Sandra Bullock in ‘Miss Congeniality’ — Women Who Got ‘Ugly’ For a Movie

It’s a full-blown task to make Sandra Bullock look unattractive; maybe it worked in this context as the movie was about turning her hypothetical duck into a swan. The film presented Bullock’s FBI agent character, Gracie, as lacking any and all femininity and then placed her undercover as a contestant in the Miss U.S.A. pageant. While the beginning showed Bullock with bad hair, an absence of make-up and with the endearing quality of snorting while laughing – by the end of the movie she was safely back to ‘hot’ status.