People who were great looking for only 5 to 10 years, max.

This guy...

This guy was beautiful in 2015

Now..... not so much

Patrick Mahomes will end up here. Such a beautiful babyface, but the type of looks that will not last.

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Me. Fml.

Me. (not female)

The British royal family really owns this thread.

Look at Edward.

Tom Hiddleston. His looks absolutely decayed after the Taylor Swift debacle.

Prince Andrew had a brief moment of hotness too.

R9, he ugly. He ugly then; he ugly now.

Gerard Butler. Russell Crowe.

I actually think Hugh Grant's looks held up very well, r4. Like Rob Lowe.

Now, Lowe's erstwhile co-star James Spader is a different story (although admittedly it took more than 10 years).

Brendan Fraser is another tragic example.

In the mid 40's, she was sensational.

From the 50's onward she was perfectly fine look wise, but the magic was gone.

Agree British Royals - as the archetype of the horrible British /Irish aging process. So beautiful before 28 then swiftly downhill. Envy the white skin and entitlement - but karma is a bitch when it comes to aging.

Young Princess Margaret, for sure.

I saw Anderson Cooper in 1999 at The Works on the UWS. He was unknown , for the most part then. He was on ABC News Overnight , which went on around 2am. I don't recall being attracted to him even then.

Prnce Harry and his gramps, although grandpa held onto his looks for almost a 100 years

I've always thought Anderson Cooper looked like a bottle of Elmer's glue, but to each his own. (He's much shorter and paler in person.)

R20, Anderson has referred to himself as “an amoeba-like creature”.

the one that always surprised me was Brooke Shields. She was such a stunning teenager but as she got older she lost a lot of that beauty.

R22- TRUE

She was STUNNING at 15 and merely pretty at 25.

Do DL Queens agree that Anderson Cooper looks a bit ALBINO.

I'd say Alec Baldwin had a good 10-year run (mid-80s to mid-90s) before the booze, bloat, and bloviating really took hold.

George Segal had his hot moment in the 60s... but it didn't last.

Brendan Fraser. From George of the Jungle to Brendan of the Bagel Bakery.

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Shelley Winters had a brief period as a red hot mama, but I don't know if that lasted even five years. I do think that's where her confidence and on-screen charisma came from.

R14/R15, wow! Seems to match the Joan Crawford trajectory, where they favored bolder eyebrows with age and that took something away. Pre-code Joan Crawford was breathtaking, and then her eyebrows took over.

To be fair, a major part of Brendan's change in appearance is due to the accident he had doing a lot of damage to his body.

R26- I watched the 1977 movie Fun With Dick And Jane about 3 months ago and George Segal was still GOOD looking.

Jason Patric. Of course, he's not hideous or anything now. But he was sublime.

Cindy Crawford

Uh, most people’s pretty/Handsome/cute/hot window isn’t even that long.

Most DLers - 1948-1951

Cindy Crawford has had some weird work done--injectables? partial lift? She doesn't look terrible, just a bit strange and pulled.

Cindy and Brooke Shields both have "horseface" syndrome--faces and features lengthening over time, including pronounced jawlines. (I don't know if either of them is a classic WASP, but I associate this with really WASPy women.)

Still "handsome" women, but nowhere near the heartstopping loveliness of their youth.

Ashley Judd has looked terrible for over a decade.

[quote] She was STUNNING at 15 and merely pretty at 25. [Brooke Shields.]

I can't remember whether this comment was about Brooke Shields or Julia Roberts. Somebody I know saw them in person and said that the head was tiny in comparison to the body.

The royals: eyes too close together on almost all of them. Plus, maybe the consanguinity (cousins marrying) has an effect on the aging process.

German Bodybuilder/ "Gladiator" film actor Rolf Moeller around age 26 & then at around age 59 =

Belinda Carlisle slimmed down after the Go-Go's broke up & looked her best during her debut album in the summer of 1986.

A decade later she was a redhead with about another foot of hair length & starting getting too much plastic surgery done.

Princess Diana really morphed into an actual sculpted beauty after 30, when she lost the baby fat and her cheekbones and longer head matched her long nose. The last 5 years she became a truly beautiful woman.

After George and pre-Luis, Kate Middleton was at her best. For some reason she looked younger and had a better glow than at her wedding where she was kind of sallow and of course, now she looks tired. Some women are like that. An ex gf of mine was cute enough in high school but when I saw her 10 years ago at 35 she was a stunner. Of course, now she has gone through a messy divorce and looks tired. Maybe hormones between pregnancies.

My beautiful Mickey Rourke, RIP.

Desi Arnaz

A lot of people will disagree, but Elizabeth Taylor had a very small window when she was truly beautiful. She became dumpy and matronly looking very early in life.

Brooke and Cindy (especially Cindy) need to lay off the HGH. It brings out a mannish look.

I have seen Brooke Shields in real life and she has a normal sized head. Not tiny, it is in proportion to her body.

So did Grace Kelly.

Although I don't look a day over 19, I was most visually stunning from 20 - 30. I think this is pretty typical for most people.

[quote] I was most visually stunning from 20 - 30.

Fortunately you’re only 35, Ms. Zeta-Jones, so I’m sure you are close to being as visually stunning as you were at 30.

R47 Tall women like Brooke and many models tend to have generally more masculine features, that when younger may make them look stunning. Tall women are exposed to more testosterone proportionally compared to shorter/ petite women during puberty. Shorter women get the surges of estrogen earlier in puberty thus causing bone growth plates to mature quicker e.g. stop growing. It’s why there’s the controversial treatment of giving very tall girls estrogen in their teens to make them stop growing any taller.

Notice models like Brooke, Gisele, many of the famous supers of the 90s-2000s had the same thing happen to them as they age too because women start to have lower estrogen in their mid-30s onward. Brooke Shield in her late 30s and 40s had a very masculine face.

Jude Law

Ralph Fiennes

Lauren Bacall - Her face hardened pretty early. Gorgeous in her late teens, early 20s, though.

R33 he still does look good....looks nothing like his father, Jason Miller.

Look at these supers and how aging masculinizes the face. Cindy before fillers and major work done was looking more like she was going down the Brooke Shield route. Now Cindy just looks overly surgeried. Shalom Harlow could pass for trans now. Nikki Taylor looks pretty good.

Patric still looks pretty good from the neck up, but he's really chubbed out.

Diane Lane was STUNNING in A Little Romance (1979) one figured she would be stunning as an adult. She was only merely PRETTY by her 20's.

Leonard Whiting from the Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet. He went from being a world class beauty to a balding, overweight schlub in a seriously short amount of time.

[quote] One day you're a supermodel... then you're just another fat frau.

One can’t tell with Ypir because outside her photo shoots in the 70s, she wears a niqab in her increasingly rare public appearances.

Sylvester Stallone

Some maintain their beauty for decades, and look more graceful as they age.

R28 Linda only became chubby after she was awarded tons of money from Salma Hayek's French billionaire husband (he was fucking and impregnating both at the same time).

Linda never has to worry about money/never need to work and can enjoy eating for once in her life.

All you people making fun of what people looked like in the past, lets see your picture and what you look like.

Syd Barrett before.

Syd after.

R63 fuck off, Frau.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Akward as a teenager, breathtakingly beautiful from age 20 to 22, handsome but already somewhat hardened/bitter looking from 23 – 30. After that, things went downhill fast. By 35, he was pretty much unrecognizable from his heartthrob days.

Kate Moss: unique, ethereal, almost alien-esque beauty as a teenager, but while she was still a very attractive woman in her 20s and early 30s, she didn't have that je ne sais quoi anymore imo; the magic was gone. I think part of it was that she started losing volume in her lips very early, and those big, luscious, beautifully curved lips were crucial to her appeal. Her mouth even became somewhat weird/distorted-looking with age.

Gisele: Never a conventional beauty, but in her teens and VERY early 20s, she had a spark, an energy, an earthy sensuality that made her stand out. Whatever it was, it was pretty much gone by 21. While the loss of baby fat and her already strong features hardening with age couldn't have helped matters, it seemed more like psychological issue to me than a mere case of 'bad aging'.

William Petersen

Now not so good

Paul McCartney was sort of good looking for about five years. Who knew the cute one would turn out so hideously?

Mark Hamill

Cooper looks like a huskie on meth

Marlon Brando

I reckon Anderson Cooper stayed hot a long time. I'd still go there now

[quote]Mark Hamill

A car accident is to blame for his short lived beauty.

Olivier Martinez owns this thread

I agree with R1.the bleached top hair & eyebrows in comparison to darker hair above ears is such a turn on. A real rugged outdoorsy kind of guy

But he really inherited his mother's mental illness

He's passionless

Not Harry though. While suffering a nervous breakdown it won't erase what a spitfire he is

Wish them both well

Brit actor Albert Finney, around the time of TOM JONES, 1963.

OP has his moments when he suffers angst of not being "white" or good-looking We've all recognized it by now

OP, get your swarthy ass up NOW. Change those sheets. Mop the floor

OMG!? Have you tried those Mr.Clean Magic Erasers?

So addicting. Such little effort. Start w/the chrome in the shower

I never realized the similarity between young Albert Finney and Ewan Mcgregor!

Even a few years after TOM JONES, his boyish beauty was fading. Here he is in TWO FOR THE ROAD in 1967.

R70- PRETTY boys NEVER age well.

Vivien Leigh's looks changed dramatically from "Gone With the Wind" to "A Streetcar Named Desire".

1939 - 1951

R56, Well, his grandfather was Jackie Gleason.

R26, Jewish men do not age well.

R56 Jaon Patric is one of the most self important twits of the 90's. Karma is a boomerang. He gets everything he deserves. Lets hope he can pay his rent next month.

R85, Julia Roberts got to fuck him at his hottest.

R67- Leonardo DeCaprio was NEVER breathtakingly ANYTHING.

R87, He was breathtakingly bland.

Lara Flynn Boyle. Not sure what happened but bless her heart. Likely health issues.

Elizabeth Montgomery - BEAUTIFUL only in her 30's.

Jason Patric owns this thread.

Most of us were young and beautiful in our 20s.

Jonathan Rhys Myers. Alcohol kills you slowly, but murders your looks pretty quick.

Same thing with Michael Biehn: gorgeous, then he hit the bottle.

Helmut Berger owns this thread. Peerlessly beautiful for about 7 years and then.... yikes! He’s literally unrecognizable now from his heyday.

Clive Owen , who I still love looks terrible.

You queens are listing people who looked good for 30 years, but are old now. This is for people who were BRIEFLY attractive.

Anthony Perkins; Alec Baldwin; Rebecca DeMornay; Tanya Roberts; Jayne Mansfield; Montgomery Clift; Richard Burton; Mickey Rourke...

Matthew Perry. He never looked better than when he was on drugs - he was thin and tan and blond and only had one chin. And then he got sober and bloated and was never the same. Of course he was never as handsome as his father.

[41] Belinda C was amazingly beautiful during her blonde, slim 80s era. She did look good as a redhead but like all dyed redheads she keeps dyeing it red even through her hair has thinned a bit and lost it's lustre with age. She looks incredibly terrible in the 2020 Go-Gos doco - all that surgery has really ruined her.

The thing about Bacall was that she kept her looks much later in life than many other people have. Also, though I agree she was exquisite as a young woman, I never minded her "harsher" appearance because I've always associated it with her noir roles, and those are the ones I really enjoy. The Bacall of "The Big Sleep" is more interesting than the Bacall of "To Have and Have Not" in part because she looks like she's had experience.

Agree with r97: this thread is for people who were only hot for a very brief period, under 10 years, ideally under 5.

So for example, Vivien Leigh's appearance change over the 12 years between GWTW and Streetcar does not qualify. And neither do the erstwhile supermodels mentioned above, who -- while perhaps they didn't retain their exceptional attractiveness for that long -- still qualify as generically attractive into their 50's.

Remember, not everyone can keep their looks unchanged from age 21 to 61 like us here on DL!

Helmut Berger is a great example. Ironic that he once played Dorian Gray -- I bet he wishes he had a portrait in his attic!

William Wales is the perfect example of this happening. His beauty was real but it was fleeting.

Leonard Whiting. Stunning in 1968 while filming Romeo and Juliet. By '69 his looks were already going.

[R98] Mansfield is a great example. Hard-living and alcohol bloat really took the toll on her looks. She looked 10 years older than she actually was by time she died. She’d been stunning in her heyday. Oddly, her later years dissipation is a part of her strange legend. For me anyway.

I find Joe Perry of Aerosmith to be very hot when very young and then not at all a few years later.

Jan-Michael Vincent

Clive Owen who I still love looks terrible and has for awhile now. English actors seem to have a short life span looks wise.

Buster Keaton. Alcohol ravaged his face.

No OP. Anderson Cooper was never "great looking"....

Drunken Repug has-been Vince Vaughn had exactly one weekend (ca SWINGERS) where he was stunning (and slim).

More hot Vince.

Harry "KC" Casey from KC and the Sunshine Band.

HOT AS FUCK for like five years MAX...now he's hideous.

Julian Sands was beautiful in "A Room with a View" and then went downhill, not fast, but slowly.

I always had a thing for a very young Mark Hamill. But a car accident in his 20s and (I've heard) a lot of drinking and smoking really ruined him.

R51 So that explains it...that makes a lot of sense. Gisele always looked like a transvestite to me. Makes me wonder a bit about hubby Tom...

R51 That makes sense. I was born in the 1980s, so I first heard of Brooke Shields when she had her "comeback" in the 90s. People raved about what a "great beauty" she was, and while she was pleasant enough looking, I just didn't see it. Later, I saw Endless Love on cable and I got it.

The models that seem to fare the best with age are the ones with delicate features like Christy Turlington.

Most of the models who look masculine now were masculine looking while young, it had nothing to do with their height. Look at the models from before the glamazon trend, they don't look trans to me. Twiggy, Paulina Porizkova, Jean Shrimpton etc. All tall women who did not look masculine later in life.

But Brendan back in the day... (sigh)

Anderson looks good in 2021

Flo was never sexy

R119 Twiggy was only 5'6". She looked taller because of her build.