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Are you the better looking sibling?

142 replies

Wishiwasholsk · 10/03/2018 11:46

I’m one of 4 (3 girls, 1 boy.)

My sisters are very pretty, naturally slim whereas I’ve had to battle my weight all my life, My face is also more plain compared to theirs,

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Catinthebath · 10/03/2018 15:40

I got the brains, my sis got the looks. She tells me I got brains and looks. Love that woman to bits

Bugjune · 10/03/2018 16:14

My brother and I are both average looking, tall and slim but facially nothing to write home about. Mum is 65 and still stunning, in her youth she was often compared to Jaclyn Smith and pretty much every other gorgeous famous brunette.

goforkyourself · 10/03/2018 16:31

I'm the better looking one; my brother is very plain and geeky. My parents are both tubby and nondescript, God knows where I got my looks from Confused

jaseyraex · 10/03/2018 16:36

My brother often gets compared to Lurch from the Addams family Grin I guess I win the looks competition between us but I'm fairly average looking so nothing to brag about. My brother is very smart though, I definitely lack in the brains department.

NC4Now · 10/03/2018 16:40

Yes I am better looking, more intelligent, and dare I say it, cool?

But my brother is a lot more sorted out with his life, stable, happily married and has better mental health.

Bugjune · 10/03/2018 16:48

A cousin of mine really hit the jackpot. Cambridge degree and cheekbones you could grate cheese on!

Avonandice · 10/03/2018 16:49

In my aunts world my sister is 'the pretty one' or 'the clever one' depending on who she is talking to or where we are.
My brother is reasonably attractive but has the added status as the only boy.
Me? apparently 'had children' is all she can say about me.

My sister is clever and pretty but she was sent to private school and had outside tutors so got to go to university.Plus my dad paid for her to go as his second wife decided she was going, brother while wont stop traffic with his looks is very active and so is toned and muscular as the bugger never stops. I am short, fat, dumpy and going grey. But according to my brothers mate I both a gangster ass and a pair of boobs to die in.

Morphene · 10/03/2018 17:15

Nope, much prettier younger sister.

Jenasaurus · 10/03/2018 17:28

my DS is slim and attractive but in a subtle way, more like Selina scott type look My sister also had all the brains, in fact my dad used to say, Sis has the brains and I have the looks but I am chubbier so think we are probably equal in the looks stakes

Whisky2014 · 10/03/2018 17:31

I think I'm better looking and am kinder and more considerate. He is more intelligent and more successful but he can be a horror.

Mammalamb · 10/03/2018 17:33

Nah! I’m the ugly one. Size 16-18, small and look ten years older than I am. Sister is tall blond and beautiful. But, I don’t think her beauty has enriched her life anymore than mine. Except when we were younger and more dickheads were attracted to her than me

Mammalamb · 10/03/2018 17:34

My young brother is also much more attractive than me. He’s a handsome soul. Never mind. I’m quite funny

DenPerry · 10/03/2018 17:36

My brothers look much older than me as one works outdoors all day and has health issues, and the other takes a lot of medication for various mental illnesses and HIV. But if these weren't factors I'd say we were equal!

TinklyLittleLaugh · 10/03/2018 17:48

When we were kids my sister was the pretty one, (and the golden child) I was the clever one. Yes you've guessed it, my perfectly bright sister underachieved academically and I suffered from lack of confidence. And my sister attracted the local cool lad/psycho while she was too young to know any better.

Fast forward a few decades, I am slim and health and have learned the wonders of makeup, poor DSis is very overweight and looks much older than she is due to stress from psycho ex, very challenging kids and generally not having enough time/enthusiasm to look after herself. Someone actually though she was my mum the other day.

When I had my second daughter I was very anxious that she seemed to be much plainer than her sister. Actually now they are both students the youngest one is very slightly better looking, although they have been taken for twins. Reading this thread it has only just dawned on me that my anxiety was probably a hangover from how my sister and I were treated.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/03/2018 17:56

It doesn't automatically mean you're a stunner just because you're slim.
Same as it doesn't mean you're repulsive because you carry a bit of timber.

I'd say me and my sister balance each other out, really. She's got the better figure but I'm prettier. She's got the brains. I've got the sense of humour.
Looks, size, personality you'd never pick us out as siblings in a billion years.

AliasGrape · 10/03/2018 17:57

I don’t know really, we’ve all got our strengths. My mum was completely stunning in her youth, and looked a good 10-20 years younger than her years into her 70s when we sadly lost her. She struggled with her weight at times, but always looked fabulous. Great skin despite never doing a thing with it, beautiful nails (a small thing I know but I used to be obsessed with her nails as a girl as mine never would, and still won’t, grow without splitting and breaking).

Oldest sister (19 years older than me!) has a cracking figure, great boobs and legs. She’s facially more like our dad than mum but still good looking in her 50s, my boyfriends when I was younger always fancied her!

Brother - good looking man, people would comment on his ‘gorgeous head of hair’ I remember. But very short, as our parents were, which I think dented his confidence. His two sons, both grown men now themselves, are absolutely gorgeous, his handsome face but also very strapping and athletic.

Other sister - most like mum, the double of her really, and probably objectively the better looking. Very short which she hated when younger, but stunning face, hair etc. I used to think she was like some kind of fairy princess and basically want to be her when I was little. As she’s got older has had similar weight issues to mum (and I) but seems to have cracked that now. She definitely works the hardest at it of all of us though, all kinds of lotions and potions, treatments, surgery. I’ve never thought she needed any of it and do think she looked better without.

Me - I’m the only one above 5”4 - by a good few inches, and both sisters have said they envy that, not that I think it’s particularly important. I’ve got quite a pretty face I think, I like my cheekbones and the shape of my features, but I’m also the fattest and my skin isn’t as good as the others. I’ve always thought I had great hair, but that’s gone to shit lately. I look younger than my age sometimes, and am 10 years younger than closest sibling, so if youthful = better looking then maybe, but they’ve all aged great anyway and I’m not sure that’s the best indicator. I’m so different from them physically anyway I’ve never really compared before.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/03/2018 18:00

It's strange as well as my sisters was always full of confidence chatty sociable as a child. Where as i was appallingly shy and would freeze when anyone so much spoke to me. I was like a timid mouse.
However now im the noisy cunt Grin and my sister is quite reserved.

crazydoglady6867 · 10/03/2018 18:00

I am one of 4 (3 girls 1boy). My elder sister and I are by far the better looking as the other 2 are dunks and druggies so god help us if we don’t look better than them 2 😂😂😂

suckonthatmaureen · 10/03/2018 18:10

Dsis is of blonde hair, blue eyes, megawatt smile, killer curves type of beauty. Think a blonde Jessica Rabbit. Clever and funny.

I am taller, willowy, darker, probably more classically beautiful. Also clever and funny. (And modest). Wink

Good thing is, we both look totally different and are so different in personality that we were never really compared as children, and I never got the sense of one being held up as the prettiest. We were just allowed to be ourselves.

My Dbro and DH hit the jackpot. They're turn in the street good looking! I have seen a ripple effect from both sexes when my DH walks past. Grin

BeautyQueenFromMars · 10/03/2018 18:18

Nope, I'm the plainest and fattest of all 4 of us. Also the shortest.

ImogenTubbs · 10/03/2018 18:40

Yes, I was always the pretty 'good' girl and DSis was the arty, interesting one. This is not my opinion, by the way, this is what plenty of others told us. Used to drive me crazy. Worst one ever was some idiot bloke in a nightclub who on finding out we were sisters said, "oh, so one got the looks and one got the personality?" He found out a bit more about my personality then, I can tell you! Angry

I hate the way people compare siblings. It does sometime come from a good place - because people are trying so hard to find something 'unique', but it came as something of a revaluation to me and DSis as adults to realise we were actually both good at some of the same things, and that was ok.

RedPandaMama · 10/03/2018 18:44

Growing up my mum always said 'you're the pretty one and your sister is the thin one' Hmm although we're both grown up now and my sister is gorgeous. I think I have a reasonably nice face but look awful after having a baby - double chin, huge saggy boobs and baby poochy stomach. She is definitely more attractive now.

AccidentallyRunToWindsor · 10/03/2018 18:57

Yep

FuzzyCustard · 10/03/2018 19:04

Glory no...my sister is thinner, prettier (she used to be a model) and cleverer than me. She was better at everything...ballet, horse riding, piano...My teachers used to say "you're not like your sister, are you?" And not in a good way. She also married very well and is very rich.

But I like my husband much better!

EnlightenedPorkRind · 10/03/2018 19:28

I'm the eldest of 3 and quite unattractive. My sister and I look very similar but she is much better looking. So many times people have said to me "She's a prettier version of you!" She's also very confident and strong and funny whereas I'm quiet and have zero confidence. I have really bad RBF too. Grin

My brother is very handsome but took a while to grow in to his looks. He always got called Lurch when he was a teenager! People are always surprised to find out we're related. He's very dark haired and olive skinned whereas my sister and I are very pale and light haired.

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