LOS ANGELES: We envy the beautiful people but, according to research, those with the most striking looks are doomed to end up miserable and alone and we ought to be sympathetic.
Certainly, the list of sex symbols who have recently failed in love--such as Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Gwyneth Paltrow, nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley--seems to support the theory.
"People with too many choices rarely make the right ones" said Dr. John Blaine, of the university of Southern California.
Dr Blaine followed a sample of 60 "professionally attractive" people (such as actors and models) over two years and compared them with others who do not depend on their looks for a living. Beverley Hills therapist Judy Tripper backed his findings, saying beauty was "more of a curse than a blessing". |
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