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[quote=Anonymous]Looks can be a double edged sword, especially for girls. I was an average/cute kid and then I moved to a new high school as a freshman. I had grown into my looks and was very pretty that year and my whole life experience changed. Suddenly, everyone was telling me I was “hot” and with that came a lot of expectations I didn’t understand. Basically I was put up on a pedestal and any move I made was the wrong one. I felt judged all the time, people called me a slut even though I was not sexually active, and basically everyone had their own idea of how I should conduct myself. I feel like it really stifled ,y development and made me obsessed with my looks and weight. I starved myself down to a stick and have always felt pressure to remain thin and pretty. I am now almost forty and attractive for my age, but not a model or anything. My daughter is 4 and stunningly pretty...strangers comment on her all the time. Both my kids are very attractive now because they have facial features that look great on kids. But they will likely just be moderately attractive later in life. I also worry they will struggle with weight, like their father. It is what it is, can’t control it really, but I don’t think being seen as the pretty person is always what it is cracked up to be. [/quote]

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