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>Attractive women are 'hit' by this particularly hard - all those guys trying to get them to bed, get another score, the curve is exponential with beauty.

Bill Bradley's Life on the Run discusses this. Bradley was the

* #1 high school basketball player in the country

* #1 college basketball player in the country at Princeton

* Rhodes Scholar

* NBA player

* US Senator

* ran for President

From high school on, Bradley avoided the many, many women who wanted to date him just because he was a celebrity. In Life on the Run, written during his NBA career, he wrote about how such experiences gave him an understanding of what life is like for beautiful women: "the unnaturalness of being a sex object".


I once - by complete chance - sat next to Henry Cavill at a bar. He was trying to talk to a friend and then an attractive woman interrupted them almost right away to strike up conversation with him. Over the next hour I watched dozens of women come over, throwing themselves at him. It was eye-opening seeing the way he was treated, I actually felt kinda bad for the guy. He was trying to have a nice drink with a friend but was treated like some sort of show animal.
Fame is a 100x multiplier for these things. Harrison Ford talked about his sudden fame. "As a young actor, you spend your life observing people. Then, suddenly, everyone is staring at you."
Ford was 35 when Star Wars came out. Overnight he went from an actor who worked as a carpenter to pay his bills, to to one of the three leads on the biggest film franchise of the century. When he went to a record store to buy an album, fans ripped half his shirt off.

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