“Too Tall, Too Leggy, Too Chinny”
After skipping college and saying sayonara to her daddy’s dreams, she hit NYC and aimed for Broadway. She had to stomach five years of rejection. “I was in the ‘Too’ category,” she later described. “Too tall, too leggy, too chinny.”
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The actress said she hated her wide jaw and learned over the years to tilt it when being photographed so it would look narrower. Her strong features made her look stubborn (in other words, she had a “resting b***h face”). And apparently, she was a bit difficult. She may have gotten it from her strait-laced father. Mr. Kelly was known to be cold.