Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
#1Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/3/11 at 5:47pm
It's true, she said so herself.
Link after the jump....
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She's UGLY as hell
#2Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/3/11 at 5:58pmIt Gets Better.
#2Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:03pm
That's what they said about Travis Acreman!
HA!
Okayfine
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/08
#3Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 12:26amNot pretty enough & not human enough, but there you go. Life is unpredictable.
#4Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 12:31am
“I’m five-foot-three,” she muses. “I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.”
She looks like about 90% of the women in the New York/New Jersey area.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#5Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 9:55am
Funny, I think she's a total babe.
Take that, "Owen," I said something really nice about Lea!
#6Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:05amSomehow, I have a hard time believing this is actually true (and not just because LM has been known to, ahem, stretch the truth when it suits her).
#7Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:22amThe thing that bothers me about this altogether (and I think she's pretty enough, but not a babe) is that you look at some of the great Broadway singers in the past, and you realize that they wouldnt stand a chance today. Merman would get bit parts and character roles. Gertrude Lawrence would be dismissed out of hand. It's pretty sad.
#8Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:25amMaybe she's saying this to try to plant yet another connection between her and Babs in the public's mind. ("They told me I wasn't pretty enough, just like my idol, Barbra!"). Of course Broadway is a bastion for oddballs and beauty queens alike. Of people working today, I'd hardly consider Idina Menzel or Caissie Levy or Nina Arianda or even Sutton Foster traditionally beautiful, but they seem to be working steadily and playing leading lady roles.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#9Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:32am
Totally agree with AC, Sean, it's not like everybody on Broadway is drop dead gorgeous. Far from it. For every Luker there is a Lupone (with all due respect to the handsome Ms. Lupone, I'm sure she'd be the first to agree that she is not your average glamor girl).
Even in Hollywood for goodness sake. Just consider that Renee, hardly a beauty, is not only a movie star, but got Roxie!
#10Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:35amI know exactly how she feels. I was told I'm not famous enough to be pretty.
#11Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:52am
Lea Michele told Mister Matt he wasn't pretty enough to be famous 
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#12Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:24amOh no, she's 5'3"! Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11.
#13Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:27am^ Chenoweth. Another person I'd put on the "not traditionally attractive" list. She's doing pretty well for herself, no?
silversurfer2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/07
#14Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:31amHer EGO is bigger then her NOSE...
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#15Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:34am
"I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous"
So was I -- Don Knotts
#16Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:44pmNor is she talented enough or humble enough or nice enough. Not being pretty enough is the least of her shortcomings, and yet she's famous. Sometimes good things happen to sh*tty people.
#17Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:51pm....I think ColorTheHours pretty much hit the nail on the head
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#18Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:53pmShe could try to be nicer to others, since she knows such pain.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#19Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 2:16pm
"I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous"
Even Max Factor couldn't hide my raccoon eyes during Evita - Patti Lupone
Bitch, please - Whoopi Goldberg
I suggest that you marry up - HRH Camilla Parker-Bowles-Mountbatten-Windsor
#20Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:47pm
ColortheHours, why would you call Michele a sh*tty person? What has she done that is so terrible? Her only crime from what I can tell is being fame-hungry.
That said, as someone who has had a crush on Lea since "Spring Awakening," I have to admit my admiration for her went down a couple notches after reading this interview. At the age of 26 or whatever she is she has already achieved more than what 99.9% of actors achieve in their entire careers. Rather than declaring that she wants more, she should be expressing gratitude for what she has.
#21Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:02pm
ColortheHours, why would you call Michele a sh*tty person? What has she done that is so terrible? Her only crime from what I can tell is being fame-hungry.
Given the stories I've heard firsthand from people who know her well about how she treats people she deems to be beneath her, or how she can be vindictive, spiteful, jealous, and malicious towards people whom she perceives as a threat to her, ColorThe Hours might not be too far off.
I've met her, like, three times. She was pleasant in each situation. But the stories I've heard could curl my hair.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#22Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:08pm
.. and pretty much every story about how evil she is toward people is true.
I will tell you first hand that I have seen several tantrums - no, not at a stage door, thanks - and each was not only unwarranted, but SHOCKINGLY bad... and at least one of those was when NO ONE except Ragtime-philes knew who she was.
#23Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:11pm
One of my best friends witnessed an incident at a club where Lea wasn't served because she was under age and she flipped out on everyone. Typical kind of "Don't you know who I am? / I'm too important to be treated this way!" kind of BS. She's lived in a bubble of privilege her whole life. It happens when you've been told since the age of four that you're the greatest thing since the dishwasher.
#24Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:14pmAnything to gain attention. She makes me want to puke. She's the ONLY Reason I can't watch Glee. If it weren't for her I could probably tolerate it. She's just too gross.
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