Same deal with Sandra Oh, Sarah Jessica Parker, Barbra Streisand and Xtina. If you're going to get all technical about it, their faces don't have the greatest classical composition in the world. Christina, for one, looks like she can open a beer bottle with her top lip.

But all of these girls have figures that could start a full-on hot war between Pakistan and India. They also have head-turning personal styles and a way of carrying themselves-a message that screams, "Yes, I am attractive." And if the charisma is high enough, that message becomes a kind of reality.

You ask if having a hit TV show makes someone more attractive. No, but it can serve as a showcase for people to flaunt what they've got-a way for a girl with middling looks to prove she can hold her own on a red carpet next to Angelina or Beyoncé.

Look at any rerun of Sex and the City. Watch how SJP seduces a guy using little more than a cocktail straw and those massive peepers. Charisma. Now SJP also stars in ads for beauty products, like hair color and a perfume called Lovely.

"If she hadn't had that TV role, she wouldn't have made it as a model or actress," confirms image consultant Sandy Dumont.

There is also a theory that America's standards of beauty are loosening, becoming more open, more, well, European.

"Maybe we're growing up a bit," Dumont posits. "The way Europeans talk about wine, we talk about wine. Now, maybe, we're beginning to accept people who aren't perfect looking."

And isn't that what the ladies have always wanted?

"Women have been complaining for decades that there aren't enough 'real'-looking women in Hollywood for them to relate to," says New York makeup artist Jillian Villafane, who has groomed some of the Desperate Housewives cast for talk-show appearances.

"So, to say that Jen Aniston or SJP are unattractive is as good as insulting the masses. Isn't it a wonderful thing that society has become more open-minded about what makes a person attractive?"

Source: eOnline
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