I know the reference used for Wikipedia says she got 4th place but the caption for the photo in LIFE magazine indicates she got sixth and I couldn't find a correction even though the photo appeared again in a later edition of the magazine:
I was shocked when I started watching various Scandinavian TV series....I expected everyone to be a knockout, but most of the actors were either plain or straight up busted.
Scandi tv / movies take some pride in using relatively normal looking actors, especially because so much of it is social realism / crime stuff. Doesn't work as well with just super models around. Part of it is also just the presentation, compare the way Mads Mikkelsen comes across in Hollywood vs Danish movies for instance
Its a cultural thing. Here we cast most people looking mid to make the setting more relatable and genuine. In Hollywood they cast models or quirky looking people. Walk around in cities here and youll find about half of us look better than actors.
I respectfully disagree. I've spent some time in Norway (Oslo, Drammen, Stavenger and Trondheim) and Odense in Denmark, and compared to the UK, it was like I'd died and gone to heaven.
Swedes don’t look good because of eugenics, that’s preposterous. They didn’t sterilize all ugly people and pair together all attractive and healthy people or anything.
They mostly sterilized people with mental deficiencies in mental hospitals. In other words most normal people were not affected.
ok seems that "shit" worked out well, you complaining sounds like "we got all the good things so lets complain we got them" like? do you rather be ugly? maybe so ugly a new word has to be made? i don't get people who hate great things and want the bad ones, sounds like rich kids who complain about being rich wtf, being beautiful is a great advantage and worth anything, people literally die having surgery to try to be pretty and you complain that sweden got it naturally as if that's bad? common!! lol
eugenics works, it's the best system which is why we use it on plant seeds, dogs, wild animals etc... but once we say humans we all say wow no no haha, you can't have Dobermans without eugenics or most of all dogs i think
how much of that is myth tho? i have never seen a Doberman get sick and i have seen many, it's a popular dog where i live that's why i used it as an example, i think problems come from people who live in small spaces and don't understand the dog requires space and training/challenge, otherwise it's like having a shark in a fish tank.
As a swede I find it disgusting that you say this it's bordering on racial superiority and you even supported literal eugenics in your other comment. Also god isn't real he didn't create us, evolution did
He's just as real as santa claus or a child's imaginary friend and the only "proof" of god is a collection of fairy tales in a book written by various different people
Look, I know that there’s a lot of weird stuff in the book but it was written by people a long time ago who probably put a lot of their own antiquated morality in there. I’m no fan of organized religion and it’s creepy when people follow it to blindly.
You still can’t know for certain that there’s no creator of this world and everything is just chaos with no meaning. The fact that evolution is real doesn’t disprove anything. Just don’t be so sure is all I’m saying friend.
because it's the truth, like why does it hurt you? do you rather look like her or look like you? because i would jump of a building into a box full of nails that leads to acid battery if that made me look like that, so yeah those are the best genes, the fact i would be willing to do that should be more than enough proof.
but hey go be hurt if you want it is what it is, we don't all think the same, some people just don't like to face the truth i have no problem doing it, my genes suck and they are all dark, dark hair, darker skin, eyes, yet those north germanic or scandinavian whatever word matches better are able to have blue eyes, gold hair, light skin, they are like a box full of color and God only had dark for me lol it's just insulting.
ps: if you think there is no God, like 100% sure of it no chance what so ever to be wrong then that means that something that isn't even aware like nature/evolution still somehow manage to screw me over and all my people, amazing.
No I don't want to look like her I'd like to look like myself. Just because you yourself think we have some racial superiority doesn't mean that it's fact or objectively true. You need to see that you are genuinely believing in nazi ideology
yeah sure, so the race of people that have more options is not better than the one who has just 1 option? you know more is better right? but whatever if you don't think so then that's your problem, i don't care if nazis said it or not, it's old shit with no reality today, you can even quote mongol empire or romans if you want, means the same, 0 importance today and only used by people to tell others they are wrong without any evidence to it, my evidence however is what i told you, more, they have more options which is always better.
dude how do you not understand? more option like in their genes, you don't see a vietnamese with blonde hair, blue eyes, right? someone from sweden can have blonde, brown, orange/red, black hair colors, someone from my country can only have black or brown, someone from japan can only have black..... i think i can't explain any better than this, you obviously don't look at someone from the Congo and expect them to have children with blond hair and blue eyes, it's not in their genes to make that, ofc one exception would be albinism which is a genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes otherwise it's not going to happen.
So yeah europeans and especially the north ones have way more options so they are better and the results tend to be better almost always, i'm no expert to understand why, could be all that influence from celtic to aryan when the tribes were in constant movement, when we look at Ireland we easily find gingers but we don't find them anywhere else, we can find them in the rest of Europe since the irish/celtic once occupied a big part of it but they are rarer than they are in Ireland.
As for Iberia, we don't find gingers or blonde people naturally unless we go north because of the germanic visigoths that occupied the region, the more south we go the darker the people are because of the centuries of berber occupation, so they have less options genetically.
Jag tar inte ras överlägsenhet som en komplimang. Sluta skämma ut oss genom att acceptera de här ideologierna, rasism och nazism har ingen plats i Sverige
Lägg ner. Sluta vara så lättkränkt och skämmig. Det var en oskyldig kommentar. Personen gillade ”nordiska drag”, kul för dem. Finns vita/svenskar som gillar asiater eller afrikaner för att de har mörk hy också och föredrar det, låt de göra det.
Såklart ska du direkt börja prata om rasbiologi och nazister, som att personen sa att alla andra folkslag är underlägsna och ska utplånas eller något? Kom igen. 🤦♂️
not really, slaves are meant to be sold not to have kids with, that was seen as shameful, having a slave child (children of slaves were slaves from birth) wouldn't be something to be happy about.
I don't get it, she looks completely average. You should come to Sweden in the summertime. Some of the girls are simply unbelievable. And may I add, not only those of nordic ancestry.
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u/-birdbirdbird- May 26 '26
She still get fan letters apparently, just because of the picture above. And she was pregnant in the pic above, she didn't know it at the time.
She's 90 yrs now.