Does Samantha Brick really think she’s beautiful or was it all money-making play to be famous?

[Theboredpanda]

A bit late to the party on this one I know, but I’ve only just heard of Samantha Brick after watching a short documentary about her. I can’t believe she truly thinks she’s beautiful to the extent that it’s been “a curse” throughout her life, men chat her up wherever she goes, and women hate her for it! To me she looks like a very average/basic looking woman. There is nothing particularly attractive about her face at all. She’s not ugly, but I wouldn’t describe her as attractive or pretty, she’s just plain looking. Am I missing something? Or does she secretly know she’s not remotely beautiful and has said all this stuff to be controversial in order to make money and become famous?

its meant to be tongue in cheek

I think that was part of the point. That she’s just a normal nice looking woman. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to create the same outrage.

She's a journalist so take everything she says with a pinch of salt!
I remember reading the original article about the curse of her beauty and thinking she was just saying it as a ploy to get people talking or even wound up.

She is the Poundland version of Private Eye’s spoof columnist Polly Filler. People like SB just write any old self-absorbed and unaware whinge about their privilege or bilge that will wind people up and bring clicks, comments and payment and hopefully, if they can lock onto a theme, return business.

When I see an article of the type Samantha Brick wrote I always feel that the articles are designed to try and get women snarling at each other which ultimately is unhelpful and regressive (though lucrative for the Daily Mail etc).

I thought she did it knowingly for the clocks and trolling in order to fund IVF?

I don't think it hurt anyone but her. Far worse ways to make money.

I could never really understand the outrage to be honest. Sure it isn't exactly humble but there have been far more arrogant things written by men. I don't think you can judge someone's attractiveness by photos or on TV. She had a lovely figure and pleasant face and I think it is ok for women to say that they believe they are attractive.

It isn't something I have ever said about myself but good luck to her.

Yeah I don’t understand the level of outrage either - if it was all a ploy for money/attention she clearly knew what she was doing cos it certainly got attention. So much outrage there was a documentary made about it! I’m not outraged, I just find it laughable. I don’t think it’s ok for women or men to proclaim they think they are so attractive that it’s made their life difficult and all other women hate them because of it, when it’s so blatantly untrue. I think that’s where the outrage came from. If she just said she thought she was beautiful and stopped there then fine, great to see a woman with so much confidence. But to suggest everyone’s jealous of her, men are constantly falling at her feet, is just ridiculous and not believable for a woman who looks like that. Maybe if she was Margot Robbie or Megan Fox or something it’d be believable. Also, her personality doesn’t shine through and make her beautiful either..she’s a trad wife who believes all women are jealous of her!

That name is a blast from the past. I remember her also saying she was married to a big hunk, so I think a ladle of salt should be taken with all her comments.

It did what it was supposed to do, right - got her started in print journalism? I'd never heard of her before that piece; don't think many people had.

Or maybe she really just doesn't know that any woman who isn't actually ugly enough to scare small children gets pestered in public by men sometimes? Or that all women suffer sexism sometimes, irrespective of appearance?

And maybe she really hasn't noticed that her supposed catch of a husband is a dead ringer for Asterix...

She looks pretty to me and he looks quite manly.

I mean, the reaction back then was extreme but now it seems a mild ploy in comparison to the extreme attention seeking/click bait we see these days.

Far be it from me to cast aspersions, but with that moustache he looked like he was in a Village People tribute act.