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

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DuggeesWooOOooggle · 11/12/2018 18:55

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.

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OhWotIsItThisTime · 12/12/2018 13:32

There’s a new guy in another team at work who is stunning. Looks like a model and made me blither the first time I saw him.

UtterlyDesperate · 12/12/2018 13:38

@PaintBySticker Wycombe is his usual station, and my other brother and I call him "Golden Boy" for that exact reason (he is not the golden child Grin)... Could be, could be!

The weird thing is that we all clearly have the same parents, but he is stunning (people turn and stare even though he's in his 30s now, and has lost that "softness" of youth) whereas we are rather... Homely Grin

IcedPurple · 12/12/2018 14:54

I think it’s the effect on others that confirms how amazingly good looking someone is.

Not necessarily. Someone who is particularly tall, 'sexy' or striking looking will get a a lot of attention, but it doesn't always mean they are beautiful. For example, a woman with long blonde hair, wearing high heels and a nice outfit is going to make heads turn, even if she's 'attractive' or 'striking' rather than beautiful.

IcedPurple · 12/12/2018 14:56

I think a good deal of women genuinely confuse being stunning and beautiful with being highly groomed and over-made up. If you stripped them of everything that's unnatural about their face and body you frequently see someone pretty plain underneath.

That's true. Look at all those 'stars without make-up' features in the gossip magazines. Even the most renowned beauties often look fairly ordinary without professional make-up, hair-styling and designer threads.

Cherries101 · 12/12/2018 14:57

I make heads turn and never have a problem attracting male attention. I’m tall, Indian, curly dark hair / eyes, curvaceous size 14. I wouldn’t call myself beautiful though.

IcedPurple · 12/12/2018 15:00

Such beauty is very rare, and I suspect a burden on those few who have it. To be gawped and judged purely on your looks, and to deal with it when it fades. Must be hard.

To me, that's kind of like saying it must be tough to be rich. Sure, there are downsides to being rich and/or beautiful, but they pale when compared to the downsides of being plain or poor.

Besides, if someone really is finding their beauty to be a terrible burden, it's pretty easy for even the most gorgeous person to downplay their looks if they want to. But they very rarely want to. And as you say, looks fade anyway, so a time will come when these people cursed by their beauty will be average just like the rest of us!

As Joan Rivers said (cruelly but accurately): "Once, we women all wanted to look like Liz Taylor. Now, we do!"

FooFighter99 · 12/12/2018 16:21

A girl in our office and her husband are like Barbie and Ken (in a good way) but she spoils it a little by wearing too much makeup (really dark foundation and always with the false lashes!!)

She has a perfect figure, flawless face and dresses immaculately

and she's an absolute doll to boot, proper genuinely lovely girl Smile

CBA2RTFT · 12/12/2018 16:43

I rarely, if ever, judge anyone to be beautiful, but my friend's son definitely is. He has been stopped on the street and asked if he's a model, and generally gets a lot of attention. He's also polite, intelligent, well-spoken and a lovely person. He always found the attention amusing but a bit annoying, and has grown a messy beard to put them off!

Also DD had an almost beautiful boyfriend for a time, but he was an utter tool.

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Girlwhowearsglasses · 12/12/2018 17:05

I know two v famous models a bit. They are lovely both of them. They would make your head turn if they walked in a room and when I’ve seen them at informal social occasions (in peoples houses rather than ‘out’ ) they have been dressed down and so far away from really ‘celeb’ or WAG style - noticeabley not much make up (maybe flicky eyeliner, lipstick) and certainly not heavily treated eyebrows or contouring of any kind. Thing is, they’re the sort of people who can wear a silk scarf as a top and jeans and blow you away.

Girlwhowearsglasses · 12/12/2018 17:11

Also my DB has this amazingly stunning girlfriend when he was 17. People used to stop her in the street. I think he found it embarrassing and she found it annoying.

I once saw Cate Blanchett somewhere totally unexpected a couple of days after she was at the oscarsfor ‘Carol’ it was a dull February and we were visiting a well known garden (and virtually nobody else there). I would have known she was a film star even if I hadn’t known who she was. She had a Barbour type jacket, leather trousers and big boots- but she was radiant.

U2HasTheEdge · 12/12/2018 17:28

Yeah, children don't really count. They change so much. One of the most unattractive children I know is now an extremely good looking adult and I can think of a lot of examples where the opposite it true too.

I don't know any staggeringly good looking people. I did come across a woman who was just amazingly beautiful once in the pub. Then she got up to sing and the men sitting next to their wives didn't know where to look and after she sang she didn't get many claps, despite the fact that she could sing amazingly well as well. She was mesmerising and It was very interesting to watch how people reacted to her.

TheNavigator · 12/12/2018 17:35

I don't think models are necessarily staggering beautiful. My DH (teacher) had a girl in his class who did some fashion modelling. He said she was tall and incredibly thin but apart from that nothing special - clothes models are clothes hangars really, rather than necessarily being beautiful in their own right.

My friend was at a party with Scarlet Johnansen and said she was so tiny and so radiantly beautiful she almost seemed otherwordly. Not a very nice personality, however, by all accounts.

Sadly I don't know any film stars, models, or beautiful people - everyone I mix with is attractive to different degrees but all within the norm.

IcedPurple · 12/12/2018 17:40

I don't think models are necessarily staggering beautiful.

Agreed. Look at the most highly paid models, such as Karlie Kloss or Coco Rocha. Photogenic, yes. Striking, yes. But beautiful? I don't think so. Not to mention that many very beautiful women would be shown the door at a modelling agency because they don't meet the very stringent height and weight standards.

My friend was at a party with Scarlet Johnansen and said she was so tiny and so radiantly beautiful she almost seemed otherwordly.

Scarlet is one I've never 'got'. I can understand why men might find her non-threateningly sexy, but take away the low-cut gowns and the flowing hair, and she looks like a younger Hilary Clinton.

blackheartsgirl · 12/12/2018 18:45

My boss who is stunning to look at, hes got the most amazing piercing blue eyes and dark hair, nice cheekbones and a husky voice

Sadly he's a bit of a dickhead and hes not actually atttactive to me just beautiful to look at

canibehereifimnotamum · 12/12/2018 19:02

Apart from my DH obviously 😋 I had a patient who looked just like Flynn Ryder from tangled. He was incredibly good looking!! I was speechless

radioactiveimagination · 12/12/2018 19:05

About 7 years ago I saw the most beautiful man I've ever laid eyes on working in the shop at the scotch whisky experience on the royal mile in Edinburgh. Blond, blue eyes and burly. So my type. And he was in a kilt. I could not take my eyes off him....Still think about him even now

MsTSwift · 12/12/2018 19:08

They did a Tommy Hilfiger shoot at a hotel dh and I were at. The models were stunning but looked quite glowering and didn’t eat all day only smoked while the crew tucked into a buffet lunch

A580Hojas · 12/12/2018 19:11

Absolutely none! I was friends with a guy at Uni who has become a very famous movie star and he was exceptionally good looking, but even he is not a Hollywood leading man. He usually plays a villain.

umpteennamechanges · 12/12/2018 19:18

@dun1urkin What town was your 'perfect woman' at college in?

Was it Stoke?

IJustLostTheGame · 12/12/2018 19:23

I have a friend who looks like a petite Bollywood princess. I have literally seen people stare open mouthed after her in the street.

There's also a lady at my work who looks like a classic painting. She has long curly bright (naturally) red hair, huge green eyes and flawless pale skin. She wears this orange red lipstick as well which also makes her look cool.
And she's really really nice, the bitch.

umpteennamechanges · 12/12/2018 19:25

My grandfather and his siblings....grandfather looked like a better looking young Elvis Presley, his sister looked like Elizabeth Taylor.

swashbuckles · 12/12/2018 19:41

whowould did he commit suicide? Jonathan Brandis I mean. I wondered what happened to him and a quick google suggested it, from memory. Very sad.

I know lots (being a lapdancer you meet a lot of stunning women). Not so much men though.

lilySalvatore · 12/12/2018 19:46

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ElsieCat · 12/12/2018 19:50

I don't think models are necessarily staggering beautiful.

I agree. Some of them are frankly a bit odd looking and even quite alien-like. It seems the key to being a successful high end fashion model is not about being pretty but about having a captivating/fascinating quality and being very thin. And bone stucture. It's all about the bone structure.