I see people all the time who are just as pretty as movie stars.  I see them in the street.  I see them in restaurants, shops, offices, parks and houses.

People in movies are, to be fair, generally not ugly.  They tend not to be obese, or to have horrible birthmarks, or to look like they were hit in the face with the ugly stick.

But it's easy to forget that when you see a famous person on TV or in a movie, they've had several people work on them to make them look gorgeous, and they then get shot from nice directions with great lighting.

This is even more true when it comes to photos.  There's a retouching site here that I hadn't seen before - where you can see photos which have appeared in various places, and then see how that person actually looks.  And realise, that actually, while these people aren't _ugly_, they don't look as good as their official image.

I wonder how it feels to have everyone think you don't look as good as they thought you did.

You can see why people disassociate from their public personas.  They aren't who they are, they just play themselves on TV.