If she walks like a duck.....(Warning: long, meandering post)

[KillarneyRose]

I started this thread because of two things I saw today: The first is an interview I just finished watching on television. For those of you familiar with the show "The Bachelor", the interview was with Trish. For those of you NOT familiar with her, Trish is a fairly decent-looking woman with an ego the size of Cowboys Stadium. Her favorite subject, judging from the interview, is herself. Namely, how beautiful, tall and shapely she is and how "intimidating" she is to other women.

The second thing is my 11th grade yearbook. I hadn't opened it since my senior year in HS and was astounded to see that (many of) the girls that were considered to be the class beauties really weren't all that outstanding in the looks department while I saw pictures of girls that pretty much kept to themselves who were, in fact, beautiful. My friend who was reading with me suggested it was all a matter of the girls who were considered beautiful believing so much in their looks that they kind of swept up everyone else in the delusion (think "Emperor's New Clothes")

Now, to get to my question (finally! lol).

If a person, particularly a woman, is average or only slightly above average in the looks department, but carries herself well, dresses well, shows a great deal of self-confidence and basically thinks she's hot stuff, do you tend to buy into that? Or do you pretty much think, "Why in the world is SHE so impressed with herself?"