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Lea Michele won audience's hearts while starring in the series "Glee" due to her unique voice. As big-nosed "Rachel Berry", she encouraged young girls to pursue their dreams and to not give up at any cost. This was something Lea had to learn early on. At just 15, she was told that she would only make it in Hollywood if she had a nose job. A statement that she has proven to be downright wrong.
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"Carrie Bradshaw" is well-known as a fashionable and stylish writer. Sarah Jessica Parker embodies these qualities as well and every woman would love to have her looks and innate sense of style. It is truly unbelievable that she was told she was too ugly for Hollywood. In 2008 the magazine Maxim callously awarded her the title of the most unsexy woman of all time. We cannot understand why!
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No other actress has been nominated as often for an Oscar as Meryl Streep, which makes it even more unbelievable that she was told in 1976 that she would never find Hollywood fame. Whoever told her that must be frantically eating their words now...
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Winona Ryder's Hollywood career did not take off easily. Winona revealed to Interview Magazine that when auditioning for a role at the beginning of her career one director told her that she should not try to be an actress as she was not beautiful enough.
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Chrissy Teigen is a successful model and was on the cover of the word-famous Sports Illustrated magazine in 2000. The fashion brand Forever 21 cancelled their contract with her for one of their campaigns stating that she was too fat. The brand must be pretty annoyed that they missed out on having such a popular model in one of their campaigns.
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Mindy Kaling has her very own successful comedy series The Mindy Project. The show not only highlights her acting skills, she also wrote and produced it. One TV network thought she was a great comedian and broadcast one of her other sitcoms, but did not let her play the leading role. They wanted to have someone that they believed to be prettier.
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One might think that in Hollywood people do anything to be successful. But not Minka Kelly. When she was just 19, a playmate offered to help her make it as an actress, but under the condition that Minka would have several cosmetic surgery procedures done. Minka, an ex-girlfriend of an American baseball player, refused to go under the knife. And it's lucky she didn't, as the brunette beauty found fame without having to resort to surgery.
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Resse Witherspoon is an Oscar winner and successful producer by now. But it wasn't that easy when she first arrived in Hollywood. "When I first came here (to L.A.), all I heard was, 'No, not right – not tall enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough'. But I didn’t really care about their opinions. I’m stubborn."
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Jessica Chastain has talked about her experiences when she started out as an actress in an interview with The Telegraph: "Trust me, it’s only been in the past five years that people have been telling me I’m attractive. Before then, I wasn’t getting parts because people kept telling me I wasn’t pretty enough."
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Kate Winslet spoke honestly about her past castings when she accepted a BAFTA. "When I was younger, when I was 14, I was told by a drama teacher that I might do okay if I was happy to settle for the fat girl parts," the star said. "So what I always feel in these moments is that any young woman who has ever been put down by a teacher, by a friend, by even a parent, just don’t listen to any of it, because that’s what I did – I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities."
Who would have thought! At the beginning of their career, celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and Meryl Streep were told that they are too ugly for Hollywood.
However, they proved them wrong and quickly rose to fame. Now, these stars are glamorous and looked up to in Tinsel Town!
Some of these stars may surprise you... find out more in our gallery! Enjoy!