[Dont Mention the War]

The family founders, in 18th-century Frankfurt, were supremely ugly, but several generations later, after successive marriages to supremely beautiful women, the men in the family were indistinguishable from movie stars.

This isn't exactly something that buttresses Seligman's already-fishy argument. There are a number of web sites (to say nothing of the supermarket tabloids like the Enquirer and Star) that routinely publish photos of movie and TV stars without the $1000 makeup jobs or professionally-Photoshopped pictures, and suffice it to say that a very large number of them are no more attractive in real life than anyone else you might pick randomly off the street ... and a sizable minority are downright unappealing.

[najida]

I had a friend in college who was a model.

She was also like the perfect Southern Belle (perfect hair, manicures etc). Men would swoon at her feet. But if you ever saw her fresh outta the shower, she was as plain as a white rabbit.