Gwyneth Paltrow is gorg in her new Photoshoot

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I find it fascinating that people are just utterly hell bent on calling this woman ugly.

It's feels very similar to the obsession with ripping down Kate Middleton and insisting she has an eating disorder.

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Can't get past the sitting on a yucky grocery store conveyor belt in underwear...ew!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it fascinating that people are just utterly hell bent on calling this woman ugly.

It's feels very similar to the obsession with ripping down Kate Middleton and insisting she has an eating disorder.

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I wonder if the negativity is more related to her personality vs. her looks.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh. Never understood the fascination with her. She's extremely average.

She's 5-9 and probably weights, what, 120 lbs? If that.

Whatever you want to say about her, she's most certainly not average.

I don't think Harper's Bazaar features many truly average women who are 5-4 and 150 lbs sitting on conveyor belt in their underwear. Now that would be a very different looking photo shoot.

NP, and I think GP is pretty though I'm not really a fan. I think what that poster meant is, if you saw GP walking around the grocery store in real life, you wouldn't bat an eye. And I guarantee they can make an a 5-4 150 pound woman look hot as hell if they used the same lightening and enhancement treatments they did in this shoot.

A tall, slim, pretty blond woman? I might notice her in a sea of dumpy DC types. Just keeping it real.

You might not like her, but she doesn't look like most people and she's better looking than most people by stereotypical Western standards. I just think it's silly to pretend otherwise. Again, call her a pretentious douche all you want. I agree.

Maybe compared to you she is Ms. Universe (just keepin it real). Below average looking people think average looking people are "gorg". Just keeping it real. But she is SO basic looking, which is fine. She may be on the cover of HB for being an A list actress, but Gwyneth is not known for her beauty.

Yikes, are you a dumpy DC type?

Lol. If only we could have this conversation face to face. That thought would not have crossed your mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Ehh. Never understood the fascination with her. She's extremely average.

She's 5-9 and probably weights, what, 120 lbs? If that.

Whatever you want to say about her, she's most certainly not average.

I don't think Harper's Bazaar features many truly average women who are 5-4 and 150 lbs sitting on conveyor belt in their underwear. Now that would be a very different looking photo shoot.

Did you know that tall and skinny people can be average too? She's average. Extremely, extremely ordinary. I can walk down Wisconsin Avenue right now and pick out 5 women in 10 minutes who would smoke her without the photoshop and money.

No, tall and skinny people are not average. Factually speaking. They might still be ugly or you might think they are ugly, but they are not a typical looking human when looking at a bell curve of how other humans look.

Or make an argument that tall and skinny people are ugly. I'd even go for that. But calling her average is just dumb.

Actually your argument is dumb. I don't think she's ugly because that is what I would have said. I was of speaking average in terms of beauty, not in terms of height and weight. Skinny and tall people can be average looking too. Everyone including yourself knew what I meant so I don't know why you even decided to chime in.

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PP again. PP I was responding to: you're the type to pick apart typos and I know my post has them. Typing on a phone.

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NP. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. GP isn't unattractive but is she THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER? FOr me? No. She's not beautiful to me, though she is admittedly attractive. Same with Kate Middleton, who really looks old to me for her age, but I have melanin so I'm used to looking at my mom and aunts and grandmothers who are really well-kept and other relatives who have babyfaces in their 30s, so that may skew my opinion about how old Kate looks.

But the sum up is, my beautiful (and that of many other people in this thread) is not yours. Why do you care?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. GP isn't unattractive but is she THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER? FOr me? No. She's not beautiful to me, though she is admittedly attractive. Same with Kate Middleton, who really looks old to me for her age, but I have melanin so I'm used to looking at my mom and aunts and grandmothers who are really well-kept and other relatives who have babyfaces in their 30s, so that may skew my opinion about how old Kate looks.

But the sum up is, my beautiful (and that of many other people in this thread) is not yours. Why do you care?

I agree with you. I'm the PP who said Gwyneth is average. The OP said she's gorgeous and I said I dont understand because she's average. Then the harpies say multiple times its dumb to call her average. I didn't say it's dumb to think she's gorgeous, so don't say it's dumb to think she's average!! I'm totally in the beauty is in the eye of the beholder camp! I can't make anyone think she's average and no one will ever convince me that she is gorgeous!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it fascinating that people are just utterly hell bent on calling this woman ugly.

It's feels very similar to the obsession with ripping down Kate Middleton and insisting she has an eating disorder.

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Maybe it IS the Kate M. poster!!

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Anonymous wrote:Can't get past the sitting on a yucky grocery store conveyor belt in underwear...ew!

I thought the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it fascinating that people are just utterly hell bent on calling this woman ugly.

It's feels very similar to the obsession with ripping down Kate Middleton and insisting she has an eating disorder.

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Maybe it IS the Kate M. poster!!

I might have missed it but I don't think anyone called her ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it fascinating that people are just utterly hell bent on calling this woman ugly.

It's feels very similar to the obsession with ripping down Kate Middleton and insisting she has an eating disorder.

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Maybe it IS the Kate M. poster!!

I might have missed it but I don't think anyone called her ugly.

Previous page. I believe the direct quote was " uuuuuuuuugly"

Also used... homely, gaunt, haggard.

And then the, she's average and ordinary lady, who is obsessed with insisting GP is average.

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The thing is: Gwyneth Paltrow does not really look "basic." I associate that more with the all-American cheerleader turn "tasteful" mom look: e.g. Kristen Bell (who seems awesome personally) or Lauren Conrad or Blake Lively, etc. Gwyneth is actually a little odd looking, which I find more interesting, even as I agree she's not really a conventional beauty. Very slim, very angular face (even as a young woman), stronger jawline, larger features, thin lips, etc. I find it weird that of all adjectives "basic" is the one used.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing is: Gwyneth Paltrow does not really look "basic." I associate that more with the all-American cheerleader turn "tasteful" mom look: e.g. Kristen Bell (who seems awesome personally) or Lauren Conrad or Blake Lively, etc. Gwyneth is actually a little odd looking, which I find more interesting, even as I agree she's not really a conventional beauty. Very slim, very angular face (even as a young woman), stronger jawline, larger features, thin lips, etc. I find it weird that of all adjectives "basic" is the one used.

I agree. This is why I love her. Her looks are more sophisticated than the average basic American woman.

Lauren Conrad is the definition of basic.