You are so right. 25 or so years ago just looking at her portrayal as Princess Leia Organa caused this one's thoughts to drift dangerously into the dark side of the force.
The complainers in this thread - I'm thinking that most of us would have risked the ire of Lord Vader just to meet with the Princess. That is, unless you were deeply, and spiritually connected to your same sex partner...!
Carrie was a basket case later in life and didn't keep her looks for very long, so a lot of people diss her. At her best, though, she was quite beautiful. In this article she's dealing with the same problem that a lot of celebrities do. You just don't look the same at fifty as you did at nineteen. For most of us, it's a little bit of a problem, but we don't have to look at moving images of ourselves when we were young or deal with the expectations of people who see us and expect us to look like we did thirty years ago.
I've always thought about Sandra Dee in that regard. She was fifty years old and people were expecting to meet Gidget.