‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Star Aimee Lou Wood’s Quotes About Her Teeth, Veneers and More

Aimee Lou Wood’s Teeth Haven’t Cost Her Jobs

Aimee’s natural teeth didn’t get in the way of being cast as Aimee Gibbs on Netflix’s Sex Education in 2019, although they made her wrong for another role on the show.

“I went in three times to read for Lily, and I thought she suited me because she was originally supposed to wear braces. I just thought, ‘It’s a Netflix show, I’m not going to get on there with my teeth,'” she told Stylist in 2020. “But they ended up calling me back for Aimee, and she just is me.”

Aimee Lou Wood Doesn’t Consider Her Teeth a Barrier When it Comes to Landing Roles

“It’s completely in my head. It’s a myth I’ve told myself. I had it in my brain that I’m not conventional-looking enough and that’s a mental barrier I’ve had to overcome,” Aimee revealed to Stylist, saying she doesn’t think her teeth have been a barrier in her career.

Aimee Lou Wood’s Fans Have Raved About Her Natural Teeth

“I’d always be super confident when I went to theatre auditions but if it was a TV thing, I’d be so shocked when I got a recall. I sometimes thought, ‘Oh, a Channel 4 thing, I might have a chance on there.’ Then Sex Education came along, and I was like, ‘Well, what have I seen on Netflix? Everyone has perfect Hollywood teeth,'” Aimee told Stylist about her initial insecurities about her teeth after landing the part on the Netflix show.

“And now, of course, I’m getting hundreds of messages from people going, ‘Oh my god, you’ve got teeth like mine. Now I go to school and people think I’m cool because I look like Aimee, instead of it being Bugs Bunny or whatever,'” she added.

Aimee Lou Wood Credits Model Georgia May Jagger With Making Natural Teeth Cool

“Georgia May Jagger became the face of Rimmel London when I was at school and all of a sudden it went from me being goofy to, ‘Oh, you’re a bit of a model, aren’t you?’ So, I want to thank Georgia May Jagger for representing the buck teeth,” Aimee told the outlet.

Aimee Lou Wood Worries That Her Teeth Might Make It Hard to Play an American Character

While Aimee Lou’s character on The White Lotus hails from Manchester, England, like herself, she fears her teeth are too English to convincingly play an American.

“It’s the teeth. Like, no Americans have my teeth. They just don’t. I’d have to get veneers. Because … I think that genuinely is like one of the things,” the Daddy Issues actress told On Demand Entertainment in February 2025.

Aimee recalled meeting a man in a bar after he saw her performance in a Chicago play, where her character was American.

“This guy after in the bar was like … he was talking to me, and I spoke to him, and I spoke like this, and he went, ‘I knew it. I knew it,'” she said. “Cause he was like, ‘Your accent was great, but I knew you weren’t American. You just don’t look American.’”

Aimee Lou Wood Feels ‘Rebellious’ About Her Teeth on ‘The White Lotus’

“All I ever do is take the piss out of myself. Even the way [White Lotus fans] are talking about me and my teeth — that I don’t have veneers or Botox — it feels a bit rebellious,” Aimee Lou told The Hollywood Reporter in a March 2025 interview about not measuring up to Tinseltown’s typical beauty standards.