Quora精選：丑小鴨也能變成白天鵝

Q: What does it feel like to go from physically unattractive to physically attractive?

問：從丑小鴨變成白天鵝的感覺是怎么樣的？

We've all heard the story of the ugly duckling who turns into a swan but does this actually happen in real life? Has anyone gone from ugly to pretty or I'll even take average to beautiful? What kind of reactions did you get from strangers before and after? How did it change you? Do you now take advantage of your looks?

我們都聽過丑小鴨變成白天鵝的故事，但是現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中真得會(huì)發(fā)生這樣的事情嗎？有沒有人從不好看變得好看，或者就從長(zhǎng)相平平變得美麗動(dòng)人的？這些轉(zhuǎn)變前后，路人們對(duì)你的態(tài)度有什么不一樣么？這給你帶來了怎樣的改變？你會(huì)利用自己的相貌嗎？

Answered by Lyndsey Scott

I feel as if I'm a pretty extreme case.

Picture of me from middle school:

我覺得我似乎就是一個(gè)非常極端的例子。這是我中學(xué)時(shí)的照片：

Picture of me in a Victoria's Secret Show:

這是我參加維多利亞的秘密內(nèi)衣秀的照片：

And backstage:

這是我在后臺(tái)接受采訪的照片：

I didn't technically start being bullied until my super awkward high school years where I all of a sudden found myself at 5'9" and 89 pounds. I'm still scouring my things for photos from during that time, but they seem to have disappeared somehow. :P

上高中的時(shí)候，我突然發(fā)覺自己長(zhǎng)到了5英尺9英寸（約175厘米），體重89磅（約40公斤），在此之前，我并沒有真的因?yàn)橥饷捕艿狡圬?fù)。我現(xiàn)在還在找我那個(gè)時(shí)候的照片呢，但它們似乎都不翼而飛了。 :P

It's been strange having people regard me at such extremes throughout the course of 15 or so years ... I was a late bloomer. Didn't really start looking like a model until after college. So it's been a rather jarring experience having people see and treat me the way they suddenly do now.

在過去的這大約15年之中，大家對(duì)待我的態(tài)度從一個(gè)極端走向了另一個(gè)極端，這讓我感覺很不舒服……我只是所謂的“大器晚成”而已。直到大學(xué)畢業(yè)，我看起來還沒什么模特的樣子呢。所以人們對(duì)于我的態(tài)度的突變，讓我頗感不爽。

I was bullied and often friendless throughout puberty because people automatically judged me as being someone I was not. OK, sure ... I'll admit that I've always been a nerd, but I like to think I'm a pretty cool nerd. The difference between then and now though is that back then, they wouldn't give me the chance to show them that I was kinda cool, and now they readily give me a chance ... and are then often disappointed that I'm kind of a nerd. ;)

青春期那會(huì)兒我經(jīng)常被欺負(fù)，因?yàn)樗麄兛偸亲詣?dòng)把我劃分為另一種人。好吧，當(dāng)然，我承認(rèn)我那個(gè)時(shí)候總是一副呆呆的樣子，但是我覺得自己可是一個(gè)很酷的呆子。以前和現(xiàn)在的區(qū)別在于，那個(gè)時(shí)候，別人不會(huì)給我展示自己“瀟灑的一面”的機(jī)會(huì)，但是現(xiàn)在就不同了，他們總是很樂意欣賞我……然后常常會(huì)很失望的發(fā)現(xiàn)我有點(diǎn)呆。;)

Same is true now as it was then -- I (like everyone else I'm sure) am judged on sight. But it's nice to now have that perspective rare to the newly beautiful -- the world is a super shallow place, yes, but it's pointless to take their snap judgements too seriously because no one deserves to be treated differently based solely on their appearance.

唯一沒變的就是——人們總是以貌取人（我相信每個(gè)人都有與我類似的經(jīng)歷）。但對(duì)于現(xiàn)在這個(gè)好看的我來說，這種評(píng)判會(huì)好很多。是的，這個(gè)世界就是這么膚淺，但也不要太過在意這些倉(cāng)促論斷，因?yàn)闆]有一個(gè)人應(yīng)該因?yàn)橥饷捕艿讲顒e對(duì)待。

The perks of being good looking: People offer me a lot more freebies, I make money off of my looks through modeling, strangers talk to me more often, more people listen to me and laugh at my jokes, and I even have the occasional suitor ... all good things.

長(zhǎng)得好看的好處在于：人們會(huì)給我更多免費(fèi)贈(zèng)品，能夠通過做模特掙錢，時(shí)常被搭訕，更多的人愿意來做我的聽眾，并且我說笑話的時(shí)候還會(huì)很配合的大笑，我甚至偶爾還能被求求婚……總之就是好處多多。

On the other hand: Would-be catcallers will sometimes skip the compliments and just call me a bitch as I walk by, some women (although very few) are very catty to me from the get-go, and many people are shocked to find out that I'm anything other than an airhead ... that I was a comp. sci. major and that I program iOS apps, for example. Sometimes it all makes me very, very angry. Sometimes even a complimentary cat-call can make my blood boil. Sometimes I feel as if I have to prove myself now just as I felt I had to prove myself then. Can't catch a break, I guess. ;)

但也有些壞處：無論別人對(duì)我的評(píng)價(jià)如何，一些看不慣我的人只會(huì)在我路過時(shí)喊我“賤人”，有些女人（盡管很少），一開始就對(duì)我特別不友善。很多人在發(fā)現(xiàn)我并非一無是處的時(shí)候會(huì)很吃驚，比如，我主修計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)，開發(fā)過iOS平臺(tái)下的諸多應(yīng)用。有時(shí)候這一切都會(huì)讓我很抓狂。甚至一聲贊美的尖叫都會(huì)讓我熱血沸騰。我感到必須要去證明我自己，這種感覺無論是從前還是現(xiàn)在都很強(qiáng)烈。我想，生活似乎總是不會(huì)給我喘息的機(jī)會(huì)。

I clearly take advantage of my looks. I'm a model for pete's sake ... And in general, having beauty and intelligence is super useful during occasions that require me to assert a bit more authority. When I need to feel most powerful, I'll do my hair, throw on a nice outfit, put on a bit of makeup and it helps a disgusting amount. In general, I feel extremely lucky to have been granted this new super-power. But when I'm home and completely myself, when my hair is a mess, when I'm wearing my now broken glasses with the tape in the middle, and I'm up coding at 3 AM, I could give my middle-school self a major run for her money. I have to wonder, why didn't they like me then when I'm still the same person now? Why do they like me now? How do I know that they like me now? Does anyone actually really even like me now?

我當(dāng)然會(huì)利用自己的相貌，拜托，我可是個(gè)模特。通常來說，當(dāng)我想要維護(hù)自己的威信時(shí)，擁有美貌和智慧會(huì)很有用。而當(dāng)我想讓自己極具影響力時(shí)，我會(huì)做個(gè)不錯(cuò)的發(fā)型，穿上漂亮的套裝，化個(gè)淡妝，這些都大有裨益。總的來說，我很慶幸能被賦予這樣的“超能量”。但當(dāng)我在家，自由自在的時(shí)候，當(dāng)我蓬著頭發(fā)，戴著中間用膠布纏著的破眼鏡，寫代碼寫到凌晨三點(diǎn)時(shí)，我和中學(xué)時(shí)候的自己可以一爭(zhēng)高下。有時(shí)我不禁想，我仍舊是我，為什么以前大家不喜歡我，現(xiàn)在卻又喜歡？我怎樣才能知道他們是喜歡我的？現(xiàn)在真的有人喜歡我嗎？

Some things don't leave you.

有些東西始終都不會(huì)改變。