A lot of movies try to make us think a character is supposed to be ugly...when that character is played by one of the most beautiful people on the planet.
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It's absolutely ridiculous, and seems to happen even more with female characters which can influence young girls to think "Gee, if this beautiful actor is supposed to look 'ugly,' and I don't even look like them, what am I supposed to be?"
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Here are 18 ridiculous times Hollywood tried to make us think women were ugly when they definitely were not:
Bianca in "The DUFF" (played by Mae Whitman)
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Gretchen in "Mean Girls" (played by Lacey Chabert)
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Needy in "Jennifer's Body" (played by Amanda Seyfried)
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Kate in "John Tucker Must Die" (played by Brittany Snow)
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Sam in "Sixteen Candles" (played by Molly Ringwald)
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Aimee in "The Spectacular Now" (played by Shailene Woodley)
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Gracie in "Miss Congeniality" (played by Sandra Bullock)
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Laney from "She's All That" (played by Rachel Leigh Cook)
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Natalie in "House Bunny" (played by Emma Stone)
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...and Skeeter in "The Help" (also played by Emma Stone)
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Sam in "A Cinderella Story" (played by Hilary Duff)
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...and the ugly stepsisters (played by Madeline Zima and Andrea Avery)
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Tai in "Clueless" (played by Brittany Murphy)
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Hermione in the "Harry Potter" series (played by Emma Watson)
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...and also Pansy Parkinson (played by Scarlett Byrne)
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Nadine from "The Edge of Seventeen" (played by Hailee Steinfeld)
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Mia from "The Princess Diaries" (played by Anne Hathaway)
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And finally, Jamie from "A Walk to Remember" (played by Mandy Moore)
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