How can good looking children have not particularly good looking parents?

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Genuine question, just curious if anyone else has noticed this.

DH is very conventionally attractive. His two sisters are also very pretty and both modelled when they were younger. DH has been scouted too but wasn’t interested.

His parents are lovely people, but neither is what you’d call conventionally attractive. Even looking at photos of them when they were younger, you wouldn’t say either was particularly good looking.

I know genetics is a lottery but it seems quite remarkable that all three children turned out good looking. They’re all genetically related. Has anyone else come across this?

It’s ancestral I think - we’ve all probably got all sorts in our ancestry really.

This made me laugh - I recently met a family with four kids and that is how I feel about them - you’re being looked at by four of exactly the same face 🤣

What did they look like as children? You say they aren't attractive now, but without all of the statistics and history; you won't really have a definitive answer.

Genetics, diet, economy, climates people live in etc all play a part.

Do you have children, OP? Would you consider yourself attractive?

The thread has an element of bragging and is a bit unfair, biased, it's making a sweeping statement that your husband's situation will apply to families across the globe, and a little disturbing talking about 'attractive children'.

Ha same with my son - he’s got my colouring ( and sadly thin fine fair ish hair ) but my Hs strong features - he looks like an exact mix of both of us

I always thought she was the prettiest Spice Girl when younger....

30 odd years ago I was at ante natal clinic waiting for my check up. Sitting near me were a couple, and I know I will get my arse flamed for saying this but this couple were the ugliest looking I had ever seen. They had a little toddler girl with them who was one of the loveliest little girls I have ever come across. She was just beautiful.
I did wonder if she was just being looked after for the day and they werent her actual parents 🙄

Oh no! Ginger, Scary and Baby were all far prettier!

I think genetics are fascinating. My daughter is very pretty, very slim and graceful and long-limbed. She strongly resembles her bio mother (my ex-partner), her maternal cousin (male), her aunt and her grandmother. Her aunt is also conventionally very pretty, but her grandmother absolutely isn't. Oddly, you can see the resemblance despite everyone in the family noticing how different the same features look on different people!

My brother and his wife have three children - all theirs! - and they all three look totally different from each other. You would never pick them out of a group and say they were siblings. Yet, each of them looks recognisably like one or other parent, or both parents.

I've also got a friend whose twin daughters were that classic case of 'black baby, white baby' when they were small: they were so polarised. It's less obvious now, but you still would tend to assume they weren't related at all.

All the odd looking kids I know turned into odd looking adults 😂

Patrick Swayze and his brother are a good example of when a few mm makes a difference. Same features, different outcome.

Eh? oP is talking about her adult husband. Where do you get childlike from? Did you even read her post.

It's not strange at all, in fact it's quite common. She's just not photogenic. The opposite is also true. Some of the most stunning photographic models are quite ordinary looking in the flesh!

I guess that proves the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I always thought Posh was the prettiest (and so did David by the looks of it :).
I don't necessarily think shes the prettiest now, but back in the day she was the one I wanted to look like lol

I am still my Dad’s child even though I’m in my 50s.

Reading comprehension matters.

Paul's daughter with Heather looks like a female Paul

I worked in a social services nursery and there were some truly beautiful children where the parents were proper ugly