I agree that some attractive people have low self-esteem, but not because of intimidation. Part of it is because their appeal is on the outside and what's on the inside may not match up.
I'll try to explain a little better. First, though, I don't think there's a correlation between attractiveness and self-esteem.
You can be an attractive guy/girl and have low or high self-esteem and the same goes for being unattractive.
What happens sometimes is that with attractive people, they're usually complimented on their looks, but not so much on what they say or think or how they act. This leads to the low self-esteem. It's all about how you view yourself and if you don't feel like your personality is as good as your appearance, you will have low-self esteem.
Some very good looking people act awkwardly only because they know how good looking they are and they have a feeling about how they are supposed to act because of it, BUT they cant pull off acting the way a "good looking" person should act. So they end up coming off as either awkward or get the label of being obnoxious when they arent at all. They just dont have the social skills that correspond with how attractive they are. More often then not these people are great "catches". Its kind of like "ugly duckling" syndrome. Their looks developed later on in life and they have a dissimilar personality to what their looks would suggest. I.e. very shy or even nice and approachable, even though their looks suggest otherwise.
Pretty girls rejected too?
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I agree that some attractive people have low self-esteem, but not because of intimidation. Part of it is because their appeal is on the outside and what's on the inside may not match up.
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What do you mean?
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I'll try to explain a little better. First, though, I don't think there's a correlation between attractiveness and self-esteem.
You can be an attractive guy/girl and have low or high self-esteem and the same goes for being unattractive.
What happens sometimes is that with attractive people, they're usually complimented on their looks, but not so much on what they say or think or how they act. This leads to the low self-esteem. It's all about how you view yourself and if you don't feel like your personality is as good as your appearance, you will have low-self esteem.
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I have to admit I don't think I've ever met someone who had a low self esteem because of what you've stated. However, that is interesting.
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Yeah, hopefully, that make sense. If not, I can explain more.
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I understand. It's like having a low self esteem because you feel that you don't deserve your good looks.
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Some very good looking people act awkwardly only because they know how good looking they are and they have a feeling about how they are supposed to act because of it, BUT they cant pull off acting the way a "good looking" person should act. So they end up coming off as either awkward or get the label of being obnoxious when they arent at all. They just dont have the social skills that correspond with how attractive they are. More often then not these people are great "catches". Its kind of like "ugly duckling" syndrome. Their looks developed later on in life and they have a dissimilar personality to what their looks would suggest. I.e. very shy or even nice and approachable, even though their looks suggest otherwise.