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Who's the most attractive/beautiful woman you've ever met? What were they like?

111 replies

peachesandcream2021 · 02/07/2023 22:28

A woman who I know well-ish, she is in early thirties now but has quite frankly won the genetic lottery. She is stared at and drooled over by everyone in the street (men and other women)

Oh to be her...

Who's the most beautiful/attractive woman you've ever met and why?

It doesn't necessarily have to be completely based on appearance either, maybe the way they carry themselves etc

I'm intrigued to know.

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Chocolateatanyop · 03/07/2023 17:09

A friend in my mid thirties and her mother - both beautiful - but both victimised by men - neither have had a relationship that had any longevity . My friend was more damaged than her mother though .

Giselletheunicorn · 03/07/2023 17:27

I met Princess Di when I was 8 (I use 'met' loosely. I gave her some flowers when she was on a royal walkabout. We didn't speak or anything.) But I remember thinking she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Very tall, very graceful, beautiful eyes and very humble and polite.

XelaM · 03/07/2023 17:44

Sadly the most beautiful girl I have ever met was also very smart and very nice, and as much as I tried to hate her I really couldn't. Some people have it all 😖

She was in my year at school - honestly the most natural beauty I have ever seen with huge blue eyes and shiny waist-long hair and a perfect figure. She was truly effortlessly stunning. She was also a straight A* student (top of the year) and a very nice person 🥶 Popular with everyone but also very nice to those who weren't. I really tried hard to find fault in her but she was just bloody perfect.

LMNT · 03/07/2023 17:50

My DD is stunning. She’s 21. She definitely got the best of me and DH.

Shes half Celtic half Italian and looks like a young Angelina Jolie. She’s got huge blue eyes and olive skin. She has pretty privilege… she never pays for anything, gets invited to amazing experiences and gets picked for things first.

However a she gets hit on constantly and is often harassed especially on public transport. It’s not all positive.

RiseYpres · 03/07/2023 17:53

The mother of one of DS1's friends. She is in her 50s like me and is Portuguese and has beautiful clear skin and glorious long hair. She intimidated me at first because she is so beautiful.

Then I was seated with her twice at 2 different kids parties where we had to stay (me because DS has anaphylactic allergies and she because her DS has another medical issue) and I discovered that she is also incredibly smart; compassionate; kind, thoughtful and funny. She is just a truly lovely person.

SmellyNelliey · 03/07/2023 18:31

My beautiful nana,she was absolutely beautiful on the outside she was also beauty deep with in too absolute lovely lippy nails alway painted,hair always done and tidy and most of all she dressed amazing! Lovely long dresses/skirts that suited her wide hips and small waist and small heels she was a real lady! Just beautiful! My grandad was very protective of nana as he knew the diamond he had!!(she was the best cook/Baker also)

Ratonastick · 03/07/2023 18:37

A woman I used to work with. It’s difficult to explain as she was quite pretty, short, rather overweight, clearly took care of her appearance but on paper she was a mortal. But there was something about her that was completely and utterly compelling. She just had a glow that made her the most fascinating and attractive woman in any room she walked into. It was impossible to take your eyes off her. She was in a very senior role in a very tough company and hard as nails, brilliantly clever and also incredibly kind and engaging and always had a smile on her face. I can’t explain it but I know other people who say the same about her. I don’t think she had the faintest idea how we all saw her.

peachesandcream2021 · 03/07/2023 18:41

I've read all of these! Thanks for your comments. although now I feel pretty frumpy and forgettable lol!

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YearsofYears · 03/07/2023 19:08

Have to agree with an earlier poster about Sophie Ellis Baxtor. She was incredibly beautiful, elfin and lovely when I met her through work recently.
A friend of mine is a model and she has a magnetic, fun personality too. She is stunning.
One of my sister in laws is gorgeous too. On top of this she has a certain elegance and confidence that I used to find quite enviable. I'm more used to it and confident in my own (normal, frumpy) skin these days.
While it must be wonderful to be beautiful I agree with the downsides mentioned above.

TimPat · 03/07/2023 20:06

I worked with a woman a couple of years back who was truly stunning, curvy/slim, perfect symmetrical features, dark hair and blue eyes and the most luminous smile and perfect teeth. She is also a really lovely person and very intelligent.
Her beauty is a very classic old school style, you could see her as a 1940's starlet, and she has a sister who's also a lovely person and very pretty but her looks are more in the current insta fashion of filled lips, big hair extensions etc, it's a really stark contrast.

HappiDaze · 03/07/2023 20:28

My teen DD is an absolute stunner with a fantastic personality and brains to boot

I wasn't to bad myself or even now but she takes my breath away sometimes

Stoic123 · 03/07/2023 20:34

The most drop dead gorgeous person I've seen in real life is Helena Christensen. This was mid 1990s in Chelsea. Was only for a few minutes but I was completely stunned. In real life she looked just like she does in the Wicked Game video.

bakewellbride · 03/07/2023 20:37

I used to hang out with YouTuber Hannah Michalak over ten years ago. She is stunning.

Sheselectric77 · 03/07/2023 20:55

I know everyone thinks their dc are beautiful but I have two dds and I have to honestly say that my youngest is breathtakingly beautiful. Of course both dds are beautiful to me but youngest is on another level.
Im not lying when I say she stops people in the street and gets many many compliments and comments. I didn’t even really think much about it until a recent weekend away when we were approached and I noticed people staring at her. It was sometimes a bit creepy and I did have to tell one person to back off as they had approached to talk to her. She was stood in the sun at one point and I turned round and looked at her to tell her something and she did literally take my breath away. It finally dawned on me how beautiful she was.
She has curly blonde hair with deep blue eyes, symmetrical features and glowing skin. She has lots of freckles perfectly placed. She is a dancer and we have been approached about modelling. We haven’t made a decision on that yet.

I don’t show my other dc I think this obviously. Me and dh are average on a good day, so dunno where she gets it.

I have seen a couple of strangers who I have done a double take when passing as they have been so beautiful. I can’t pinpoint anyone who I know or have worked with or celebrities that I would say are breathtakingly beautiful though.

Sheselectric77 · 03/07/2023 21:05

Sorry forgot to add what’s she’s like.
I think it is the way she carries herself even though she is still a child. She is very gentle but confident with it. She is kind natured and quite wise for her age. She is often off doing her own thing and away with the fairies and I think she must come across as quite interesting and aloof

MummyTo4BoysXXXX · 03/07/2023 21:07

jigglytip · 03/07/2023 11:13

I have seen beautiful people on the TV but never in real life, everyone is just so ordinary

half of them have had plastic surgery & botox 🤣 no wonder rest of us seem so ordinary to you! Ergh.

Happyfluffball · 04/07/2023 01:53

My auntie is super good looking. She was also a stunner when she was younger. My mum said she had boys running after her wherever she went. She is also super kind, bubbly and patient. I don't look anything like her unfortunately.

Giggorata · 04/07/2023 08:27

A woman at work, who was absolutely stunning, with an hourglass figure but very slim, with the tiniest waist and long legs. She had perfect even features and teeth, large eyes and waist length blonde hair, slightly wavy, good skin and a ready and dazzling smile. She moved gracefully and, as others have said, had that inner glow.
She was Barbie come to life, but in a good way, untouched by surgery, yet a flawless beauty.
People new to the place would stop in their tracks on sight of her.
She was (is) as lovely as she looked, a genuinely happy and delightful to everyone person. No one could possibly dislike her, even though we all looked like lumpen trolls next to her. 🙂

Noorandapples · 04/07/2023 08:41

A teacher at my kids school, she's absolutely beautiful and incredibly kind, warm, thoughtful, she's like Miss Honey from Matilda. She actually glows, it's unreal. She's not even slightly arrogant either, very down to earth!

Pleasemrstweedie · 04/07/2023 08:44

Pauline Black. Late sixties now, but still utterly stunning. It's the bone structure.

When you share space with her, you sense her before you see her, because she is just so compelling.

Makes me feel like a bag of nails every time.

BeginningToLookALotLike · 04/07/2023 11:37

Maggiesgirl · 03/07/2023 16:15

Back in the 80's waiting for a taxi in the early hours of the morning by Poole Marina, Yasmin Le Bon (wife of Simon) walked passed, tatty shorts tee shirt and hair tied up in a scrunchy, no make up.

Absolutely stunning.

I once saw Yasmin and Simon arrive at an event. The whole crowd just parted and went 'Oooh'. She was so much glossier and serene than the rest of us!

Deathraystare · 04/07/2023 17:36

A porter that worked with us a few times. She was from the Congo. Looked stunning - had a large booty (bigger than mine) but looked lovely

Taskno1 · 04/07/2023 19:38

I haven't seen someone truly perfect in real life. They might LOOK amazing from one angle, when the sun light is just right or the wind blowing their hair like a movie scene, but truly perfect from all sides and up close? No. It's like taking one good photo of a good angle and you catch it just right. Sometimes there is that moment when we pass strangers. But take another considered look maybe in different lighting and nah. I think most people just look at the body, hair and quick glance on face and then say hot or not. It's rude to truly look at a face because staring isn't appropriate.

Every time I thought I saw a breath taking person, I put my eyeglasses back on and take a good look and find that they too have imperfections.

Sophie Ellis Baxter I thought she was attractive but then her face is so big. She had a cold sore bleed live on TV and yep, she's a mere mortal, too. I also find her a bit ditzy and manic pixie dream girl.
Beauty is definitely subjective.

Tribblesarelovely · 04/07/2023 19:48

I went to the same school as George Best’s wife, Angie, ( she was years above me and didn’t even register my existence). She had a half sister who was equally beautiful, but dark and exotic looking. Oh boy, did they know it. Wouldn’t say they were snotty, but they definitely thought they were a cut above.
Actually, the most beautiful women I’ve seen are some of the many very old ladies I’ve nursed. There’s something about their gorgeous faces with all that life they’ve lived.

MissChanandlerB0NG · 04/07/2023 19:56

There was chef I worked with when I was about 20 (now 29). She was older, maybe late 50s early 60s. She was absolutely beautiful, like genuinely, breathtakingly beautiful. Oh how I aspire to look like her when I'm that age.

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