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UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 02:16 PM Apr 2013

So confusing!1 Is Gwyneth "most hated" or "World's Most Beautiful Woman"?!1

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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/04/gwyneth-paltrow-most-beautiful

[font size=5]Gwyneth Paltrow Goes from “Most Hated Celebrity” to “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in About a Week[/font]

In the space of eight days, Oscar winner, self-appointed lifestyle guru, and Beyoncé-song consultant Gwyneth Paltrow has catapulted herself from Star magazine’s Most Hated Celebrity (More Hated Than Chris Brown Edition) to People’s Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Granted the two categories are not mutually exclusive—a celebrity can be considered physically beautiful at the same time as she’s perceived to be a spiritual landfill by spiritually questionable Star readers—but still, progress! (In our defense, we argued that it was reprehensible to give Paltrow the former title last week.) Making the victory even sweeter is the fact that Paltrow succeeds her friend Beyoncé as this year’s title-holder.

People cornered the supermarket-tabloid market on world-beauty assessment in 1990, when the magazine discovered well-established movie star Michelle Pfeiffer and controversially named her the inaugural World’s Most Beautiful Woman. Other less-beautiful-than-Gwyneth-Paltrow beautiful women this year include Kerry Washington, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, and Halle Berry.

As for the World’s Most Beautiful Woman’s maintenance routine, Paltrow downplays her natural appeal in the accompanying People blurb:

“Around the house, I’m in jeans and a T-shirt. I don’t really wear makeup. That’s what (my family is) used to,” she says. As for her husband, Chris Martin, “He’ll make a joke about it. If I’ve gotten fully dressed up, he’ll be like, ‘Oh, wow! You’re Gwyneth Paltrow!’ Because he’s used to seeing me in like baggy shorts and frizzy hair.”

As for how she responded to the title, Paltrow tells the magazine in a video outtake, “I honestly thought that someone was playing a joke on me. I had to read the e-mail three times. . . I (thought) I had developed dyslexia.” Testing her critics, she maintains a positive outlook on how the cover may affect her image: “I think people feel really happy for you when you say you are going to be in the issue.”

Star blip aside, this has been a banner month for Paltrow. Aside from being named the above, her second cookbook, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.

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So confusing!1 Is Gwyneth "most hated" or "World's Most Beautiful Woman"?!1 (Original Post) UTUSN Apr 2013 OP
I don't have anything against Gwyneth particularly, Blue_In_AK Apr 2013 #1
Most hated has my vote. And who in the world called her Most Beautiful? nt raccoon Apr 2013 #2
Ms Paltrow notwithstanding... Iggo Apr 2013 #3
Agreed. Moondog Apr 2013 #6
The DU2 Lounge had an official Must Hate Gwyneth policy Orrex Apr 2013 #4
I'm still trying to figure out Carrot Top olddots Apr 2013 #5
Most Hated IrishEyes Apr 2013 #7
She does seem to inspire enmity union_maid Apr 2013 #8
I thought her talented and smart, but no great beauty. kwassa Apr 2013 #9
Love her, and she is beautiful - but not the most beautiful in the world. On the other hand, patricia92243 Apr 2013 #10

Orrex

(63,086 posts)
4. The DU2 Lounge had an official Must Hate Gwyneth policy
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:01 PM
Apr 2013

Sure, it was unwritten, but it was there, plain as day.

union_maid

(3,502 posts)
8. She does seem to inspire enmity
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 09:59 PM
Apr 2013

The whole most beautiful thing is just silliness anyway. Nobody's the most beautiful woman or the sexiest man. Except maybe MFM. I saw his picture. He's adorable.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
9. I thought her talented and smart, but no great beauty.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:19 PM
Apr 2013

All in the mind of the beholder, or course. I thing she is strikingly average looking. Which is, of course, no importance whatsoever.

patricia92243

(12,590 posts)
10. Love her, and she is beautiful - but not the most beautiful in the world. On the other hand,
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 01:35 AM
Apr 2013

I don't know who is the most beautiful - to each his own, I guess.

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