Anna Kendrick’s Response to People Calling Her “Ugly” is Brilliant — Plus 9 More Stars Whose Looks Are Often Scrutinized

Not pretty enough?! Believe it or not, they were told that…

Jessica Chastain

Can you believe ANYONE told the "Zero Dark Thirty" actress that she was "ugly"?! Neither can we — but it happened to her during her younger years.

"[As a child] I was told every day at school that I was ugly. And that no one wanted to be my friend. The most cruel things," she told the November 2014 issue of Glamour. "If I can do anything to help young girls and to be a cheerleader for people who sometimes have low self-esteem, I want to do that."

Lizzy Caplan

When the Masters of Sex star was starting off as an actress and auditioned for roles on several now-defunct WB shows, she was told she wasn't pretty enough!

"[My friend Lindsay Sloane and I] wanted to get T-shirts made that said, 'I AM WB PRETTY!' because we'd just been told, 'Oh, she's great, but she doesn't have that WB look.'" she told Los Angeles Confidential.

Lea Michele

"When I was 15, my mother and I went to meet a manager who said, 'You have to get a nose job in order for me to work with you' … My mother would say to me, 'Barbra Streisand never got a nose job. You’re not getting a nose job,'" the Glee star told The New York Daily News in 2011.

Sally Field

Prior to the film release of Sybil, Sally spoke out about some negative comments she had received in reference to her appearance in an interview with The Academy of Achievement:

"Sybil was coming out, and everyone said, 'Whoa, the work is extraordinary…but man is Sally Field ugly!'" she said.

Whitney Cummings

In 2012, the comedian told Vulture:

"I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn’t pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn’t have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate."

Winona Ryder

Early in Winona's acting career, she faced a casting director's disparaging comments about her future in the biz.

"I was in the middle of auditioning, and I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, 'Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to where you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it,'" she told Interview magazine.

Nia Vardalos

"This agent I was once working with said, 'You are not fat enough to be a character actress, and you’re not pretty enough to be a leading lady. Plus, there are no Greek roles. So I can no longer represent you.'… I was like, don’t hold anything back. Speak your mind. Then she dropped me," the My Big Fat Greek Wedding star told More Magazine in 2012.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica has long been criticized for her looks — she was even once named "Unsexiest Woman Alive" by Maxim Magazine — but she told Allure Magazine of one specific negative remark in 2008:

“For so long, I didn’t play the object of attention or affection. It wasn’t until L.A. Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just wasn’t examined in the same way that a ‘pretty girl’ would be,” she said.

Kat Dennings

The 2 Broke Girls actress said in a 2012 New York Times profile that casting agents told her to "tighten up your teeth, dye your hair, lose weight, get a tan."