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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an ugly kid who grew up to be model pretty as a teen. You really never know. I'm sure the reverse is often true. Make girls' lives about other accomplishments. [/quote]

This.  I know an older woman who's youngest daughter was apparently a very awkward looking child.  She says she used to go out of her way to tell her how beautiful she was to her, because she knew she might not hear it much from elsewhere.  As it turned out, she grew up to be quite attractive, but her mother wasn't sure which way it would go.  And everyone deserves to feel that they are beautiful to someone, believe me.  I had a model pretty sister, and I always knew I was the less attractive one.  Also didn't help to have a mother who occasionally said things like, "no one will pay attention to how smart you are [I was always top of my class] if you are fat and unattractive"...yeah, that was healthy.

But when DH first met my sister he honestly didn't understand what anyone saw in her.  Before I had ever told him about her actually having had modeled as a child, he made a comment about how I must have been the pretty one growing up.  Not that I want people to think my sister's ugly, but it was truly the first time I had ever thought I might be attractive, like at all.  So please just remind your DD that she is attractive in her own way, and that she is beautiful to you.  Not everyone is a future model, but that doesn't make them universally unattractive.[/quote]

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