Western Society's Unrealistic Images of Beauty

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Popinjay posted a link to a site featuring some un-flattering, untouched, real-life photos of Britney Spears.
Some guys seemed surprised. I'm guessing that those who are surprised are either not married, or didn't grow up with sisters in the house. Wake up you guys! This is how women really look underneath the makeup. You've been duped by professional photographers, makeup artists, airbrush specialists, and computer enhancement technology.

Here are a few more celebrities caught off guard:

Christina Applegate


Pamela Anderson


Yasmine Bleeth




Goldie Hawn


Nick Nolte


With Makeup


Without


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[andyfox]

My favorite picture was your avatar. I once sat next to Groucho at a deli here in L.A. and when the waitress asked him, "Do you want a fork?" he replied, "Your place or mine?"

[sam h]

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I once sat next to Groucho at a deli here in L.A

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Man, you ARE old.

[Vince Young]

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This is how women really look underneath the makeup.

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No, this is how women really look when:

1) They are photographed a terrible angle
2) Their faces are contorted due to doing something like squinting
3) They've been doing drugs all day
4) They are old and ugly, with or without makeup
5) They are not women

[dsm]

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I once sat next to Groucho at a deli here in L.A.

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I'm guessing he looked more like this at the time:



This is a great photo:



Here's an excerpt from Harpo's book Harpo Speaks:

"Minnie, bless her heart, gave me a genuine one-dollar Ingersoll watch. The inevitable happened. Three days after my bar mitzvah, my new watch was missing.

I was pretty damn sore. A present was not the same as something you hustled. I tracked down Chico to a craps game and asked him about the missing watch. He handed me a pawn ticket. I gave the ticket to Minnie and she reclaimed the watch for me. Then a brilliant idea occurred to me. I would make my watch Chico-Proof, so that he could not possibly hock it again. I removed the hands.

Now the watch was mine forever. I wound it faithfully each morning and carried it with me at all times. When I wanted to know what time it was I looked at the Ehret Brewery clock and held my watch to my ear. It ran like a charm, and it's ticking was a constant reminder that I had, for once, outsmarted Chico..."

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[The Dude]

Man, talk about a guy who was in the wrong generation. I wish Groucho were still around. Every old clip I see of that guy makes me laugh.

[scotty34]

You can't judge a person's beauty by a photo. There are too many variables that can make them look worse at any given instant. Look through your old yearbooks and stuff like that. There are many girls who I consider gorgeous, whose pictures in the yearbook do them no justice at all. And this is even WITH makeup and a lot of prep.

[WTF]

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No, this is how women really look when:

1) They are photographed a terrible angle
2) Their faces are contorted due to doing something like squinting

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Yeah, you're probably right. I can see how squinting or the wrong angle could change somebody from looking like this one minute...


...to looking like this the next:

[jaxUp]

the Nick Nolte photograph made me laugh for some reason. So misplaced.

[Jack of Arcades]

The key is that Pamela Anderson is neither a goddess of beauty nor a horribly mishapen ogre. She is somewhere in the middle.

These photos do not prove that celebrities are ugly. They prove that celebrities don't always look amazing and can have their bad days, too.