Much to this cranky chick's chagrin, Mary Kate Olsen is on the cover of this month's Elle magazine. I find this annoying for many, many reasons, but chief among them is the insistence on pretending that this young woman and her twin sister are beautiful. They are not.
They were ugly babies. They were funny-looking little girls. And they are unattractive adults. (I suspect that the occasional introduction of...oh...I don't know...maybe a SANDWICH? might help make them less weird-looking, but that's hardly the point.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all actresses MUST be gorgeous. But why are we pretending that unattractive people are not just attractive, but BEAUTIFUL? Because they're famous and rich. And that just AIN'T ENOUGH.
Jolie-Laide is a French phrase meaning "pretty-ugly" which is used for women who are unconventionally pretty (read: Ahn Duong or Sarah Jessica Parker).
For the record, Mary Kate is not jolie-laide. She's just plain old laide. And the sooner we stop pretending, the better off we'll be.
1 comment:
I didn't think MK and Ashley were ugly kids, but I do think she looks like a monkey in this cover. Very fug.
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