Quora精选：丑小鸭也能变成白天鹅

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

问：从丑小鸭变成白天鹅的感觉是怎么样的？

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?

我们都听过丑小鸭变成白天鹅的故事，但是现实生活中真得会发生这样的事情吗？有没有人从不好看变得好看，或者就从长相平平变得美丽动人的？这些转变前后，路人们对你的态度有什么不一样么？这给你带来了怎样的改变？你会利用自己的相貌吗？

Answered by Lyndsey Scott

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

Picture of me from middle school:

我觉得我似乎就是一个非常极端的例子。这是我中学时的照片：

Picture of me in a Victoria's Secret Show:

这是我参加维多利亚的秘密内衣秀的照片：

And backstage:

这是我在后台接受采访的照片：

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

上高中的时候，我突然发觉自己长到了5英尺9英寸（约175厘米），体重89磅（约40公斤），在此之前，我并没有真的因为外貌而受到欺负。我现在还在找我那个时候的照片呢，但它们似乎都不翼而飞了。 :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.

在过去的这大约15年之中，大家对待我的态度从一个极端走向了另一个极端，这让我感觉很不舒服……我只是所谓的“大器晚成”而已。直到大学毕业，我看起来还没什么模特的样子呢。所以人们对于我的态度的突变，让我颇感不爽。

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. ;)

青春期那会儿我经常被欺负，因为他们总是自动把我划分为另一种人。好吧，当然，我承认我那个时候总是一副呆呆的样子，但是我觉得自己可是一个很酷的呆子。以前和现在的区别在于，那个时候，别人不会给我展示自己“潇洒的一面”的机会，但是现在就不同了，他们总是很乐意欣赏我……然后常常会很失望的发现我有点呆。;)

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.

唯一没变的就是——人们总是以貌取人（我相信每个人都有与我类似的经历）。但对于现在这个好看的我来说，这种评判会好很多。是的，这个世界就是这么肤浅，但也不要太过在意这些仓促论断，因为没有一个人应该因为外貌而受到差别对待。

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.

长得好看的好处在于：人们会给我更多免费赠品，能够通过做模特挣钱，时常被搭讪，更多的人愿意来做我的听众，并且我说笑话的时候还会很配合的大笑，我甚至偶尔还能被求求婚……总之就是好处多多。

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. ;)

但也有些坏处：无论别人对我的评价如何，一些看不惯我的人只会在我路过时喊我“贱人”，有些女人（尽管很少），一开始就对我特别不友善。很多人在发现我并非一无是处的时候会很吃惊，比如，我主修计算机科学，开发过iOS平台下的诸多应用。有时候这一切都会让我很抓狂。甚至一声赞美的尖叫都会让我热血沸腾。我感到必须要去证明我自己，这种感觉无论是从前还是现在都很强烈。我想，生活似乎总是不会给我喘息的机会。

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?

我当然会利用自己的相貌，拜托，我可是个模特。通常来说，当我想要维护自己的威信时，拥有美貌和智慧会很有用。而当我想让自己极具影响力时，我会做个不错的发型，穿上漂亮的套装，化个淡妆，这些都大有裨益。总的来说，我很庆幸能被赋予这样的“超能量”。但当我在家，自由自在的时候，当我蓬着头发，戴着中间用胶布缠着的破眼镜，写代码写到凌晨三点时，我和中学时候的自己可以一争高下。有时我不禁想，我仍旧是我，为什么以前大家不喜欢我，现在却又喜欢？我怎样才能知道他们是喜欢我的？现在真的有人喜欢我吗？

Some things don't leave you.

有些东西始终都不会改变。