History Main / IAmNotPretty

** Thanks to the fact she spent most of her life being called cursed because of her {{albin|osarefreaks}}ism, Sophia was convinced she's creepy and unattractive. However, she's actually quite beautiful, as Catarina points out, with her albinism actually acting like a CharmPoint. When this is pointed out, she cries happily, since nobody besides her brother has ever complimented her appearance before.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''

* Liri from ''Webcomic/TheChallengesOfZona'' believes she is ugly and unattractive, because she is a giantess and has been reviled by humans her whole life. This persists even after she met and fell in love with another giant, Keltan, leading to the two of them having InnocentCohabitation until Zona, the main character, convinces her otherwise and tells her about sex.

* Nicole Scherzinger went through a bad bout of low self-esteem and eating disorders because of this. She specifically mentioned that she was born in Hawaii but moved to Kentucky, so she always felt out of place as a Polynesian girl surrounded by blonde-haired, blue-eyed Southern Belles.

* [[http://www.examiner.com/article/pregnant-jessica-alba-shows-off-burgeoning-baby-bump-at-spy-kids-film-premiere Jessica Alba]]: "My breasts are saggy, I’ve got cellulite, my hips are bigger," Alba said. "Every actress out there is more beautiful than me."

* Creator/PaulRudd, is famously OlderThanTheyLook and often makes [[SelfDeprecation self deprecating jokes]] whenever his good looks are brought up. When he was named the [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman "Sexiest Man Alive"]] in 2021 by People magazine, he teamed up with Creator/StephenColbert to make a funny video about how he won the title.

* While Creator/PedroPascal has built up a reputation as a sex icon since ''Series/GameOfThrones'', he tends to speak of his appearance in degrading terms, claiming to have "undernourished" facial hair or a dad bod.

* ''Fanfic/FrozenHeart'': Elsa thinks of herself as too pale, too thin, and too stand-offish for anyone to actually like, especially when compared to her excitable sister Anna. She doesn't seem to notice that she's drop-dead gorgeous, and she wears form-fitting clothing made out of ice that might be slightly transparent. She mentions that half the castle has confessed their love for her, but she assumes they're just after the privileges that come with being in a relationship with the queen, and is baffled by the suggestion that they might actually ''like'' her.

{{Amazonian|Beauty}} types may feel the same way, because they often think guys [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon aren't into them.]] As are UsefulNotes/{{pettanko}}s, who may [[ACupAngst feel inferior]] to other girls' [[BuxomIsBetter endowments.]] While for others, it may have to do with being [[HollywoodPudgy over their 'ideal weight'.]]

** On a smaller note, Lexi Howard, tends to feel this way as she is overshadowed by her blonde and buxom older sister Cassie and everyone from their family to their friends pay attention to Cassie. Lexi Howard is played by the just as gorgeous Maude Apatow.

* Discussed in ''Actors' Life'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvPGB3uZZg "Am I Good Looking Enough?"]] which tells actors to stop comparing themselves to other people's looks. Bobby talks about feeling this way when appearing in a music video with a much better looking actor, and responding with a FlatWhat when said actor asked if ''he'' looked okay. And for his ShortFilm ''WebVideo/{{Aaron}}'', the brother characters were {{Retcon}}ned into being half-brothers because he worried he wasn't good looking enough to be related to Thomas Fitzgerald.

* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Harumi Kiyama is a hot teacher and HotScientist whom one of her students kept begging her to marry him. She has no problem stripping in public if it is hot or if her clothes get dirty because to her, she is so unattractive that no one would want to look at her.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''
** Katarina recognizes that her features are above average, but since she's comparing herself to her even prettier friends she concludes that she isn't attractive at all. More importantly to her self image, though, is that she has [[TsurimeEyes upward tilting blue eyes]] that she thinks make her look like a villain, but everyone else thinks they just make her look a bit intense at worst.
** Thanks to the fact she spent most of her life being called cursed because of her {{albin|osarefreaks}}ism, Sophia was convinced she's creepy and unattractive. However, she's actually quite beautiful, as Catarina points out, with her albinism actually acting like a CharmPoint. When this is pointed out, she cries happily, since nobody besides her brother has ever complimented her appearance before.

* A RareMaleExample in the second ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book: Percy mentions that he doesn't like to think about his appearance, mentioning a few minor flaws that bother him (one of which is just that he's started getting zits). For what it's worth, the official art always depicts him as normal-to-attractive. On the other hand, he says this while his insecurities [[MoreThanMindControl are being heightened]] by [[HotWitch Circe]], who's using her CompellingVoice to make him accept a "[[ForcedTransformation makeover]]."

Sometimes she might be a standard beauty, but feels unattractive because she's the ''wrong kind'' of beautiful. A girl with RavenHairIvorySkin who's an absolute knockout to anyone with eyes might still feel she's unattractive because she's told the "ideal" is blue-eyed blonde. This one is especially common in the U.S.; the standard of beauty is an ideal that could be considered Northern European (blonde hair, blue eyes, tan complexion), which leaves a lot of girls in minority groups feeling this way (Music/{{Cher}}, for instance, has said in the past that she grew up feeling like she could never be beautiful because she wasn't blonde.)

* [[ShesGotLegs Dierdre "Nezumi" Mitako]] from the ''Manga/InuYasha'' fanfic ''[[http://www.suericfanfictions.com/ Purity 3: Forever]]'' is a WrenchWench who has been OneOfTheBoys for so long that she has a hard time thinking about herself as an attractive woman, even though almost the entirety of the story is about a guy trying to convince her he actually loves her and wants to marry her.

* ''Creator/ScarlettJohansson'' once described her face as "stuck on there and there's nothing I can do about it." And there have been several roles where she's been turned down because the director thought she was too pretty.

* Jameela Jamil, [[HeadTurningBeauty Tahani]] of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', is very vocal about her history with body dysmorphia and eating disorders. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h57qq1SmQw an interview]], she explained that 1990s Britain's standard of beauty was the Kate Moss waif look with Meg Ryan's slim lips and the climate was very racist, not a great place for a Pakistani-British girl who had larger features and was developing a curvaceous figure. These days she practices and promotes body neutrality and [[WhatTheHellHero calls out her celeb peers for promoting dieting products that are very harmful to teenagers]].

* ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'': Shinju Inui thinks this about herself, since she's a HugeSchoolgirl who stands 178cm (roughly 5'10") despite being a middleschooler, and thinks she's "fat" (she's actually absurdly curvaceous for her age), envying her older sister Sajuna whose petite body allows her to cosplay "cute" characters.

* A RareMaleExample in the second ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' book: Percy mentions that he doesn't like to think about his appearance, mentioning a few minor flaws that bother him (one of which is just that he's started getting zits). For what it's worth, the official art always depicts him as normal-to-attractive. On the other hand, he says this while his insecurities [[MoreThanMindControl are being heightened]] by [[HotWitch Circe]], who's using her CompellingVoice to make him accept a "[[BalefulPolymorph makeover]]."

* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'': Averted and defied by Nobu; she knows she's rather plain looking (and this is backed up by others noting she's plain-looking as well), but she's also not particularly bothered by it because, as she herself prefers a plainer sort of man rather than {{Bishounen}}, it stands to reason that there will be a man that likes her plainer looks. This so shocks Shogun Tsunayoshi (who was raised to believe her beauty was the most important thing to her) that she ends up laughing, then awarding Nobu land and the masculine name Yoshimune as a reward for the laugh, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to Yoshimune becoming shogun herself.

** Creator/LaurenBacall was MsFanservice for many of her roles, courtesy of her husky voice, and is remembered as one of the greatest beauties of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Bacall, on the other hand, didn't understand why people found her attractive, since she considered herself to be plain-looking, too tall and with too large feet.

* The title character from ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' tries to believe she's beautiful, but rarely manages it, despite being drop-dead gorgeous even by superheroine standards. [[AlphaBitch Sistah Spooky's]] constant digs do nothing to help. Over the course of the series, she improves slowly, as does Spooky.

* A curious example appears in Kit Williams' well-known puzzle book Literature/{{Masquerade|1979}}. The Sun is in love with the Moon but doesn't dare speak to her. This is because people always screw their faces up whenever they look at him, which leads him to think he must be very ugly.

** ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Binding Blade]]'' has a character named Dorothy. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and wears all brown tomboyish clothes. When ProperLady Clarine takes it upon herself to make Dorothy an attractive lady, Dorothy says that there's really nothing to work with. (Clarine eventually concludes that the issue isn't Dorothy's clothing or mannerisms, it's this attitude.)

* Poor [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] from ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub''. She was raised to believe that all princesses, by nature, were inherently beautiful. When she learns her fiancé views her as ugly, it is hugely detrimental to her sense of self-worth and her mental health. She refuses to accept the attempts of her family, the CPC, and Leopold to convince her that she really is beautiful the way she is.

* Maia Drazhar in ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'' is very self-conscious and negative about his own appearance, but the worst the actual physical descriptions in the book have to say are that he's a bit scrawny, prone to MessyHair (which ceases to become an issue after he becomes emperor and has a valet to take care of it), and has a nasty [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars scar on his arm]] that's completely covered-up when he's fully clothed. A lot of his self-consciousness comes from having very visible MixedAncestry in a milieu full of FantasticRacism, as well as general low self-esteem from years of psychological abuse. Fanart generally depicts him as a LongHairedPrettyBoy.

* Poor Gwen from ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub''. She was raised to believe that all princesses, by nature, were inherently beauitful. When she learns her fiancé views her as ugly it is hugely detrimental to her sense of self-worth and her mental health. She refuses to accept the attempts of her family, the CPC and Leopold to convince her that she really is beautiful the way she is.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Yor Forger (née Briar) has a low opinion of her appearance, because of all the mean-spirited comments she gets from her coworkers (who are actually jealous because she's very pretty, and she could be a head-turner if she bothered to fix herself up). It takes her for a complete loop when Loid calls her beautiful when they first meet each other.