think Sydney Sweeney is very pretty, but some people think she is as plain as a lump of dough. Completely subjective. As a pp said, Bella Hadid is classed as one of the most beautiful women in the world, but in my eyes she is rather ordinary and average. 6/10.

The prettiest woman I have seen on TV for a long time is Marcia Wallace - the West End star who was on Big Brother. Vibrant, beautiful, and talented. Super attractive IMO.

MM was pretty yes, but I wouldn’t say ‘breathtakingly natural beauty.’