I’ve said it before on here and actually said it quite recently, but sometimes, I’m glad I was an unattractive teenager. I was smiling at @Tom’s list of typical features of a 19yo. Not this guy!
I agree though, that generally, 19yos just look better. Both sexes. I was more of a head turner in my early-mid twenties, but never really pretty. It’s something I’ve never experienced, so I’ll never miss it 🤷♀️.
My mum was amazing looking. Like, the most beautiful young woman in our home town, and she ended up very depressed in later life. I think too much was pinned on how beautiful she was, (shocker - she was a woman after all 
), and actually, that can be a massive burden. Then it must feel awful, like the end of the world, when one’s looks, inevitably fade.
When women sometimes complain about becoming ‘invisible’ in later life, I just think, invisible sounds rather lovely. I got some negative attention as a teenager. Nasty, bullying, teenaged boys who I sadly wasn’t hot enough for; not that I was seeking their attention. I was minding my own business, but even that’s offensive when you are a woman, you aren’t attractive and you happen to be in the same vicinity of some men. I mean, how dare I 
?
When I did get a lot of, (positive? Meh, not that I’d call it positive, but they fancied me basically - sarcastic yay ), male attention, in my twenties, it just felt like a burden. I simply don’t and didn’t want it. Maybe it’s because, as an (unattractive) teen, any male attention I got, except from my lovely male friends, was so negative. I had a pretty good window, early on, into what some women experience for the first time in their middle age. Some men simply don’t give a fuck about women, unless they want to have sex with them or bully them. Or sometimes both! I’m glad I discovered this early on. I have a low opinion of this particular sort of man as a result.