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to think being blonde, tall and slim doesn't automatically mean you are beautiful?

114 replies

oharna · 04/05/2013 15:34

(Not saying that anyone who is any of those things is in any way ugly btw)

However I was reading the "do you think you're pretty thread" and quite a few responses were along the lines of "yes because...."

"I am tall and slim" or "I had waist length blonde hair"

I don't think any of these things automatically mean you are beautiful.

Marcia Cross is a redhead. Melissa McCarthy isn't slim. Mila Kunis is only 5ft4. All these women are beautiful (imo) and despite some not being tall, blonde or slim.

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squoosh · 04/05/2013 17:46

Gwynnie has an amazing figure but I think she's one of those women that other women rather than men would class as beautiful.

JamesJazz · 04/05/2013 17:48

Haven't rea the whole thread, but just jumping on to say that the ugliest person I ever knew was blonde and slim.

She was far too naturally thin, and ate the worst diet I think I have ever witnessed (think constant fizzy drinks and sweets, sugar sugar sugar basically). Perhaps because of this, she had crap teeth and skin.

But moreover, she was a horrible, mean, vindictive and spiteful woman, an by god it showed. In the things she said and did, and it made her about as unattractive as can possibly be. If she'd been a nice, kind person, I doubt I'd even have noticed the physical attributes that made her so unattractive.

The hilarious thing was, she photographed really, really well- such a huge contrast from reality. And she clearly thought she was attractive because she ticked the 'blonde and thin' box.

squoosh · 04/05/2013 17:48

1960s era Catherine Deneuve, I'm going to put a request in that I get to look like her in one of my next lives.

LadyBeagleEyes · 04/05/2013 17:49

Helena Christensen is who I'd like to look like in my next life.

thebody · 04/05/2013 17:49

Gwynnie is pretty but imagine excruciating company. Can you imagine her letting her hair down and lighting her farts?

Agree re Emma she's very pretty.

I think other things like a nice smile, dimples and warm personality.

You can be tall, blind and slim and have a face like a bag of spanners too.

MarshaBrady · 04/05/2013 17:50

Gwynnie is looking prettier lately. Better than the very, very pale blonde straightened hair circa crying Oscars years.

Tall and blonde, well you can be pretty or beautiful or you might not be. Just like anyone else.

BreasticlesNTesticles · 04/05/2013 17:52

Can anyone link to the other thread as I can't find the blooming thing?

mrsjay · 04/05/2013 17:56

I think anybody who answers are you beautiful on a thread needs to get their head out of their bums tbh

mrsjay · 04/05/2013 17:56

I am obviously a munter to have said that though Wink

AKissIsNotAContract · 04/05/2013 17:57

Of course not all tall, slim blondes are beautiful. Have you never heard the acronym BOBFOC - body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch.

ComposHat · 04/05/2013 17:59

yanbu tall blond and slim?

I give you Peter Crouch.

mrsjay · 04/05/2013 18:00

he has a pretty wife so she must think he is stunning I think it is the mullet that got her and not his millions

SoleSource · 04/05/2013 18:04

I am tall, long blond hair and stunning!

ComposHat · 04/05/2013 18:05

I can't think what else would have attracted her to the multi millionaire Peter Crouch.

To give him his due he did give one of my favourite answers to a questionnaire.

Q. What would you have been of you hadn't been a footballer?

A. A virgin

BreasticlesNTesticles · 04/05/2013 18:05

Thank you squoosh

MarshaBrady · 04/05/2013 18:05

ha very good.

SoleSource · 04/05/2013 18:07

Compos lol

mrsjay · 04/05/2013 18:07

the man has a point Grin

LadyBeagleEyes · 04/05/2013 18:10

I do agree MrsJay, though I sometimes wonder if they're just very honest and confident.
Though if everybody is as beautiful as they say they are, MN must be the best looking website on the Internet.
There's one particular poster who always comes on with a link to her profile, saying she's never been confident about her looks and she's stunning.
I think some just come on to fish for compliments.

AKissIsNotAContract · 04/05/2013 18:12

I think I'd sooner shag Peter Crouch than Wayne Rooney.

ilovexmastime · 04/05/2013 18:35

Wouldn't anyone Akiss?!

loofet · 04/05/2013 18:39

I've never met a man irl who has a preference for hair colour or who likes tall women. Honestly. All the guys i've met prefer shorter women, definitely shorter than themselves. I even met a couple of guys who liked women in the 5 foot region. And all of them weren't arsed about hair colour either. Ime the criteria always seems to be 'nice eyes' or either nice legs/boobs/arse depending on which sort of man they are Grin

Fwiw I think yanbu and I agree with you. I can't think of a tall, slim blonde i've ever looked at and gone 'wow!' Does SJP count? I think she's beautiful, but then I guess I have a weird taste- I also think Gaynor Faye is stunning which always seems to raise eyebrows and I don't know why! Smile

BeCool · 04/05/2013 18:41

To the shallow, it probably does.

GetOrfMoiLand · 04/05/2013 18:41

I am very tall, thin and blonde.

I am emphatically not beautiful.

I am a twat though.

Where do I fit in in this Venn diagram then? Grin

Poor old Peter Crouch. His upper jaw bone is too big for his head.