Celebrities Who Regret Their Past Red Carpet Choices: Rihanna, Eva Mendes, Gwyneth Paltrow and More

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley scolded herself about her outfit for the 2005 Ice Princess premiere, calling it “so bad I want to give you a zero, but I can’t, so I give you a one,” in a December 19, 2021, TikTok video. The actress wrote over the look, which featured 2 T-shirts, jeans and a gold glittery skirt over her pants, “When I decided to wear everything in my closet to a premiere.”

Ashley Tisdale Part 2

Ashley Tisdale explained that years ago, she used to be styled like her character in The Suite Life, explaining to PeopleStyle of this outfit she wore to the 2004 premiere of The Incredibles, “I wore this really weird pink camo skirt and this pink furry thing, I don’t even know what it was, but I said, ‘Ooh, put me in it!’ And instead of wearing it like you would normally wear it, I was like, ‘I am going to do it have one of my arms out and have it going across my body.’ It was the weirdest thing. At that point, you just have to laugh at yourself!”

Nick Jonas

In reminiscing about his brothers’ Ed Hardy phase on the red carpet, Nick Jonas told Racked they “had the hat, and the T-shirt, and the shoes — and the jeans, if you were lucky. Head to toe. Dark times. But we gotta go through the fire to come out knowing what to wear without looking insane.”

David and Victoria Beckham

“Me and Victoria wore matching black leather outfits once,” he told H&M magazine in 2012 regarding the outfits the pair wore to a Versace party in London in 1999. “They were Versace. But that’s one when I look back and am like, ‘What were we thinking?’”

Eva Mendes 2007 ‘Ghost Rider’ Premiere

Eva’s lavender gown was lovely, but her overall look just didn’t come together for the red carpet. “I had my dress on but I had to finish my hair and makeup in the back of an SUV,” she later told NBC Latino. “It was a beautiful dress, but the way I put everything together, it was a Princess Jasmine gone wrong. The strapless, purple dress with necklaces and hair in a really high braid. It’s not a good look.”

Bella Hadid’s 2016 Cannes Gown

Bella Hadid wore a very sexy Alexandre Vauthier red dress with a hip-high slit on the Croisette at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. She revealed to Vogue in 2021 that, “I was very nervous in this dress. I look very sexual.” She continued, “I kind of get embarrassed about this moment still even though the dress is gorgeous. It just, again, doesn’t feel so much like me and I think this was the start of the Bella persona that everyone sees in me.”

Bella joked of the racy look, “That’s my alter ego. That’s Belinda. I’m just so the opposite of her. She’s very va-va-voom. You know, bless her. Love her. She was very nervous.”

Kate Hudson’s 2001 Oscars Gown

Kate Hudson has been crushing it all throughout the 2001 awards season for her performance in Almost Famous. But her youthful spark was gone in a grey Stella McCartney dress with a neck capelet when she hit the Oscars red carpet. Her gorgeous long blonde hair being pulled up in tight ringlet curls helped make the look an even bigger miss, landing her on many worst-dressed lists the next day.

“I was 21 years old and to have Stella McCartney dressing me – well I felt like the hippest, coolest girl in the world,” she said while presenting the designer with a British Fashion Award in 2011. “I woke up the next morning in my bed post-awards and without a little statuette on my bedside. I turned on the television to find out I was on every worst-dressed list possible. So, I called Stella and we just laughed our asses off and she said to me, ‘Look babe, it was the hair, wasn’t it?'”

Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2002 Oscars Gown

Gwyneth found herself on Oscars qorst-dressed lists everywhere for her braless Alexander McQueen gown, heavy black eyeliner and severe, tight braids. In a 2014 Goop newsletter, she admitted, “There were a few issues; I still love the dress itself, but I should have worn a bra and I should have just had simple beachy hair and less makeup,” she said. “Then, it would have worked as I wanted it to – a little bit of punk at the Oscars.”

Diane Kruger’s 2005 Golden Globes Dress

For her very first Golden Globe Awards in 2005, actress Diane Kruger wore a bizarre look consisting of a bandeau top with a long front panel that turned into her skirt. She also wore her blonde hair in short, 1920s style waves.

Diane told InStyle in 2014: “I love Marchesa, I love [designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig] and I don’t know why we talked ourselves into this dress. It was gold and my belly was exposed, but I decided to do retro hair, I had a short bob then. It was not a good look, and I think that will be remembered.”

Selena Gomez’s 2007 Skinny Jeans and Sneakers

Selena Gomez attended her first red carpet premiere in June 2007 for the movie Surf’s Up. She later came to regret her black skinny jeans and sneakers combo. The singer/actress told  Hollywood Life: “I remember going on my first red carpet with skinny jeans and sneakers like, ‘awesome, this is not a look that I would do ever again’ … I feel like when I wore sneakers and a lot of jeans to red carpets, my stylist was really mortified.”

Rihanna’s 2014 CFDA Thong

One of Rihanna’s most iconic outfits of all time comes with a big regret. Her sheer, Swarovski-crystal-encrusted Adam Selman literally left almost nothing to the imagination, with the only undergarment being a nude thong that did not glitter like the rest of her ensemble.

She later told Vogue: “I just liked [the dress] better without the lines underneath. Could you imagine the CFDA dress with a bra? I would slice my throat. I already wanted to, for wearing a thong that wasn’t bedazzled. That’s the only regret I have in life.”

Eva Longoria’s 2001 ‘Tomb Raider’ Premiere Leather Suit

Eva Longoria is a style icon today. But in 2001, she wore a tan leather pantsuit made up of panels, no bra and a feather necklace to the Los Angeles Tomb Raider premiere.

She told Health magazine in 2017, “It was very appropriate for Tomb Raider, but it was almost like I was going to a theme party,” she said. “The rest I just look back and go, ‘Ugh, that was the style. It’s like a time capsule, and there is a decade of me just showing my stomach. Like, ‘OK, Eva, can you stop wearing a crop top? Must you wear a crop top on every red carpet you go to?'”

Miley Cyrus’ 2011 Premiere Look

Miley looks back and cringes at some of her fashion choices from her late teens as she was trying to shake her Hannah Montana image. She wore a mismatched hippie/boho-style ensemble to a 2011 Justin Bieber documentary premiere and later told Marie Claire: “I had some shady wardrobe choices when I was about 16 to 18. I wore this hippie outfit to Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never premiere that I’m like, ‘Girl, who told you — it was not Woodstock, it was a premiere.'”