Jennifer Coolidge Says "Being Really Good Looking Is Overrated" | PEOPLE
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- Jennifer Coolidge says her definition of beauty has evolved over the years. “It’s much broader now,” the 'White Lotus' star says. “Growing up, it was really about beauty pageants. I like that the sky’s the limit now; it’s not this rigid line that we all have to walk. It’s really exciting.” The actress, who is currently filming the second installment of the HBO Max series in Italy, also reveals that she finds joy as the sun goes down: “I was just meant to be a night person. It’s the only time I feel really good.”
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She's right....some people just rode through life on their looks rather than develop a personality.
Lmao cope harder
too true
Not some everyone who has looks
jealousy is a disease
When beautiful people get old they have a more challenging time than normal people.They are used to the positive attention and that goes away.It's truly hard for them
Well, she is stunning in & out and don’t think u will ever get bored by her side
I've met her more than once and had to work for her the woman is hideous and I'm not talking about anything I saw with my eyes
I don’t think she’s pretty at all and she’s full of herself and obnoxious.
@@lady4191But she's got the charisma to fool people into thinking she's 'cool AF' haha.
People refuse to realize that it is all a performance!, it's an illusion
Finch approves.
Somebody needs to write Jennifer Coolidge and Michelle Pfeiffer as sisters...I feel like there'd be some strange & wonderful alchemy there.
Yes! That’s who she reminded me of! They have similar lips and smile…
Yesssss
This and the dolly parton/elvira as sisters would be perfect.
Omg you are so right!!
That’s brilliant.
"unless your sleeping with that person, and then it's kinda fun" I love her
That was the best line 😂🥂
And even that line is not necessary true, they might be very boring and lazy lovers haha.
She’s hilarious even when she doesn’t try
Jennifer Coolidge is a national treasure
International!!
😳😳😳😳😳🙄🙄🙄🙄
😂
🙏😊🙏 I AGREE SIR 😉: Like Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton...THIS WOMAN IS BEYOND GORGEOUS 😘 "UNIVERSAL," CUZ SHE IS THE REAL DEAL"...I LOVE HER SO MUCH TOO...GOD BLESS HER...🙏😇🙏
YES!! She has that RARE Betty White "gene" that is absolutely national treasure worthy 🥰💕🤩 .
Yes... I feel her on the night owl thing. I am just NOT a morning/day person at all. But at night, I am a totally different person.
Maybe you were born at night ,,
me too, and I am a vampire
Honestly, I’m just going to blame it on the fact I was born at midnight
My theory is the troupe of human apes thrived when they had a few people who were alert at night. We're actually humanity's secret defense weapon. Just with more parties now than back in the (neolithic) day.
SAME❣❣
Wow first time saw her in a real life, she's PURE CHARISMA! She's got the kind of energy that you wanna befriend her immediately.
Not me!
I love her! So glad she's getting more press now because she's always been a star.
She's just lovely. Recently finished series 1 & 2 of The White Lotus and she did a great job of getting you to sympathise, warm to and root for a privelegded and pretty insufferable (on paper) character.
What's it on?
@@lh9761 HBO Max or Hulu if you have the package that includes HBO content
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Being really good looking is overrated until you lose x-amount of pounds and suddenly look really hot and everyone is super nice to you and gives you compliments and wants to hang out. Pretty privilege is real and you FEEL it. Believe me, being overlooked and ignored sucks so much. It may be shallow, but when you’re beautiful, you are seen and sought after. Having experienced both sides, I make a big effort to make sure I’m as attractive as I can be. Life is just better, plain and simple.
Yes it is self sabotage to not TRY to be your most attractive version. But it says you don’t care about people like you as well. Which is cool. So it just depends where you’re at
I experience both. I find if I look good women are the enemy, so thats not easy especially if any of them have power over you.
I love it when people are this honest 💙
To me a pretty face is charming yes but forgettable. I’ll take a funny a person over a hot one any day
It's amazing how quickly and dramatically one's personality alters their looks once you interact with them... says it all
Ikr
I had a friend who was so attractive people would flock to her like a magnet and she got offered all these free entry to events but she was desperately unhappy because felt like no one saw the real her. She tried really hard to be interesting, started being an artist but really everyone just wanted her beauty... Women and men
She's really quite beautiful. Very striking. And funny as all hell. Love her!
I loved her in Two broken girls. I haven't seen her movies.
She’s so brutally honest and fully herself all the time. She deserves more attention and opportunities! Love her
When I was younger being the prettiest one in the room was always the goal, and you tended to feel jealousy or envy if someone younger or prettier took the spotlight. I remember a boss of mine telling me they weren't going to hire someone because they were too" pretty. That intense competition when you are younger is brutal and either you're on the receiving end or dishing it out. It was exhausting.
I have to disagree about having good looks not being a perk. Ask anyone who hasn't been blessed with looks or outright "ugly" (me) if it has negatively affected nearly every aspect of their life. People who are lucky enough don't understand because they dont experience or witness how uglier people are treated. It even affects how doctors, police, teachers, bosses, work colleagues, and even family treat you. You're treated with contempt and disdain, and the odd nice person that tries to be nice because they feel sorry for you and has seen whats it's like for you.
I'm not a superficial person, just really gets to me when people say having good looks doesn't help you,
Its the same when people say money doesn't bring you happiness. Er, if you're wealthy, you can afford the best medical care, attend decent schools, live in the safest areas, travel and meet all sorts of cool people. How can you say those things don't bring you some relief and joy as opposed to not having access to any of that stuff? Money saves people's lives. Hell yes it brings you happiness and life quality.
Unfortunately there’s also a dark side to being attractive especially for women. So while you may not get the perks, you don’t also get the very particular negatives of being attractive. One of my very attractive female coworkers has had multiple stalkers. Men will go out of their way to violate your space. You have to be very careful about showing any form of cheerfulness. Other women can become very jealous and vicious around you. This can sabotage your career opportunities as they are good at hiding their true feelings. People will assume your success is due to your appearance especially if you work in a male dominated field. Some people will go as far to assume that you used your body to get special favors. Some will preposition you based on that assumption. They won’t take you seriously if you work in a mentally rigourous field.
A lot of the niceness that you get, is actually fake. Men want some thing from you. They just become a bit better at hiding it or they go to further lengths to hide it. But eventually it comes out especially after you sleep with them. There’s a certain kind of peace and knowing that people are your friends and lovers because of who you are and not some thing you have limited control over. That element is the same thing as having a lot of money. You cant always be sure that people have the right intentions around you.
@@thezu9250 I'm sooo soooooo with you on this!!! As if I had written it myself, really! I was just thinking about beautiful, rich, successful women... take Britney, Amy or Whitney... especially two latter ones, what a tragic life and end in each case... and I thought they had it all because they "made it" big!! I also kinda understand why rich people date other rich people... still, being rich and beautiful doesn't guarantee being happy and fulfilled in life.
She didn't say that it's not a perk in some cases or life in general, she said that it's overrated and boring. "It doesn't help you and it doesn't get you out of your misery" - her exact words, so I would still say she doesn't consider it a great perk in life. Please, don't think of yourself as "ugly". I agree with the rest of your comments, cause I feel the same. But! I also have to agree with The Zu above, drop dead gorgeous women are always in danger of all the things she mentioned. As a person keen on true crime I can give you thousands of examples of beautiful, young women killed because of jealousy or other stupid reasons. Would you like to be bludgeon to death just after your prom? I wouldn't. I consider myself average but probably quite good looking based on people's reactions (except for the nose, but oh well), but believe me, it didn't bring me more happiness, rather disappointment. I was "loved" for my looks. Well, at least I wasn't killed for it. Now, on a dating side I block every guy eho starts his message with: "Hello beautiful!" I hate it! I only trully love my cats, cause they love me for ME and because I love them, not because of my looks. Be happy no matter what! Focus on important stuff, not some superficial boyfriends or idiots from your family who treat your prettier sister better! PS - On the money thing I totally agree. Maybe not always happiness, but money definitely can safe your health or life, no doubt about it. Take care of yourself and love yourself no matter what.
My impression was she didn’t mean it doesn’t make life easier in certain aspects, that it in fact does make life easier. But as a result, the most “beautiful” pple ride on their god given looks instead of developing a deeper understanding of humanity? Or a great sense of humor and compassion and substantial parts of their humanity, and that creates narcissism & surface personality which is absolutely boring. It doesn’t prevent misery.
I’m really sorry that you have to deal with that. Life is unfair in ways I don’t I understand. I hope you find some peace in a shallow world, my friend.
This woman is one of a kind
I agree mostly with what she says except for the fact that being beautiful DOES get you something. Good looking people are paid better and are always given 'undeserved' perks such as entering a club or being seated first and numerous other things that make life easier and more enjoyable.
It’s called attractive leniency bias.
Or the "halo" effect
Tbh it's more affected by being well-maintained in my experience, people judge more based on things the majority of people can change
So weight, fitness, hygiene, are the clothes clean, do the clothes suit the person
I'm aware there's disorders that can affect how people perceive other's self-care like hypothyroiditusm, lipedema, hormonal disorders etc and it's in no way fair at all but I think this attractive person thing is less genetics than people tend to believe
That doesn't make the bias fair or fine though
Well, aren't there lots of ugly and dumb people? Some people just don't have much personality and I don't think it's caused by being pretty.
Weirdly I am a night owl too, I've been going to bed at 4, 5 6 am, ridiculously I thrive at night, and some of us do.
“Unless you’re sleeping with that person…then it’s kinda fun!”
Her one liners are legendary. Jennifer Coolidge never disappoints! 😂😂😂😭😭
What an icon
It's a shallow thing but it makes your life easier. Many beautiful people don't realize it until they start aging and losing their privilege.
It only makes your life easier if you know how to use your looks. Lots of people don't. It's far better to be smart and focused, that way you can make money and bring about the looks through self-care and cosmetic stuff. I have met plenty of beautiful women who have ended up in the dirt, because they did not have the savviness, so all they did was get used. Beauty without street smarts can actually be a total car wreck, and again specially for women. The males of this century will use them and dump them for the chick with the fattest wallet or better job.
@@selmahare it's true. I've had guys try to use me and had to wise up, I've also seen friends of mine that were pretty,knew it, and used it to get ahead. They knew exactly how they were viewed and turned the game guys played back around on them. Which in some ways was refreshing,except when they did that to relatively good guys too.. then I started giving the side eye. That whole "one who fights monsters should see to it that they don't become a monster themselves" comes to mind.
My point? Rather you are cute,pretty,drop dead gorgeous, or just not very memorable at all look wise, it's best to make sure we obtain and maintain a healthy balance. Work on your looks, personality, education, job etc. If all you have is one tool, you're not gonna make it very far 🤷♀️
Oh please. The “good” guys were after the sane thing too. Men are more visual and sexual than women. Good & bad ones. Stop judging. You’re not really her friend.
"It's a shallow thing, unless you're sleeping with that person" hahahahahaha so true 😁😁😁😁
Could I love her any more? I don't think so.
My sister was the prettiest in her class and got bullied for it by the other girls who were jealous. So many guys got crushes on her, she married her highschool sweetheart maybe to not have to deal with that. It can be a curse.
I am a night person too... the trouble is, finding other night people like me! I am surrounded by early birds!
Funny, beautiful AND insightful.
we need more jennifer! such a kind beautiful soul
You can tell she has been spending time around the "young ins"!
Tell that to every person who gets ahead because of their looks...we live in the era where merit = good looks
People say this, but if you could press a button that'll turn you into the best version of you, you'll press it.
Being truly complete is being of sound body and mind.
Omg, this lady looks like she is really fun to be around 😊 and I sooo agree on that "beauty is overrated" thing. I used to be a super attractive girl with a great body and actually it does almost nothing to your life. Like OK, may be people are a bit nicer and a bit more helpful to you. And that's it. Also you attract narcissists and manipulative people and sometimes good decent guys kind of shy away from you because they doubt themselves in your presence. Apart from that - it doesn't make any difference whether you look stunning or mildly good. I totally agree that appearance is the most overrated thing in the world.
Bring ugly is only okay when you have other talents or at least alot of money. Otherwise you really lost in life.
@@mariemaier5630 😂
Agree 100%
@T J I really doubt it. Quite contrary, appearance matters only when you make first impressions. In long term relationship it's personality that matters.
Also there is a famous quote: when you are looking at a stunning woman keep in mind there exist a man who is bored of sleeping with her.
I saw this phrase a few times under different videos (if I'm not mistaken one video was about Monika Bellucci's divorce, another was about Beyonce's man cheating).
I love her. Tone down the background music tho. It doesn’t match and it’s loud.
I just love her take on being a night person! I can so relate, I absolutely go into party mode between 8-9pm at night although I spend most of the day feeling wrecked!
I get really happy around 5 pm because it means its almost nighttime lol
Same!
Being really attractive is a blessing and a curse. I've only seen one person navigate it well. And that was Farrah Fawcett. She was always humble and kind. Gracious to a fault and stunning in person! (I met her several times) No pretense. Seemed up for anything or cool with it. She had many female friends and very few male lovers. Both of which are rare traits in any beautiful woman. And she had a kickass personality.
Gorgeous and hilarious, the perfect woman!
She’s so awesome
She so great, one of the most entertaining people in the film industry
I need friends like her. She cracks me up
This boosted my self esteem, thanks Jennifer 💕
I am always amazed how actors can take on characters and be so articulate and expressive pretending to be someone else…and then they do an interview as themselves and I’m left going “wtf did I just watch” 🤣
😂😂😂
because intelligent people write the characters we see in movies/tv, whereas actors are generally of average or below intelligence.
She sounds plastered and/or brain damaged from years of drug abuse though I believe she’s fortunately sober. But then she performs and I’m like … she still got it. She must have something special within that acting luckily brings out
@@rabidgoon Yes, you're right, based on the ZERO actors you know in real life
@@MichelleAntonia awe, did i hurt your wittle fee-fees?
Jennifer's right. Beauty is overrated. Only people who are not handsome think that it brings you the world on a platter, that is such a myth. It can bring you much but you need to be ready to sell your soul, because no one will give you anything for free, just because you look pretty. Guess what, you are one in a million if you look pretty, so if you don't put out (be it to your boss or to a convenience husband) there is no deal. Being a looker only makes your life easier if you know how to, and are able to, use your looks in that way. Lots of people don't. Without the street smarts and capacity to put out, your looks will get you no where, you might as well go back to school; and the world is full of examples of that. It's far better to be smart and focused, that way you can make money and bring about the looks through self-care and cosmetic stuff. I have met plenty of beautiful women who have ended up in the dirt, because they did not have the savviness, so all they did was get used. Beauty without street smarts can actually be a total car wreck and a curse, and again specially for women. The other women are jealous of you and target you, and again, most males, if you don't have it together, will just use you for a walk in the park. The males of this century will use them and dump them for the chick with the fattest wallet or better job. My entire life I heard the most tragic stories from beautiful women in the first person, and all of them sound like the same, abuse, disrespect, sexual harassment, abandonment, etc... Even the ones that make it usually have to be used and abused to get there. That's why I realized from very early on, having learned it the hardest possible way, that I needed to get my shit together, study and work, if I can't put out for money, and don't care to be some superficial loser's stamp of gratification, that is.
This was fascinating perspective
She looks good love her and yes the good looking are boring 😂 love it
Science has shown that pretty people have privilege and get treated much better, people even subconsciously do it. And beauty is still symmetry.She even said at the end- unless you are sleeping with that person- well that's what a lot of life is about
when people only are seeking sex we tend to look at people like objects, I personally think this is quite harmful because it takes more than two attractive people to have sex. They have to get along as well. In every other aspect in life, we should be able to look at people for who they are - not how they were born to look or what they had the money to physically change.
@j.brandon7402 So you just want someone to use sexually? Great. 🙄
It’s overrated .. like she said. In the real world ( for jobs that don’t rely on looks) ..being articulate and intelligent and skillful wins over looks. Sure don’t present as a slob but if u have the skillset for your job you don’t have to be gorgeous to succeed LOL ie bill gates bezos, musk .. so plz. Ppl stop with this nonsense. Find something u can master and present as hygienic and you’ll be fine. Most ppl in the real world are average anyway it’s not a make or break
@@mpro9446 What you wrote is the actual reality
so funny I coincidentally heard that on an audiobook today, about how most people who are beautiful are actually super boring. Love Jennifer!
stop coping, most women in general are boring lol
@@veronicachic I think if we are being honest, then I'd have to admit most PEOPLE are boring 😂
That’s better. This hating on beautiful ppl thread is boring lol
I'm exactly like what she described in the beginning. Tired all fucking day and then coming alive at night
She’s right a lot of good looking people are indeed boring.
Unless your sleeping with that person and then it's kind of fun, haha.....she cracked me up!
She is so down to earth! She's amazing!
Sophie Katchinsky ♥ I'll never not hear the polish accent when she speaks.
I don't care. Jennifer is 🔥. She needs an audio book of her best advice, quotes.
Gosh I really love listening yo this woman... she seems so wise, beautiful and charismatic 😍🤩 I'm going to search out all the long Jennifer interviews now!!
As a “pretty girl🙄” that grew up being sexually harassed and uncomfortably coveted by boys (or men) and ruthlessly bullied by girls, i feel this. I definitely didn’t take it as a perk. As an adult I tend to shy away from people caught up in it. Everything comes with its own downside and everyone can go through depression, loneliness, suffering regardless of what you look like. Different side of the coin but it doesn’t exempt you from the hardness of living life. “Beauty” isn’t an absolute anyway since it’s different strokes for different folks when it comes to preferences.
Rather be ugly? Poor you.
Agree. Its tough having good looks, its an unfair advantage and small minded people tend to hate and get jealous of people who have been born with unfair advantages.
im not that pretty, but my mother would say once that im charming, never had any problems with boys and also got bullied by girls. they were always mean to me, and i never knew why. but now i realized why, they wanted to take me down coz of what i looked like. sad world we live in and now i have a daughter, neighborhood kids also bullies her, coz she is just so cute and boys has a crush on her. outer beauty can rather be a bad thing sometimes, because people will always be jealous of you.
Such a charming woman just love her and her attitude 😍
People give beautiful people qualities they don't have, like intelligence. Sadly that's because people on the whole aren't much smarter.
yup, that's been proven scientifically and psychologically. oh well, I don't care about stupid people ;)
My ex boyfriend was the tallest, hottest, most boring man I’ve ever met! 😂
And yes, he thought he had a personality.
She‘s right, good looking people are really boring. I should know, I’m one of the most boring people in the entire world.
Being a night owl is not just your personality. It's an adrenal problem! If you are a night owl, chances are you are low in vitamin d, vitamin B1 in the form of non-fortified nutritional yeast, vitamin C, your thyroid is off, you're low in iodine, and your circadian rhythms are off- all having to do with your adrenals. There are probably a few other things that you would probably have to be tested by a natural health doctor or functional doctor to find out.
Thanks for sharing! I've been a night owl my whole life and recently been diagnosed with a bunch of vitamin deficiencies and severe vitamin D deficiency.
Also a night person and feel wretched mornings and days -- at least until 6 pm when the energy picks up
I get pretty privilege, as my son calls it, because I am so attractive. I love it!!! It isn’t over rated at all!!!!
beautiful people can be boring sleeping with
When you are good looking, the world does not expect nothing more out of you. And you don't have to be anything other than, good looking.
I love her! She's such a charismatic person
She cool in her own way,
But in some sense I'll just stay an admirer.
I used to be pretty but boring, now I'm old and I'm still boring
i love her soooo
The sad part about good looking people is how they don't know they're boring! Ha! It's true. You can be good looking and interesting though, but those come with other problems. We all got them. It's those who believe that being good looking makes them go away who are the problem.
How does she feel about filming starting at 6am 😂
I relate to this 100%. My morning life has always been very very difficult.
From the comments, it seems that Jennifer thinks she's one way, while others see her differently. I went to elementary & Jr High with a well known celebrity. She was a bully, so vain. Many students she had tortured for a long time were so happy when she moved away, including me!
Her life has been one mess after another. Karma.
Who, who? 😄
like...like...like....like...ya know like, like....
Jennifer Coolidge is one of my favorite actresses 🌟
I think she’d be a fun person to hang out with.
Haha...I relate to this. I'm a total Night owl
I love her ❤ she has such a warm personality and vibe
Sadly some of us are ugly *and* boring.
I get what she's saying. I start imaginary pole dancing to slow music the later night goes...and feel Good about myself too
"Makes me want a hot dog real bad!" 🤣
I think she’s my new spirit animal.
Wish I was her man!
Literally love her she is wonderful because she's truthful a serious talent who moves me 👍
She's AMAZING. Everything she said was so honest. Also, I think she's a Witch like me 😇...so many Witches absolutely adore the night time. Especially the super creative ones. Not that you have to BE ANYTHING to enjoy the night time, just saying that I wonder if she knows or senses that about herself...🤔 ?
She is beautiful to a lot of people. ❤❤❤
Love her - being funny is natural.
She's such a terrific and funny person, I'll watch anything she's in.
So lovable, there's something so pure about her, almost like a child.
The music is so annoying
Ah well, she was very beautiful when she was younger and she is still attractive even now
When she touched her hair at the end I 100% thought she was about to remove a track of hair. To be like “this is the real me”. Lmaooo. That would have been epic
cooler cart duplex shopping lower or higher using staircase abecs
since I fell for the shit ; rubbermaid widebody kit
I understand she is universally adored but she seems like she's under the influence of something here
LOL she’s always like that 🙌🏻
She’s a treasure! 🖤
I just love her. And she’s right in a general sense. Our flaws make us interesting and unique.
Long Live Jennifer Coolidge !
Is that her art studio? If yes I never knew she did ceramics! So cool
She is awesome
She got looks, funnies and smarts!
I am with you too, Jennifer - I LOVE night time 🌃 most of all ... 🤩