It happens at the end of every rom-com: the good-looking guy gets the good-looking girl and they live happily ever after. Or do they?
A recent study suggests that in reality attractive people are more likely to have shorter relationships and experience divorce.
Christine Ma-Kellams, a social psychologist, led a team of Harvard researchers to investigate the impact of looks on relationship stability and to see if beautiful people had beautiful relationships. They did not.
She found that while, for instance, Brad Pitt may regularly top the polls as the world’s most desirable man, women should be careful what they wish for. As both Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie have found out, he is not the finest marriage material. Neither, though, is Scarlett Johansson, who