A discussion on the "White Lotus" subreddit draws attention to Charlotte Le Bon’s (Chloe’s) teeth, which are odd, but not as odd Aimee Lou Wood’s (Chelsea’s) teeth, which are very conspicuously odd and are the "White Lotus" teeth that get the most attention.
The photo at the link is of Le Bon, so if you don't know what I'm talking about and you need to see Aimee Lou Wood, here's a clip:
Lots of people are enjoying the off-the-norm teeth, and I hope this is part of a trend toward seeing beauty in what is natural and not trying to "fix" everything.
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I think her smile is more odd than the teeth.
I don't like the use of the word "smile" to mean "teeth." I see it in orthodontia ads, and here's TV show using the term. The look of your teeth, if it matters to you, matters whether you're smiling or not. I do get that some people avoid exposing their teeth and that might inhibit their smiling, but the inaccuracy is annoying.
Stop bleaching your hair and let it go natural?
She's no Lauren Hutton
I freely admit I have a compulsion about teeth. I prefer them straight.
However, the deal breaker is your gums. You'd better floss. I can't tell if the buck-toothed young lady is sporting pink or red.
Genghis Khan said wives should be chosen based on the quality of their teeth and the strength of their legs...just like horses. Anybody get a gander at Charlotte's gams by chance?
"beauty in what is natural and not trying to "fix" everything. "
Fixing defects seems like proper upkeep and maintenance. Trying to "fix" something that is not defective, may be too much.
Unnaturally white teeth is vanity. Getting dental work to address a snaggle tooth, overbite or gap, is attention to detail.
There's something sexy about being comfortable in one's own skin -- or teeth.
This presents an interesting business opportunity for those women who are forever searching for that new look that gives them an edge in the mating game: "MS-align". Adjustable braces that give her that sexay middle gap or feral crooked smile. Gotta have it, girls.
One of the world's most beautiful women was the actress Jennifer Grey, star of Dirty Dancing and Red Dawn. Those were her "big break" movies, enough for her to earn some real money.
First thing she did was end her career by getting a nose job. She went from undeniably uniquely beautiful to "normal." To such a degree that she was lost in a sea of women who all look "normal." They all look the same: boring.
In Les Miserables, Fantine's descent into crushing poverty and eventual death was marked by her selling two of her beautiful teeth to a street dentist.
So my teeth are cool now? Somehow I doubt it...
Young girl.
Has she been invited to art club?, (really a secret gender confusion club - no parents allowed) Or read the ACLU approved and forced book that currently sits on a school shelf in Elizabeth Colorado about a father forcing her very young daughter to perform fellatio. (yuck - that was the paragraph I heard read aloud.)
because the leftwing rot and cancer spreads - while we talk teeth.
In the novel The Dream Of The Red Chamber by Cao XueQin, the main protagonist's - Jia BaoYu - primary love interest is Lin DaiYu. Throughout the novel he repeatedly describes her as having several small "deformities" (畸形) which for reasons he elaborates at length makes him extremely attracted to her. One of her deformities is she has a pronounced overbite, which causes her to smile and laugh seldomly. But when she does smile or laugh, she places the sleeve of her large-sleeved gown (大袖衫) over her mouth to hide her teeth (something many Japanese and Chinese women still do), leaving only her eyes to gleam with pleasure which makes her irresistible to him.
She seems confident and comfortable, which is attractive in and of itself (if that's the correct use of the idiom).
"There's something sexy about being comfortable in one's own skin..."
This is true, and quirky and offbeat is kind of nice, as long as the teeth work. But I like being able to eat an apple without cutting it up first, and to eat corn on the cob without first using a steak knife to cut the kernels onto my plate, although, to be honest, I still kind of like it that way, with the corn kernels in little rafts, and then put butter and salt on them and eat them with a fork, but it should be a choice, dammit!
She's no Juno Temple.
I used to hate my yearbook picture in high school because the photographer got me to smile in it, not only did I have crooked teeth, but they front ones were broken when I got hit by a car, and my parents couldn't afford to have them fixed cosmetically, but then about a decade ago, I found the picture, and dreaded to look at it, but I did, and it was like "What the F* did I not like about that picture?!? Please use it with my obit!" But I am still happy I got them fixed.
Her teeth are perfectly aligned. I want to see someone say that with teeth that weren't obviously corrected.
And getting women to smile like that is just getting them to bite there lip. Women biting their lip when talking to a man is a signal to both sides.
She is quite pretty and I like her attitude as well.
We should take a moment to recognize the pathbreaking work of one Hollywood star: Chumley, of Tennessee Tuxedo fame, starring in...
Brushing Off a Toothache
The series centered on Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin, and his dimwitted friend Chumley, a walrus.
This may not be new, but I've recently noticed that each high school in my area has a handful of orthodontist's offices within a short walking distance. They almost appear to be chains/ franchises.
I guess we should anticipate cosmetic surgery and "gender affirming" practices in the same strip malls.
There is nothing wrong with getting your teeth straightened when the alternative are teeth that are badly misaligned and non-functional. However..... The Hollywood perfect teeth in a period movie are startling and this breaks the suspension of disbelief when watching the movie. Immersion.
Cowboys in the Wild West of the 1850's...flash the perfect ultra white Hollywood smile....My husband always remarks "They sure had a great dental plan back then". Or "His teeth are sucking the light out of the room" Then there are the women on the wagon trains that have unwrinkled spotless clothes, beautiful make-up and hairdos that are not mussed up at all.... ....as if!
There is something charming about some imperfection. I'm glad that society is finally accepting that.
When you meet someone for the first time and they greet you by saying “I love your teeth”, it’s a way of establishing dominance with a subtle put down. I would respond that “I love your back hump”
I cannot believe how fucking fragile women are. Some idiotic tv show makes you feel better about yourself? I notice no men were mentioned in that Inside Edition segment.
O yeah. Except for the male dentist who fixes women’s problems. You’ve come a long way baby.
Eva Marie said, "I cannot believe how fucking fragile women are."
Did you just call women pussies?
Simon LeBon could afford better orthodontia for his kid ...
"And getting women to smile like that is just getting them to bite there lip."
I can see how you might imagine that from looking at the freeze frame. Watch the clip and you won't.
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”—Francis Bacon
That said, I don’t see anything strange about Le Bon’s teeth myself, and she looks excellent to me.
Yaeba (八重歯), a slightly snaggle-toothed appearance of the dentition, is considered a marker of youth and natural beauty for women in Japan. Perfect teeth are considered boring, and probably bought and paid for.
I'm reminded of a quote from The Lion in Winter: "That's a rare fair feature, even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction."
I was going to mention Lauren Hutton, but Howard beat me to it.
I like that the video’s headline is “More people are embracing their natural smile.” I embraced my natural smile when I was about 40. The headline writer had some fun.
Yikes. She's no Gene Tierney.
"Lots of people are enjoying the off-the-norm teeth, and I hope this is part of a trend toward seeing beauty in what is natural and not trying to "fix" everything. "
The trend in our society to fix everything keeps getting bigger and bigger each year and I suspect that it will keep on going.
If crooked teeth suddenly become popular, we're going to start seeing people going to the orthodontist to have them make their teeth more crooked. (I had my lower teeth straigntened a couple of years ago, but it was not for vanity. My dentist said that they were destroying my upper front teeth and I promised me multiple root canals if I didn't get the problem corrected. In hindsight, getting the braces removed was substantially more painful than any root canal I ever had.)
I’ve decided this is fake news - very clever publicity for White Lotus. (Posey Parker is my favorite.) I suppose it’s always been this way and now we’re just more aware of it. Anyway A+ to the publicist.
I guess Jason Isaacs wasn't happy with the natural charms that God graced him with.
https://pagesix.com/2025/03/13/entertainment/did-jason-isaacs-wear-a-prosthetic-in-white-lotus-full-frontal-scene/
Honestly, if there weren't a voiceover, I wouldn't have noticed she had a prominent overbite -- I'd just have thought she has a kind of rabbit-y look to her. I don't usually notice unless it's something like the yaeba Hassayamper explains above. Like Hirosue Ryoko's teeth.
I can stand a little overbite, but the supposed sexiness of the gap-toothed smile is lost on me.
Beautiful molars, lovely bicuspids . . .
Somebody tell the Trivago guy Jürgen Klopp he's already out of style.
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