I'm a natural 7 out of 10. This is how I became a 9 aged 50: ROSIE GREEN reveals the beauty secrets that have improved her looks - and will work for ANY woman
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It all comes back to the playground. I was seven, had a permanent runny nose, a bowl haircut and was dressed in my (male) cousin’s hand-me-downs. I was not attractive. And I knew it instinctively. I wanted to be Trina, with her blonde pigtails and her ra-ra dress from BHS.
![[Rosie and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Los Angeles, late 1990s]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/12/13/93080005-14185879-image-a-69_1734009288005.jpg)
Even then I could see that, thanks to winsome looks, Trina’s life was more charmed than mine. Grown-ups were nicer to her, other girls wanted to invite her to their parties. She was dull as dishwater, but her cute face more than compensated for her mediocre personality.
![[Rosie with Donna Air at an awards ceremony, circa 2000]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/12/13/93080011-14185879-image-a-70_1734009306597.jpg)
. My childhood self was witnessing ‘pretty privilege’ in action. As humans we are instinctively drawn to beautiful faces, a fact proven by studies that show even babies look at attractive people for longer. We might like to think that, as society progresses, we’d favour other attributes over looks, but modern-day research suggests they are still an important factor in how our lives play out. Daniel Hamermesh at the University of Texas in Austin has spent his career studying pulchronomics (the economics of beauty), which shows that right now, in 2024, your attractiveness affects your life experience dramatically. Good-looking people earn more, live longer and reside in more affluent areas. They are also less likely to be sentenced to death in a US court.
My real-life experience shows me no one is immune to beauty’s seductive power. I’ve met towering intellectuals, strident leftwingers and feminists, all of whom have been reduced to simpering fools in the presence of supermodels. Even the most erudite man can’t help but steal a glance at an attractive woman on the train. It’s instinctive.
