Why do beautiful people have ugly babies?

[Anonymous]

David Bowie and Iman's daughter is going to be stunning.

I'm another who disagrees with the whole "mixed babies are so purteeeeeeeeee" line. I grew up with all kinds of mixed kids, and the ones with plain-to-ugly parents were plain to ugly themselves.

My own mixed Asian/White kids are good looking because both sides of the family have a lot of beauties. The girl was not an attractive baby--think baby orangutan meets troll doll. The boy has always been freakishly beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On average they don't have ugly babies, but they don't have babies (nor adult children) as gorgeous as themselves. It's because of regression to average. It is unlikely that the very rare combination of genes that made them very attractive will happen again, even though the many of the same genes are there. So their children will be closer to average though, in most cases, still above average. You can see that children of Hollywood couples are rarely ugly but rarely as gorgeous as their parents.

I like your theory.

I remember this-regression to the mean. Happens with a lot of things.

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Anonymous wrote:Brad and Angie's bio kids will probably be stunningly beautiful adults. Same with Hallie Berry's daughter.

I have twins the same age as theirs, and mine are so much cuter. I am sure theirs will grow up to be really attractive though.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd rather be an ugly baby than an ugly adult. If the parents are hot, then when the features settle out, I would think the baby would be hot in later life.

I know a guy who looks like Tom Cruise. His baby has his Tom Cruise nose. That nose on a baby is a BEAK, I tell you and he was the ugliest baby I've ever seen. He now at 12, is getting hot like daddy.

You've noticed the 12 year old is getting hot like daddy? Eww.

[Anonymous]

These kids are ugly because JLO is not pretty at all, and Marc Anthony is totally plain.........so it is a simple result of ADN .. they are like their parents....who can expect something different?

On the other hand, have you seen Marc Anthony´s Kids from his previous beautiful wife Dayanara Torres (ex Miss Puerto Rico)........Cristian and Ryan are very handsome...they look like their mother

[Anonymous]

Jessica Lange's and Sam Snepard's kids are very plain.

[Anonymous]

You guys are all disgusting individuals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugly babies turn into cute toddlers.

+1 I have also seen very unattractive parents produce beautiful children.

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Anonymous wrote:Cute kids/babies don't necessarily translate to cute adults, especially for men. I had a classmate who was the cutest young schoolkid you'd ever seen -- big head, huge eyes, small features. He ended up looking kind of like a stocky Elijah Wood with dishwater colored hair. A decent portion of adult beauty is body shape, hair, clear skin, facial bone structure, and you either can't tell this with a baby or can't make any meaningful distinctions because most babies have smooth skin, button noses, and not much hair.

This sounds like he reached his peak during his elementary schools years. I would like to think I have not peaked yet. It's better to have your best years ahead of you.

[Anonymous]

My friend is model like gorgeous but has average looking kids who look more like their dad (Who is certainly not model attractive.). Personally, I was a gorgeous kid, curly, long, dark hair, olive skin, bright eyes and generally cute. Now? I am ugly. Hair is fine and lifeless, very pale skin, big nose etc etc. Attractive kids don't always stay that way, I am proof of that.

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Anonymous wrote:On average they don't have ugly babies, but they don't have babies (nor adult children) as gorgeous as themselves. It's because of regression to average. It is unlikely that the very rare combination of genes that made them very attractive will happen again, even though the many of the same genes are there. So their children will be closer to average though, in most cases, still above average. You can see that children of Hollywood couples are rarely ugly but rarely as gorgeous as their parents.

This exactly. Except for Cindy Crawfords daughter.

[Anonymous]

I have known ugly babies who turned out to be beautiful, very attractive adults. and gorgeous babies who turned out to be pretty unattractive or just plain ugly. One of the most stunning little girls I one knew-is now an attractive adult, but nothing to write home about. Her problem is that she has bitchy resting face now, and she is actually a bitch-nothing pretty or attractive about that.

A very funny looking baby I knew (bordering on ugly), is not only very pretty now, she has a kind, beautiful smile and sweet kind soul. Even if shaded not turn out to be quite attractive, her kind sweet nature makes he gorgeous nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

Angelina and Brad got lucky-they are both stunning and their 3 bio kids are stunning too!

[Anonymous]

Prince Charles is as ugly as they come, his kids tuned out to be pretty good looking-even Harry, who was equally as ugly for a long time. They were lucky to get Diana's genes!

[Anonymous]

We didn't.