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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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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Film (Animated) ==
* Fiona of ''[[Shrek]]'' was cursed to become an ogress and later becomes one permanently after sharing a [[True
== Film (Live Action) ==
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* [[Audrey Hepburn]] thought she wasn't very attractive. Allegedly, she once said: "I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine".
* [[Meganekko]] [[Rachel Maddow]] said at a 2009 "New Yorker" Festival, "I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a [[Bifauxnen|dude]]. [[Hot Chick in A Badass Suit|I wear boring jackets]] . I have a [[Cleopatra Nose|big nose ]]. I have [[Boyish Short Hair|short hair ]]. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor."
* Male example: [[Benedict Cumberbatch]], who usually [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4343480/Sherlock-star-Benedict-Cumberbatch-Im-not-even-the-sexiest-man-in-my-own-flat.html describes his looks] in a [[Self
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