I was an ugly duckling. I was a tramp. I never used to believe in parting my hair, when I tell u ma hairline was nyam out. It was lyke famine. My hair jus didn't grow, and then me likea fool decide to go an curly perm an make tha ress of ma hair drop off kmt. I used 2 struggle 2 get it in a headband. [U have NO idea how many clips I used 2 use to get it in der] I literally used to like...grab one side. DRRAAGGG it into a hairband. An i'd have like...6 clips underneath i, an bout 4 on top. An it was tha same on the otherside...like pigtails. Now...imagine that 'from the back' with no parting.....and there you have it, dat was tha same dry hairstyle I used 2 walk on road wiv, still never understandin why tha older kids used to look at me an laugh.

Imagine bein incredibly butters an the TALLEST one. U cudn't miss me. U cud see ma face from a mile off. Probably y ppl used 2 cross over when they used to see me. So they could laugh more. I was popular though funnily enough, cuz i was the fastest runner in my year, but I weren't popular for anythin else.

I don't think I knew what colour co-ordination was. An not ONE boy EVER liked me (I was around....10/11 I think)They used to call me ugly and used to say 'ha ha you won't ever get a boyfriend. Ha ha."I used to look like aboy. I was a beast.

I think I started takin pride in my appearance when I started Secondary school, even though lookin back...'what was I thinkin!??! They used to call me black britney, cuz I used to wear pop socks with the mini skirt with sum big clunky bugga shoes.....cot dayumn!!!!! But for sum reason...boys liked that (i think it was the skirt) But it was the first time I ever started gettin attention, an I started parting my hair too, even though it still looked a bit dodgy. Iused to get into fights alot as well, cuz the other year 7 girls (at the time) didn't like that boys liked me and called me a 'sket'.Anywhoo, I think year....9 was the turnin point for me, my hair was loookin neater. My clothes were lookin neater, even though it was school uniform, I was juss lookin...neater. I stopped being so aggressive towards people, and stopped fighting. I saw sense..basically. Didn't wear da mash up lil skirt wiv the pleats all ironed out, changed my style aswell. I used to wear this lil satin bomber jacket (kinda quilted) damn it used 2 look so gud till the pockets ripped.

Now when I walk on street, people tell me I look sweet and cute an ya de de ya, cuz apparently when I smile I look like a baby [kmt] but back den, dey wudda looked at me like I was a different species.

I'ma much better person now than I was back then, cuz I think I used to try and fit in, jus to make boys like me and to get friends. It was all about 'popularity' from years 7-8, and I acted like a fool lol, thankfully I learned from my mistakes, and now I don't like being the same as everyone else. I don't like people buyin the same clothes as me (I know it sounds dumb) I don't like people dressing like me, or doin their hair tha same as me, or anythin lol......cuz, now I love havin ma own sense of identity. I like being original, which is somethin I could never have said back then lol.


Now I get a lot of male attention, though it does get a bit annoyin, especially when they're 'hissing' at me [u no dem wuns ennit lol], or callin me baby love. I mean, it's nice to know i'm attractive now, but, now that I got a boyfriend....it's juss...annoyin now lol, cuz some of them literally follow me down the street asking to 'be my friend'. But yea, overall, I'm couldn't be happier with myself, I aint got no self esteem issues whatsoever, and I wouldn't change anything about myself.

I was a cute baby, but when teenage years came, i was fat, big thick eyebrows and a huge mouth (one i had to grow into ...lol) and some messy kanerows.

I am the original ugly duckling, now all the boys that use to diss me be wanting the phone number!!!!!

My face i still the same but the maturity is in it now, plus i am in charge of my own hair / clothes and eyebrows!! lol, and now the big mouth is seductive and juicy!!!

All anyone can do is to carry themselves the best way they can.

Nope, was always a swan...

Though saying that I didgo through those butters 'teenage' years from about 12-15...the knock knees, bony face, skinny calves....angular and not comfortable with the changes. urgh

well i never had a problem with the way i looked back in my younger days. i was considered pretty, hardly ever wore make up cuz i didnt need it, never had a problem attracting men. all that changed when i was 25 and developed adult acne. it totally ruined my life, and took away my self confidence. i found myself getting dissed by men more and more- especially once they would see me without make up on. i was obsessed with my skin and spent thousands on all kinds of stuff that was spose to clear me but due to having sensitive skin a lot of it just made me worse and left me looking even worse. 6 months ago i came up with a regimen that has cleared my acne but my skin is still not flawless. i still have the dark spots and one pitted scar which is permanent. therefore i feel like the swan that became the ugly duckling....

I was a cute egg (baby-younger years) and a butt-ugly duckling (8-13).
In 7th grade they called me Scary Spice (and not in a flattering way) because I did not know what to do with my hair. Then my sis started braiding it into block braids and then I was called "tic-tac-to". My dad chopped my hair off to my ears and I looked like a buck-toothed, big-gapped boy with Groucho Marx eyebrows.

My body and face and hair started settling into place right before highschool though thankgod.

I would say I am attractive now although you wouldn't even think it was possible w/out extreme plastic surgery and style makeover 10 years ago.

I was adorable as a child, but once puberty hit, forget it. Horrible acne, bad clothes and shoes/sneakers that weren't name brand, bad hair, etc. I was teased so much that I wanted to end my life quite a few times. It got a little better after secondary school.

I used to wish I was as pretty as the pretty girls in school. I admired them for how pretty/beautiful they were and their nice clothes and hair, yet was saddened by how ugly I thought I was. My mother tried to help me with my self-esteem but it didn't work. Those same girls now aren't as pretty as they used to be. All that fast living - guys, sex, etc, - took its toll. The same goes for many of the guys I went to school with.

People tell me now that I'm pretty/beautiful. It's up to me to finally believe it.

my case was different i was brainwashed into beleiving i was ugly..when i wasnt. people are scums lol. jealousy is the root of all hatred in life. note that people every problem someone has with you. has its root in jealosuy.

humans are like vultures they prey on you when you are at your weakest. they brake you down in groups because they too weak to face you alone.

Oh this is only for women innit? My bad....I'm out.

LMAO!

i just had to respond to this!

i considered myself to be an ugly duckling. because i developed acne from i was about 12 and everything spiralled downhill from then! painful periods, i was skinny. i felt i was so skinny that for a good couple of years i never showed my arms or my bare legs even in summer! i dont know what the turning point was for me but on summer i thought fu*k it and i realised no-one noticed the insecurity was with myself.

my hair was healthy though and a good length but i used to do mad styles with it and put loads of gel in it. once this boy told me my hair was so greasy he could fry chicken on it! that was the last straw. I got my hair cut in a short style at 14. BIG mistake my hair took forever to level out and grow back. i was never allowed out, i had a 'boyfriend' at 15 and he used me so i felt ugly all over again.

it was only when i was 17/18 and i discovered makeup and clothes! i had a full time job and i worked in the middle of a busy centre so i was constantly making myself over. now at 23/24 i can say i have improved, my skin has cleared up (touch wood!) and i have filled out.

like a lot of you were saying a lot of the girls that i used to think were pretty have either had kids or look like it's been a hard life. i have even grown taller than them, i look like a woman now whereas they look like little girls. sometimes i feel like i'm glad i was not part of the 'in' crowd because it has made me more down to earth.

i still have my days when i wish i could change something about myself but i'm glad that i didnt start looking glam until now as i have learnt lessons about being judged by appearance and i try to not be that type of person to others.

This sort of applied to me... I was always the one with something wrong with her, guys would not date me and called me ugly and the girls would always have something ignorant to say which really messed with my esteem and I started to actually believe it. Now I'm out of HS, I run into a lot of these guys who are now severe losers on myspace or either facebook and they always send me a message about how beautiful I am and all the other jazz and I'm just laughing on the inside. And I have seen some of those girls lately and they already have about 8 kids and are looking really busted and miserable. My appearance has not changed much at all since I graduated and I just realized that they were really just jealous individuals.

Raah - shaka zulu posse

While I was never called ugly, I always felt that I wasn't as deserving as my brother who seemed to get everything and certainly more than I could ever expect. I did ok dating and making friends in school. I only suffered self esteem problems at home.