Stars Who Have Complained About Being Too Beautiful

For her role on HBO’s “Shameless,” Emmy Rossum often goes with minimal makeup to play Fiona Gallagher, a young 20-something struggling to provide for her five younger siblings. But the 26-year-old actress almost didn’t land the role – and says her beauty was to blame. “They didn't want to see me,” she said to Manhattan magazine in January about having to convince the producers to see her. “They wouldn't even [let me] audition. They thought my ... more 

For her role on HBO’s “Shameless,” Emmy Rossum often goes with minimal makeup to play Fiona Gallagher, a young 20-something struggling to provide for her five younger siblings. But the 26-year-old actress almost didn’t land the role – and says her beauty was to blame. “They didn't want to see me,” she said to Manhattan magazine in January about having to convince the producers to see her. “They wouldn't even [let me] audition. They thought my image too glamorous, that I couldn't not be pretty." less