How many staggeringly good looking people do you know in real life?

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Just following on from my 'oh my god I've just discovered Richard Armitage' thread (and do watch North and South if you have not already done so!). Musing on how gorgeous he is got me thinking.

How many really good looking people do you know in real life? I'm not talking 'eye of the beholder' type beauty, but real, classical, can't argue with it beauty (male or female)? There's a girl works in our office who I think is just beautiful - she always looks so glamorous without being showy or too made up, long blond hair with a slight curl. Very elegant. She makes everyone else look like saggy puddings. And she's probably very nice too (doesn't work in my section, it's a big place).

It made me think how very few people I know or even see like this on a daily basis - most people are just very average looking (myself included!). I can't remember the last time I saw a really handsome man. I do remember a chap I saw across a bar when I was about 22, with the most amazing cheekbones. He was just beautiful. Not in a fancying kind of way, just in a 'I could look at you for hours' kind of way. But I genuinely can't think of any since. Plenty of men I have found sexy but that's different, the two don't always overlap.

I'm probably not explaining myself very well. Maybe I just move in the wrong circles! Maybe they are all celebrities these days.

One. She is so stunning people literally do a double take. She is also very warm, kind and friendly so it has never caused her any trouble to be so gorgeous. She is fascinating to look at.

Does your DH find it an issue, Sailing? Or do you? I mean does he get unwanted attention or find he gets harassed because of it? I guess women probably get more grief because of the way they look (beautiful or not) but it must be a bit annoying sometimes being devastatingly handsome!

I work with a beautiful man right now. Apparently he was a male model until he bored of it. I don't know him well but he seems nive too.

I do think it's harder for the truly beautiful to age. Over the years I've known a few stunning women and men who have aged well but the beauty dims. That must be hard to accept, I'd imagine.

I used to work on an ITU and one of the consultants was literally jaw dropping - he had a George Clooney vibe but even more chiselled and handsome. all the female staff went to pieces when he came onto the unit - we used to call him God. I couldn't speak to him which was bad for patient care as it was my job to speak to him!!
There's an early 20s girl in the department now who is perfect looking - no make up and just looks absolutely gorgeous , a bit like a young Cindy Crawford - it's frankly depressing!

I live in Denmark. Theyre all pretty damn beautiful. An ex colleague is the most stunningly natural beauty Ive ever seen. Fyi Danes think Brits are all ugly.

I suspect in comparison most of us are, redexpat

I can’t be as ugly as I thought then. Because when I’m in Denmark, Danes always speak to me in Danish

Really good looking men are rare imo. I remember sitting on a tube & noticing all the women around me sitting up/grooming themselves/dribbling & I looked up & found myself in an Armani advert with the most gorgeous man centre stage. When he got off I think a few women were pregnant.

Not a problem as such, but he definitely gets a lot of female attention. I have had a drink thrown over me by a totally random woman in a bar once when she realised I was with him - I’m not joking! I found it intimidating to a certain degree when we were first dating to be honest, but I’m used to him now and find ways to take the Micky out of him 😂

Only three that I can remember. When I was 16, on a family holiday (last one we ever took, but that's another story) to Galway, a small town on the west coast of Ireland. I went into a clothes shop to look at some jeans and the lady behing the counter just stopped me dead in my tracks. I'm not gay, but my god she was absolutely stunning. Probably early twenties, flame red curly hair, flawless ivory complection, jeans with a crop top which showed of the thinnest waist I had ever seen. She was BEAUTIFUL.

Second was a guy I knew in Uni. He wasn't a student, he was a member of the poetry group I used to attend. He was American, looked, sounded and carried himself like a film star. No idea where he is now, but he was fucking fanny galloping fabulous!

A sort of Jonathan Brandis with muscles! My god he was stunning. People would literally stare at him when he walked into a room. I guess they thought they knew him from somewhere, like an actor you recognise but can't remember why.

Thied was a guy I saw about two years ago in Ikea! I kid you not. He was with a lady who I presume was his wife. He looked about 45, slightly greying. That man was awesomly beautiful. He was in the queue for the coffee machine. I must have been staring because my sister thumped me on the shouder and said "wring your knickers out and get a grip". His wife was a very very luck lady!

Apart from those, nobody. Weird isn't it? I wonder where all the good looking people actually live. Maybe they have their own island somewhere.

'Wring your knickers out'

I used to work in a hospital in admin and a young, Australian junior doctor asked me on a date. I’m not easily impressed but I kept losing my train of thought in the middle of my sentences because he was just so implausibly handsome. He did not ask me on a second date

someone in my extended family (step-dd not blood kin) used to be able to make traffic stop.

I haven't seen her in flesh in yrs so maybe shine has gone off. She's about 35 now.

My aunt (who did some modelling) could always get free drinks off of bartenders. Her brothers would send her up to the bar to get a free round for everyone, or at least a whole bottle of something.

wring your knickers out and get a grip

I think I'm in love with your sister 💞

I'm not sure if I believe there is such a thing as unarguable beauty because even people who are revered as being 'classically beautiful' always have people who can't see what the fuss is about.

But I see dozens of really very exceptionally good looking people every day as I walk through the city I work in. And hundreds of very very attractive looking people.

It may be my age though. Now that I'm in my 40s I see all these women who are 20 years younger and I think 'you look so lovely and at the minute you think you're chubby with bad skin. You'll look back in 20 years and realise you were as slim as a whippet and your skin was glowing'.

My DD’s step-mum.

She’s absolutely beautiful and a totally lovely person too.

None that I know but recently we went to visit some family in Birmingham and a model looking young man that was working in a restaurant we were in winked at me and gave me the most gorgeous smile,he was very sweet,well I thought so my DH didn't find him so sweet lol

My mother was very beautiful. We have some video of her in her 30s and she was like a movie star. She never dyed her hair (or changed her hairstyle) or wore makeup beyond lipstick. She stayed beautiful all her life - even as an old woman in her 80s she looked like a beautiful 80 year old.

Other than that - very few people really. I was doing a college tour with my dd a few months ago and there was another girl on the tour who was drop dead gorgeous. Blonde, blue eyed and startlingly pretty. I actually couldn't take my eyes off her. Pointed her out to dd who didn't think she was that beautiful.

I have a friend who looked like Angelina Jolie when she was younger. She still looks a lot like her but is in her 50s now.

Through other people I've met several. I think people tend to hang around with people of similar attractiveness to be honest. I'm attractive not drop dead gorgeous as are my friends .

One, my neighbor. I quite enjoyed the hot weather because but meant he was sunbathing. I may have come over all peculiar.

Yes. One of my friends used to stop traffic - litterally - when she was young and people still stand and stare now. She looks like Claudia Schiffer but better. She’s an ex-model turned chef and totally plays down her looks. She’s bright and funny too. People still whisper about the first time they saw her.

Another is a colleague who looks like Pocahontis. Just exquisite and very model-like. Again, plays it down and is lovely & v bright.

I briefly dated a man who looked like a greek god. Like he was chiselled from marble. Women used to trip over each other to get to him. Blonde, blue eyed, golden, white teeth, square jaw, 6’2” six pack. I felt invisible!

I think the most handsome/beautiful men and wonen Ive ever seen have been in Knightsbridge though. Cant walk 50 feet there without seeing some breathtaking specimen.

I know a ridiculous amount of beautiful people, honestly it's hard work. If you're not perfectly preened you feel like shit. I'm by far the ugly one compared to my social circle! And the only one with a child. It really is hard work, but wouldn't trade them for the world. And the fact I'm the only one with a child means they all adore him :)

Just one really. XH's ex and mother of his children. Black hair, fair skin, blue eyes, delicate features with a more chiselled Angelina Jolie look. We got the DC together once and I was very amused to see blokes walking into things and doing classic double-takes. In real life she had the worst Essex accent I've ever heard and wasn't too bright (or nice) either but was genuinely the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

@PaintBySticker I wonder if that was my little brother?! He's the only stunning person I know irl, and what I was coming on the thread to say

I had a boyfriend in my early 20's who was, and remains the most stunning man I have ever met. He's so fucking gorgeous that even my male straight friends remarked upon him. Fortunately it was a fizzle out type of relationship so all I have are fond memories. He's on my Facebook and pushing 50 he's still fucking gorgeous.