{"id":6314,"date":"2026-07-17T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:07:11","slug":"people-considered-me-ugly-as-a-child-now-i-know-they-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6314","title":{"rendered":"People considered me ugly as a child. Now, I know they were wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/span>\u00a0 Stephanie Fairyington is a journalist in Brooklyn, New York, and author of a new memoir and aesthetic social history called \u201cUgly: A Letter to My Daughter.\u201d This piece is based on her book. A pseudonym is used for a family member to protect her privacy.\n<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6302\">Trump regulator orders Kalshi to defy Michigan court \u2013 escalating battle over prediction markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            I was 10 years old the first time I was basically told I was ugly.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            After a swim in my family\u2019s pool, I was racing up and down the street with the neighborhood kids in the cul-de-sac where I grew up when a woman bunched up her nose and lobbed a barbed question: \u201cWho\u2019s that?\u201d she asked a fellow mom, the one all the kids loved. \u201cOh, that\u2019s Chrysi\u2019s daughter.\u201d (Not my mom\u2019s real name.) The woman replied incredulously, \u201cThat\u2019s <em>Chrysi\u2019s <\/em>daughter?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            I didn\u2019t hear the response. I only remember retreating from the scene of pool-drenched kids shrieking this way and that on Cord Avenue in Downey, California. I pretended I needed to use the bathroom and went home.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            I had already  understood that the aesthetic chasm between my mother\u2019s traditional good looks and my own was wide. But I\u2019d never heard, until that moment, anyone outwardly express what I inwardly felt. My mom, perhaps sensing the silent critiques, always tried hard to convince me that I was \u201cbeautiful,\u201d but it was difficult to believe when the culture was telling me otherwise.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It wasn\u2019t until I came out in my late teens that I found my community \u2014 and felt attractive for the first time in my life.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20260625-pride-teacher-student-FINAL.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6309\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/003860dcfdcb906e1f8a11027eef4f31.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Photo Illustration by Jason Lancaster\/CNN\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Every time a college student comes out to me, I learn more about pride<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>6  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Tomboy daughter of the popular girl\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            At 10, I\u2019d already gone through puberty. I had a full face of acne, alarming buckteeth and an ample bust. My tomboy getups \u2014 a mix of ratty T-shirts, surfer shorts, scuffed-up Chuck Taylor low-tops, and knees covered in scabs and bruises from failed skateboard tricks, began to attract curious once-overs.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            My mom \u2014 blue-eyed, blond-haired, full-lipped and high cheekboned \u2014 looked like she belonged in a 1980s ad for a chic label: big feathered do, semi-maximal makeup and bright, fitted clothes for the golf course.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When she was a teenager, her peers anointed her best figure, biggest flirt, best sense of humor, and runner-up for prom queen in high school. Her life then was parties, cigarettes, beer and make-out sessions with her schools\u2019 most desirable boys. Mine was lunch in the library, social obscurity, bulky clothes that desexualized me and total inhibition.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In fact, I\u2019ve long attributed our highly divergent experiences in the world to her genetic luck and success \u2014 and my failure \u2014 at \u201cperforming\u201d pretty.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Whenever people learned I was her daughter, their faces would recoil like they had just smelled something unpleasant. The fact that she was my mother was unbelievable \u2014 and seemed to inspire contempt. That animosity, I believe on reflection, had something to do with my patent inability to fulfill my duty to cultural imperatives around femininity, beauty and male desire.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephanie Fairyington's book,\" class=\"wp-image-6310\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08e614d1f67173c1f15c3a20a2b07d86.jpg\" width=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08e614d1f67173c1f15c3a20a2b07d86.jpg 683w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/08e614d1f67173c1f15c3a20a2b07d86-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Stephanie Fairyington&#8217;s book, &#8220;Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter,&#8221; explores queer motherhood and unconventional beauty.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Pantheon<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            My subpar looks, however, weren\u2019t the only thing that made me a curiosity to onlookers. Tomboy clothes and ways are cute on prepubescent girls, but underneath my boyish outfits, I looked like a grown woman, a gender outlaw, a freak.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            My friend\u2019s parents weren\u2019t the only ones who saw something peculiar \u2014 queer \u2014 about me. My schoolmates saw something crooked about me, too. As much as I tried to hide any signs of my queerness with my teased-up bangs fixed in hairspray and fake interest in boys, something about me didn\u2019t land \u201cright.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Walking behind a friend in fifth grade, I overheard her tell a mutual pal she thought I was a lesbian. How did she zero in on that in elementary school? Was it the goofy way I behaved around girls to make them laugh? Was it the way my gender didn\u2019t quite align with femininity? Was it something about the way I moved?\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            To call someone a lesbian back then was to call them ugly. In some ways, it still is.  Historian Lillian Faderman has documented a long history that shows the ways society sought to thwart the goals of feminism by lesbianizing women who rallied for their rights. \u201cLesbian\u201d was shorthand for \u201cmasculine\u201d or \u201cabnormal woman\u201d and thus ugly.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6300\">Barack Obama hasn\u2019t endorsed a Michigan Senate candidate. An AIPAC-linked group is spending millions on ads with him anyway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            In every direction, I seemed to register as odd and unappealing \u2014 and it mirrored how I saw and felt about myself. That feeling of \u201cnot-rightness\u201d shadowed me, like a bully who never lets up, through my adolescence.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GettyImages-1344776943.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6311\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3c815fb1b37d343d2800e17911384ede.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>eclipse_images\/E+\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>What you\u2019re getting wrong about feeling loved, according to relationship experts<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>6  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Shedding \u2018not-rightness\u2019\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Things started to shift when I came out at age 19 and started hanging out in San Diego\u2019s Hillcrest, an LGBTQ neighborhood, where a more expansive definition of beauty and desirability thrived and nearly every iteration of woman could register as attractive.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Down the runway of those gay streets, you could be a \u201cwoman of size,\u201d to tap \u201cBad Feminist\u201d author and cultural critic Roxane Gay\u2019s useful phrase, or bony thin. You could have a deep voice and big muscles, or a high voice and no muscles at all. You could be hairy and tall or bald and short. You could be flat-chested with a sexy swagger like Shane McCutcheon on \u201cThe L Word\u201d or big-bosomed in high heels with sleeves of tattoos on your arms. You could be dark goth or candy goth. Or you could be a typical tomboy like me.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author Stephanie Fairyington says that defying traditional beauty standards raised her self-confidence.\" class=\"wp-image-6312\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a1a248eabcd4bd1a4482f32fda740ae5-768x960.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a1a248eabcd4bd1a4482f32fda740ae5-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a1a248eabcd4bd1a4482f32fda740ae5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a1a248eabcd4bd1a4482f32fda740ae5.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Author Stephanie Fairyington says that defying traditional beauty standards raised her self-confidence.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sabrina Weiss<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The style configurations seemed limitless, and every type of woman or man seemed uniquely desirable \u2014 stunning in their own startling way.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            I spent two years stomping on those queer-affirming pavements in my usual tomboy duds, sometimes even venturing into shape-defining clothes with a mild dose of makeup. I wanted to be visible, and any which way I presented, I feltmore confident in who I was and what I looked like.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            I had not changed to fit into the current definition of beauty, but my cultural context had. In the queer community, the definition of what reads as attractive is far wider and more diverse than in the mainstream. Certainly, a fuller experience of self-esteem is one that doesn\u2019t rely on external approval, but narrow ideas of what makes someone attractive make it more difficult for certain individuals \u2014 whether due to race, body type or gender expression \u2014 to feel adequate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That\u2019s not to say that conventional good looks aren\u2019t an aspiration in queer culture. Of course, they are. The pressures to look a certain way \u2014 hypermasculine, muscular and stylish, for example, among certain subsets of gay men, can be just as harsh and punishing. But just by virtue of being in a setting where people congregated because they didn\u2019t fit in opened a space for existing against the norm. There was room for me to see myself outside traditional paradigms of beauty and to play with \u2014 or poke fun at \u2014 what it means to be a woman.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Over time, especially today as a 50-year-old woman, I\u2019m better able to take my space and honor my own way of being \u2014 and appearing\u2014 in the world without as much of the angst and discomfort I experienced as a younger person.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That might be because of the invisibility that comes with age in our youth-centric culture \u2014 it\u2019s a much less pressured existence five decades in, and I don\u2019t feel as seen and critiqued. But it\u2019s also the result of years spent in queer enclaves in San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where it\u2019s OK to be as freaky or as \u201cnormal\u201d as you want.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"best-50th-birthday-cnnu.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-6313\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/30d6199c9a84a7caa09e1ddb7cfca4ae.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Molly Flores\/CNN Underscored<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>The 38 best 50th birthday gifts that are truly milestone-worthy (Courtesy CNN Underscored)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            At the Pride Festival in Brooklyn, New York, with my 10-year-old daughter and her best friend a few weekends ago, they saw full-figured women \u2014 and men \u2014 proudly showcasing big bellies in tie-dyed and sequined tank tops, large-haired bedazzled drag queens full of sass and fun, and customized T-shirts with messages affirming trans rights. The event captured a modern-day vision of what I saw on University Avenue in Hillcrest back in the 1990s.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When we got home, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about how lucky they were to get an early introduction to a more expansive definition of gender, sexuality and aesthetics. I might have felt less ugly if I\u2019d known earlier on that there was a broader definition of beauty that included me.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n    Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN\u2019s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being.\n<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6290\">Bronze Age \u2018shaman,\u2019 previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defying traditional beauty standards, Stephanie Fairyington felt ugly as a child. 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