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Woman who are prettier than you !

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iamme43 · 03/04/2012 08:44

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/There-downsides-looking-pretty-Why-women-hate-beautiful.html

I could not even finish reading the article, what a prat.

But the question is do you like your friends to be not as pretty as you?

I can't say I have ever given it any thought.

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CharlotteBronteSaurus · 03/04/2012 11:05

how bizarre
i have several really attractive friends, who are amazing company, and so have more female friends than you can shake a stick at
has she ever even considered that it may be something other than her looks that's the barrier to female friendship?

FruitShootsAndHeaves · 03/04/2012 11:24

I would love someone to randomly give me a bottle of champagne...I don't even like champagne!

I often think how great it would be to be so beautiful that people would stop and look when I walked past Grin

droves · 03/04/2012 11:32

I once had a random bloke stop me in the street and ask me to marry him .
Was st enoughs sq in Glasgow , summer of '94 .

Don't think it was my "stunning good looks" ....more like he was a big issue seller and trying to get me to laugh so I'd buy a big issue.

Grin

< wipes tear ,crying with laughter at the memory>

Could have just been like an impulse advert , apart from he hadn't washed for a week !

BonnieBumble · 03/04/2012 11:37

She is very average looking.

OrmIrian · 03/04/2012 11:39

I'd not have any friends if I only befriended people who are uglier than me Grin

MummyBarrow · 03/04/2012 11:52

I felt the need to blog about her

www.mummybarrow.com/2012/04/samantha-brick-a-word-please-love/

droves · 03/04/2012 12:09

Mummybarrow ...I think I lurves you

duchesse · 03/04/2012 12:13

I am utterly baffled by that article. What exactly is the point of it?

duchesse · 03/04/2012 12:15

I think it might actually be made-up bollocks.

bronze · 03/04/2012 12:30

She's so gorgeous I don't want to be her friend
At least I think that's the reason I don't want to be her friend

JarethTheGoblinKing · 03/04/2012 12:33

Bottles of champagne? Amateur. Someone bought be a whole house once. Grin

Greythorne · 03/04/2012 13:06

Look, this is the DM. Their objective is to getpeople to click onto their site. Threads like this are the absolute best way to get people clicking on the DM.

Their agenda is anti-women as a default.

They brief Samantha Brick to come up with drivel that gets people going....my husband will divorce me if I am fat, I flirt to get to the top, I am too pretty.

She almost certainly does not believe ay of the drivel she writes, it is just a way to get people riled up and talking about it.

She is almost certainly chuffed to bits by this thread. She probably gets a bonus if her pieces kick off on MN.

Just sayin.

susiedaisy · 03/04/2012 13:09

The daily fail seems to mention mumsnet on a weekly basis taking their research from here at times, funny I don't remember being paid to take part in this researchGrin

weeper · 03/04/2012 13:23

What Greythorne said.

I think a commissioning editor on the Daily Mail has got in touch and asked her to write this because she's pretty-but-average looking, and she's got form for writing this sort of guff. Or she may well have approached them. But each side will have been very well aware that she's no stunner, so they'll have had a good idea of the kind of reaction this article would get.

They will have paid her VERY WELL to write this, so she probably thinks, 'this is how I make my living, I don't care if it's all a load of guff.' Maybe she knows her real friends will know she only said it for the £££. Maybe she doesn't care who she pisses off? Look at Liz Jones, she's done VERY WELL out of this kind of shit.

And the DM will know how much people will LOVE frothing over this kind of thing. And being all indignant that she's really nothing special. Last time I looked there was more than 1,000 comments. They are evil, but at the same time, they are very good at what they do!

LetsKateWin · 03/04/2012 14:01

This article has almost 3000 comments now. I think you've hit the nail on the head weeper. I think she looked much better before her husband started dressing her ...but as we all know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

Ryoko · 03/04/2012 16:20

I can't even finish reading that self absorbed trash, get over yourself woman, you look pretty average and normal to me, perhaps she gets free shit because she is a journalist? just a thought.

When I was a little girl a man gave me a bunch of balloons claiming I was the prettiest girl he'd see, I have never had to buy my own drink in a bar, I've been given gifts from people on the Job Centre schemes and people at work, my friend once complained to me about the fact she didn't like walking down the street with me because she didn't like the way men looked at me, it made her feel uncomfortable.
Shall I declare myself to be gods gift to the world?.

Anyway I think I look like a sack of shit, but others don't seem to think so, I've regularly had friends who I think are thinner and prettier then me who think I'm better looking and have the better body then them. bottom line is most woman are insecure about their looks thanks to the endless ridiculing media, nagging us into doubting ourselves.

That woman just has a head the size of a melon, female friends hate her because she is so up her own arse plain and simple.

ScarlettAlexandra · 04/04/2012 07:58

omg there's another article now after all the comments yesterday saying "see i was right you do all hate me cause I'm pretty" good lord she needs her head read. millions of tweets posts etc and she still doesn't get it.

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iamme43 · 04/04/2012 08:03

I saw todays article and my only disappointment was that mumnets was not mentioned. And after all the hard work we put in... Smile

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Gigondas · 04/04/2012 08:25

Leaving aside journalistic exaggeration, why is she surprised? Ok the scale of it is bigger than maybe she saw(but come on - mail is well read and has form for this type of thing with jan moir, liz jones ) but it was always going to cause a reaction .

fedupofnamechanging · 04/04/2012 08:28

dailymail.co.uk

EasterBummy · 04/04/2012 08:33

I won't read the article, read enough comments to get the jist, but to answer your question, I look at personality first. If the person is nice I don't care what they look like. I've had 'pretty' friends in the past and they always tried to make a pass at DH so that scarred me abit. But I've learnt people to avoid and those to keep.
Unless you're shallow looks have nothing to do with friendship.

MustControlFistOfDeath · 04/04/2012 08:46

She works out - even when she doesn't feel like it - she doesn't drink, she doesn't smoke... and rarely does she succumb to chocolate

...and she wonders why she has no friends Confused

Snakeonaplane · 04/04/2012 09:08

I'd say this is why she has no friends, sorry if it's already been linked.

Loving the twitter feed from la_brick it's hilarious.

KisMittz · 04/04/2012 09:17

She is empty, emotionally vacuous, and the trophies she cites as making her someone to be admired just reinforce that.

My best friends is a cleaner, and has more character, warmth and depth of personality that a hair on this woman's head. And her assertions that all these opinions are based on jealousy are really Confused.
I truly do not see her as an attractive woman, (on any level). I can't decide if it is a shame, or if she really is as vile as she portrays.