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.

no disrespect but I bet she says that to everyone. How on earth could shepossiblytell from a scan of an unborn baby?

From her facial bone structure perhaps.

At the time, I thought she was just being nice and said it to every parent. But when DD was born, she really was a good looking newborn.

ElsieCat

Funny how you pick my post out of all the other rapists from parents whose children are also beautiful.

Bitter?

POSTS not rapists

I'm really surprised by these answers, I know quite a few!

More women than men, but at least 5 women and 3 men who are beautifully stunning!

A farmer I know. I often see him showing sheep. So I can pretend I am looking at the sheep instead of him.

My brother and my cousin. Obviously not in a "fancy" way for me.
Both are around 6'5". Gym honed but not overly muscly, defined cheekbones and facial features that are unusual.
If I walk around with either of them, I'm always amazed by how quickly head's turn. People stop to look at them. I've seen women, and men, physically swoon over them.
It's really strange because I'm so distinctly average looking and my brother is stunning. He's also super clever which is actually more annoying.!

ChodeofChodeHall I saw that about RA's middle name being Crispin and was a bit dismayed but it looks like he also went to a normal primary school and comprehensive in Leicester so I don't think he can be that posh . Incidentally isn't Crispin Bonham-Carter (the sappy sidekick to Mr Colin Firth Darcy) now a teacher in a comprehensive school? Cousin of Helena Bonham Carter I believe.

Anyway I digress.

I don’t think children count tbh as they change so much, most “beautiful” celebs have to grow into their looks. There is that model who was named the most beautiful child, her face is gorgeous but she looked a lot older then she was & she is still lovely but doesn’t look as pretty if that makes sense.

I used to get stared at and stopped in the street when I was younger. I have had the experience of going into a pub and having the conversation die down because everyone turned to look at me! I'm 6ft though which gets people's attention. Just to be clear, I'm not claiming I was stunning, I know plenty of people who didn't think I was! Just recounting the experience. Now I'm in my early 40s and a few stone heavier (and married) that phase of my life has past, but it does still happen occasionally. I know a lot of people who I think are facially beautiful or who have a great 'look' but yes, only a few who are just unutterably stunning. One of my friends is a professional backing singer - she's got an amazing voice and just the most beautiful face, and glowing skin. She's in her mid 40s now and still incredible looking.

I think it’s the effect on others that confirms how amazingly good looking someone is. My gorgeous friend turns heads wherever she goes and on a night out I have literally seen men queuing up to talk to her. If anyone ever talks to me, it’s to ask about my friend . I do a bit better if I am on my own but with her, no chance.

I used to be tick box pretty (nothing special imo) in a way that some people found unusual. I had people go out of their way to be nice to me (usually men) so often that I didn't realise it was because of looks until I lost them. I'm pretty plain now and rarely get a second glance and definitely never any special treatment.

Oh I'd forgotten! I won a beautiful baby competition. I have the photos and I was really, really beautiful as a baby. M&D said people looked at me and then them and said - i don't believe it and people asked if I was adopted, which I am not. I am Mrs Average now.

And I've just worked out why i went from hero to zero in the looks department - babies are not expected to have much in the way of glorious cheek bones.

I went to school with a girl who was really a true beauty, just absolutely stunning. She had a very tragic life though and sadly committed suicide several years ago

Most stunning people are nice too because their lives tend to be more pleasant. But i knew one woman who was beautiful but had nothing to her at all. She wasn't nasty just totally blank. She wasn't shy just made zero effort to engage with anyone. My adult son met her and I said to him she's beautiful isn't she - he said no, only to look at.

I don't think I know any! But I am middle aged and working in an area not renowned for prizing good looks (higher education). Obviously a lot of the students are stunning, but that is because they are young and privileged with the good teeth, clear skin and shiny hair that goes with it - I wouldn't say, thinking back to the last couple of graduations, I saw any that stood out as more than that.

I've seen a couple in my lifetime. One at university, he was classically good-looking when he was awake but when he was asleep he was just heartbreakingly beautiful. Like an angel. He wasn't a particularly wonderful person though, not awful but a bit of a "boi" and not at all sexy. I know one woman now who's utterly beautiful, in her 40's, two kids but flawless, the bone structure is unbelievable.

I think truly aesthetically beautiful people are few and far between.

Whereas children considered gorgeous tend to have round, soft faces, chubby cheeks, big eyes and button noses. But they can end up looking like lumpen peasant features on an adult.

This was/is me

I was in a restaurant once and Cillian Murphy was at another table (it was an ordinary Indian restaurant, nothing special). I've never found him attractive, still don't, he looks a bit alien to me.

But my goodness, in person he just looked weirdly perfect. It was mesmerising really.

And I actually think my SIL is one of the truly beautiful. My DBro is a sickeningly good-looking bloke too - I got all the misshapen, lumpy genes . Their kids are gorgeous as you'd expect!

Only a handful tbh. There were a couple at my all girls school who were stunning, one guy at sixth form who was model good looking (but dim as a 9-watt bulb, unfortunately), and there are a couple of gorgeous mums at my kids' school. The whole package is really rare though - good looking and gorgeous figure and lovely/intelligent. You often get one or two of the list, but rarely any more than that.

About 50 years ago I was at college with a willowy Indian girl..she was so beautiful. Had a lovely nature too, gorgeous clothes as well that complemented her skin tone.
Wonder how she looks now at nearly 68
I don’t k ow anyone really beautiful but then I don’t mix much with the 16-30 age group

One of my childhood friends, he lived next door to me. Last saw him when he was a gangly 13 year old with bad hair and braces and very skinny. We moved away. About 10 years later I'm at a funeral (of one of the adults who lived on my old street) and there he was just radiating out superantural good looks. It's difficult to explain quite how shocking beautiful he was. No surprise that he worked as a model.

My DS! Not saying it as he's my son, his looks are remarked upon quite a lot and I get told he looks like me except for his nose which is very small compared to my big honker, but he truly has the most amazing eyes and dimples and he just has this other world glow about him I can't explain.
people stop and stare and him and it annoys me but it makes me feel uneasy and him too as he's already quite shy.

DP has a few mates who are models, and they always have girlfriends who are also models so we spend a lot of time around very good looking people. One of them in particular always has people turning to look at him when we walk into a pub for instance, and is approached constantly by women. They find it pretty tiresome and most of them work really hard on 'side hustles' to break away as the modelling work is dull and unfulfilling.

A lot of the people I envied as a teen and thought were stunning have grown into mediocre good looking adults. I think our society obsesses over youth as the pinnacle of beauty and it distorts our perceptions massively.