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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have three kids.  The first (boy) came out and everyone in the room (docs, nurses, etc) said wow, what a beautiful baby.  I guess he was but I didn't think about it.  I didn't know any better.  He is a gorgeous kid.  We get stopped all the time about it.  Told her should model, etc.

Second one came (girl) and not pretty at all.  A face only a mother could love.  Dad hoped she would grow into her looks.  She was not a pretty baby and we knew it.  At around 2 - 2 1/2 something changed and she turned pretty.  Unconventional but pretty.

Third (girl) came out beautiful and still is.  She is a head turner.  she has the best of both.[/quote]

As the youngest of girls, I want to just ask as a total stranger on a website (who, obviously, has an opinion of great matter, to you. haha!) that you never tell this story to your daughters. Seriously. Just don't. No matter how beautiful you think your older daughter turns out to be. No one wants to be told they're "unconventional". Your older daughter will know very quickly that she is not as conventionally pretty as her sister because people are assholes and will tell her. She'll see baby pictures and put it together. She'll get labeled the "smart one". My older sister is prettier than I am. Well, she was when we were kids. I grew up thinking that I was the "smart one". She once told me that if she were as confident in her intelligence or I was as confident in my looks we'd be the perfect woman. Other people telling her she was the pretty one or people telling me I was the smart one didn't make her feel beautiful or me feel smart.....it made me feel ugly and her feel stupid. [/quote]

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