Famously Ugly People in History

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on August 14, 2008 at 1:58 pm


Ty.rannosaur.us blog has a pretty interesting post (see what I did there?) about 10 famously ugly people. This one to the left is Attila the Hun:

Practically unstoppable, Attila almost wiped out Western civilization until Pope Leo I talked him out of sacking Rome. According to Hollywood he looked like Gerard Butler, better known as Leonidas from 300, since Butler played him in the 2001 television series.

The reality is that he looked more like Shrek. Passages from history describe an extremely short man, built like an ogre, who so hideous that he was “human and yet not.” He is described with a bulbous head, flat nose, moist nostrils, beady eyes, and thin beard. None of this stopped him from marrying 12 beautiful women and dying while devirginizing his last one.

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12 comments to "Famously Ugly People in History"

  1. kuanes
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    i see what you did there!

  2. bean
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    I had no idea 'devirginizing' was a word.

  3. Sniperman
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    isn't it spelled Attila, with two Ts?

  4. Sniperman
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    oh and here is some more info from the death from wiki:

    Attila died in the early months of 453. The conventional account, from Priscus, says that at a feast celebrating his latest marriage to the beautiful and young Ildico (if uncorrupted, the name suggests a Gothic origin)[10] he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor. An alternative theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking or a condition called esophageal varices, where a hemorrhoid in the lower part of the esophagus ruptures leaving the person to choke on his/her own blood.

  5. dignam
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    They forgot about George Eliot. I'm disappointed.

  6. ted
    August 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    Deflower. If he died in the act of coitus, it doesn't mean he was ugly.

  7. Alex
    August 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks for catching that, Sniperman. :)

  8. Taylor
    August 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    When I was little, a saw a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt and it scared me. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I was just a little kid and hadn't caught on to that thinking!

  9. Justin
    August 14th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    I wouldn't be surprised if the ones doing the describing of Atilla were Roman citizens themselves. I would very much doubt they would give any "barbarian" a flattering description.

  10. RM
    August 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    "None of this stopped him from marrying 12 beautiful women and dying while devirginizing his last one."

    Pure myth.

  11. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 14th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Like the women had any choice.

  12. the prophet
    August 15th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Sounds pretty ugly!


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