Carrie Bradshaw was not good looking enough for her dating life

[Anonymous]

If memory serves, in real life the actress also dated really good looking guys. Maybe she has phenomenal charisma? But she’s definitely got something

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Anonymous wrote:I just really don't like when she wears inner eyelid eyeliner plus rosey smokey eye. It's very unattractive look for her. She should do white inner eyelid eyeliner and ditch smokey eye completely.

However, despite her schnaz, she has other beautiful features. Blue eyes, gorgeous mouth, hair, body, and style sense. That overall makes her pretty.

You didn't like her makeup style in the 90s? OK

[Anonymous]

Yeah she dated Robert Downey Junior among others.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great bod
Great style
Great personality.
Quirky.and endearing in the best possible way.
The character.does not call.for a great.beauty.

She’s supposed to be an up and coming socialite. Do you know any socialites that are ugly?

She is not ugly

[Anonymous]

Fairly reflective of a certain subset of well-off professional women in NYC during that era. They absolutely address this in the show though -- they never, ever present these women as the prettiest women around. It is a running theme of the show that part of the reason dating in NY sucks so much is that the city is full of actual models and aspiring actresses and if all a decent looking guy with money (or an ugly dude with more money) cares about is looks, he can find an absolutely stunning woman pretty easily.

But the show is also about conversation and connection and the point about these women is the idea that they are actually interesting. That Carrie and Miranda are smart and have ideas and sense of humor and are fun to talk to. And Samantha maybe isn't an intellectual, but she's really smart about business and loooooves sex and is up for everything and also wickedly smart. Charlotte was the prettiest of the four but not model pretty, and also the least interesting. And it's not surprising that she also has the least interesting and in some ways successful love life of any of them. Yes, she marries rich twice, but her first husband is an absolute nightmare. And her second is a great guy but not good looking AND she has to convert to judaism to get him. It's different than in the major relationships the other women have where they get to call a lot of the shots, because their power in the relationship is not just based on being marriage material -- they have personalities that some men actually fall for and want to be around.

A man who just wants a great beauty can find one. And another one, and another one. If he's rich enough, there is no end to the number of gorgeous women who will throw themselves at his feet. And he'll also never really be satisfied with any of them if the attraction is just based on looks because, again, why not try another variety. But a woman who is pretty enough but also really fun to talk to and hang out with -- that's someone you might stick around for. That's someone you might turn to when you get bored with dating yet another 28 year old model or society girl or whatever.

There are entire episodes based around the fact that these women are not that pretty. The one where Miranda dates a "modeler". The one where Carrie falls flat on her face in that runway show where she's a good two feet shorter than everyone else. The "Forty & Fabulous?" ep. Samantha and her plastic surgeries. And so on. The show never wanted to make you think these were gorgeous women or the the show took place in a parallel universe where they were gorgeous. The idea was that these were great women, and their looks were a component of that but not the whole package.

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Anonymous wrote:She has striking features. That's different from beautiful. And a hot body.

Plus 1

[Anonymous]

If she could land JFK Jr in real life she could snag the dudes on that show.

[Anonymous]

She is sinewy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she could land JFK Jr in real life she could snag the dudes on that show.

Exactly. This show was definitely not real life but it strived to make the characters somewhat “real”. Not everyone is model attractive and those women weren’t pretending to be models.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree, OP. Such a strange show, with such strange ugly people.

Davis and Cattrall were gorgeous.

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Anonymous wrote:She looks like a lot of my Jewish relatives from NY. They all have cute, rich husbands.

Oy. Thank god I’m Sephardic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairly reflective of a certain subset of well-off professional women in NYC during that era. They absolutely address this in the show though -- they never, ever present these women as the prettiest women around. It is a running theme of the show that part of the reason dating in NY sucks so much is that the city is full of actual models and aspiring actresses and if all a decent looking guy with money (or an ugly dude with more money) cares about is looks, he can find an absolutely stunning woman pretty easily.

But the show is also about conversation and connection and the point about these women is the idea that they are actually interesting. That Carrie and Miranda are smart and have ideas and sense of humor and are fun to talk to. And Samantha maybe isn't an intellectual, but she's really smart about business and loooooves sex and is up for everything and also wickedly smart. Charlotte was the prettiest of the four but not model pretty, and also the least interesting. And it's not surprising that she also has the least interesting and in some ways successful love life of any of them. Yes, she marries rich twice, but her first husband is an absolute nightmare. And her second is a great guy but not good looking AND she has to convert to judaism to get him. It's different than in the major relationships the other women have where they get to call a lot of the shots, because their power in the relationship is not just based on being marriage material -- they have personalities that some men actually fall for and want to be around.

A man who just wants a great beauty can find one. And another one, and another one. If he's rich enough, there is no end to the number of gorgeous women who will throw themselves at his feet. And he'll also never really be satisfied with any of them if the attraction is just based on looks because, again, why not try another variety. But a woman who is pretty enough but also really fun to talk to and hang out with -- that's someone you might stick around for. That's someone you might turn to when you get bored with dating yet another 28 year old model or society girl or whatever.

There are entire episodes based around the fact that these women are not that pretty. The one where Miranda dates a "modeler". The one where Carrie falls flat on her face in that runway show where she's a good two feet shorter than everyone else. The "Forty & Fabulous?" ep. Samantha and her plastic surgeries. And so on. The show never wanted to make you think these were gorgeous women or the the show took place in a parallel universe where they were gorgeous. The idea was that these were great women, and their looks were a component of that but not the whole package.

I agree. They were supposed to be your typical “well maintained and well dressed” professional nyc women. Not naturally classic beauties but multidimensional women who were interested in style and making the most of what they have

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she could land JFK Jr in real life she could snag the dudes on that show.

Exactly. This show was definitely not real life but it strived to make the characters somewhat “real”. Not everyone is model attractive and those women weren’t pretending to be models.

I was going to mention the JFK connection too. My husband and I have had discussions about SJP before because he think she’s absolutely hideous while I would have given my right arm to look like her back in the day. All of most popular girls in HS and post college had a SJP thing about them. And, I agree with the other posters who mentioned the Jewish New Yorker ideal. Both my husband and I are Jewish btw… he prefers the softer, dark and curly haired rounder type with bigger boobs. Guess that’s how I landed him

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree, OP. Such a strange show, with such strange ugly people.

Davis and Cattrall were gorgeous.

I think Catrall was pretty and very sexy.
Davis was your basic attractive woman, I guess, but I always found her bland and a bit “off”. Maybe a bit cross-eyed or something.

[Anonymous]

Confidence is more attractive and she has it in loads