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This is often the basis behind a [[Beautiful All Along]] or [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] event, when a character who is seen (rightly or wrongly) as unattractive is gussied up and made the Belle of the Ball. However, the main issue at hand is not how other characters see her, but the fact that she sees ''herself'' as unattractive. If the girl can realize her worth and attractiveness [[Just the Way You Are|without a makeover]], so much the better.
The [[Trope Namer]] is Thelma Possum from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110507020431/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00544.html Nip And Tuck]'', a webcomic by RH Junior. It takes a huge effort on the part of her beau and friends to convince her that she's beautiful and worth knowing.
Related to [[Hollywood Homely]], where we are ''informed'' that the girl is unattractive or ugly, and everyone in the show seems to believe it, but to us she seems quite pretty. With [[Suetiful All Along]], the author [[Informed Deformity|insists the character isn't pretty at the outset]], then lavishes complimentary descriptions on her the rest of the time. A girl who is fishing for compliments may ''pretend'' to feel this way, but she really doesn't. This can be [[Truth in Television]], if the girl in question has a poor self-image and/or unrealistic ideas of what constitutes beauty.
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