Here, a woman in her late 50s tells Alexa Tsoulis-Reay how her looks affected her life. Around eighth grade people started to tell me I was pretty. I was tall and willowy. I had a great figure and I never weighed more than pounds throughout my 20s.
I started modeling in high school and had waist length dark brown hair and brown eyes. When I do the whole makeup, eyelashes, high heels, gown look I am very intimidating. My looks definitely opened doors for me. I worked in PR and as a news producer, writer, reporter, and talk-show host. I did acting in daytime soaps, TV commercials, and theater. One of the worst things about being beautiful is that other women absolutely despise you. Women have made me cry my whole life. Throughout my life, competitive, attractive, wealthy, entitled women really hated me.
At my first job after college, my female colleagues conspired against me. They planted bottles of half-drunk booze on my desk so that it looked like I was drinking on the job. Two women were obsessed with me. They told my boss lies to get me fired. A spike in the hormone can trigger a fight-or-flight response, which could be why my brain hurtled toward intense irritation and embarrassment at beautiful strangers in situations where I was at a disadvantage: when I was sick, in the middle of moving, or watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta inside my own apartment.
Read: The charisma effect. Indeed, researchers have found that the adrenaline rush created by fear can make other people seem more attractive in the immediate aftermath. In hindsight, that happens to me even more frequently than the panic I had with my surgeon, but humans tend to have better recall for negative memories than positive ones. Even if hot people have the element of surprise on their side, that gets them only so far.
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