When I was much younger, I was told by three different people, on separate occasions, that I looked like Natalie Portman in Star Wars. Not like her in general, but only in Star Wars. It boggles me till this day.
“You look like you’d be a military women” by some random Irish teen who was working concessions 💀 or “you have really flexible shoulders” – I didn’t even know shoulders could be flexible.
My straight friend told me the reason she disappeared from our conversation after reading a chapter of my gay romance book was because she had to go jump her husband. Literally.
When I was working as a bank teller, an older gentleman told me that my eyes are piercing. First and only time anyone has ever commented on my eyes but I will never forget it and that was 20+ years ago. 😂
“I hate talking to you! I think I have something figured out, and then I talk about it with you and you look at it from a completely different direction and it makes me feel stupid for not being able to see things the way you do.”
my ex thought he was complimenting me when he told me I have the biggest nipples he’s ever seen . . . he quickly realized I was not at all flattered by that
Some guys said I must do steroids because I was hard as a rock at the time. Instead of being offended like he thought I would I smiled because I was in such great shape people began to assume I used anabolic to get there
Maybe not super strange, but I have been told several times through my life (especially when I was younger) that I looked “exotic”. I am Caucasian (from western Europe, but grew up in Canada). I really didn’t take it as a compliment, despite it being touted as such. It always just seemed like a way to say that I was strange-looking. For example, when I was in my late teens/early twenties, a friend was describing the looks of the girls in our friend group (why? I don’t know), and while others were described as pretty or beautiful, I was described as exotic. I always found that to be a weird way to “compliment” someone and it did affect my self-esteem.
That I had the legs of a figure skater. I have very muscular thighs and calves. I was very flattered, especially since my mom always criticized my legs.
I was working retail in my youth when an elderly lady came through my line. She told me (a redhead) that I looked just like Madonna. It was…weird, but I thanked her, and moved on with my life. 20+ years later, I still think about it, and I still don’t see what she was talking about lol.
Funny thing was it was my old friends mother admiring me thinking she was being nice. Her daughter was grinning satisfied.
Yeah i should have clued on then that she wasn’t a good friend.
Wasn’t the only time either, a mother of a friend of my older brother once emailed me with weight loss tips telling me the same, I’d be very pretty if i wasn’t overweight.
I was checking out my items at Victoria’s Secret, and the girl looked at me and was like, “What are you?” I said pardon me? She said, “I mean what’s your ethnicity, you are really beautiful!” ☺️
A man once wrote me an entire poem about my nose. (I have a pretty distinctively big nose.) It began with the lines: “Your nostrils/ They look like they belong to a goddess.”
My gynecologist had a student watching her do an exam on my nether region and she said “oh yes feel right here. Her ovaries are perfect!” Like okay thanks 😭😭
The compliment wasn’t the strangest but the experience was out of left field.
I was standing in line to get a coffee before work and this lady popped out of nowhere and stopped to say that I have amazing energy and she can just tell I’m a good person and that she felt compelled to stop and tell me. Was a high compliment to receive but it was like 7am and my brain was functioning on half capacity. I hope I never forget that though.
“You’re too pretty to be smoking!” I was not. At all. I was like 14 years old and just standing outside a store waiting for my friend.
“You look like a Veronica.” Someone who had gotten my name wrong. It is absolutely positively in no way similar to Veronica, but Veronica does sound like a hot name to me, so I took it as a compliment.
Super old guy asked 19 year old me where I got my pretty red hair from. Strange because he was trying to hit on me. But thankfully, my truthful answer “a box” deterred him from ever speaking to me again. (We worked at the same place.)
Just this morning a guy I just met at a coffee shop said that I “remind him of a spoon. Not like one of those weird heavy spoons that are really hard to eat with. A good spoon”.
A male friend when I told him that for a convention I‘ll be dressing as Aphrodite (from Hades II) but with clothes obviously:
„It’s illegal to walk around naked in most countries actually. Even if you are very pretty. – it would be illegal.“
That was very weird but I know how he just drops things like that without thinking. I know he meant it in a sweet way but yeah, must’ve been the weirdest one.
I have a scar on my face from a surgery that needed stitches I had when I was baby.
I was walking with my boss’ 4 year old doing something and she asked me what’s that thing on your face. So I told her, and she immediately grins and goes “I think its beautiful, it looks like a piece of WHEAT!!!!!!!!”
OVERWHELMED. SO CUTE. SO SWEET. AND SHE IS COMPLETELY RIGHT. IT DOES.
Actually a compliment given to me by two different people, but we all worked together so maybe they were talking about that with each other once? Idk but I have a very high forehead and it’s actually a bit of a insecurity of mine so it was quite nice…
I had a job where I had to tell people no a lot. It was emotionally draining but I also LOVED telling people no and continuing to tell people no, no matter how much of a tantrum they threw.
One day I had a coworker come to me and asked me to speak with a customer and she said “you’re meaner than I am” lmao
She meant it as a compliment because I wouldn’t let people’s shitty attitudes change my answer but still laugh every time I think about it
You’ve got pretty big feet.
I’m still not sure if there were commas in there or how exactly that was supposed to be taken bc .. I do in fact have large feet ..
I was undergoing an IVF embryo transfer and the RN was gushing over how robust my endometrial lining was, so much the doctor had to
shut her down. Still makes me lol to this day when I think about it.
I saw a pickup compliment in here. If its too weird you are missing the point. It is just making up a reason to talk to you before you dissapear forever 😂
When my mother and I both worked at the same place, a coworker in my mother’s department used to tell her I had great childbearing hips, and he kept telling her he wanted to marry me. This went on for a few years and was very strange, especially since I didn’t work in his department and we barely ever saw or spoke to each other. He also already had a wife and 5 kids.
It wasn’t meant as a compliment, more as an observation of my style but still. My friend said my style is GORP-core and I’ll never forget it.
In case anyone doesn’t know, GORP stands for “good old raisins and peanuts” aka trail mix. He meant I look like the type of person you’d meet on a hike, and that is absolutely accurate and it makes me happy that I give off those vibes even when I’m no where near a trail 😂.
I got off a flight and stopped at Starbucks for a coffee. The cashier told me I was a “pretty girl in disguise” which I guess means she thought I was pretty but disheveled lol
Also my gyno told me I have a cite little uterus. No idea why she felt the need to tell me that
this little old lady at the post office ringing me up asked if i played sports. “no, why…?” she motioned towards my shoulders and said i had the shoulder frame of a football player. having wide shoulders is always something i hated but i left smiling after talking to her.
«I thought you’d be a bitch – but you’re so kind!»
Random person I met for a work related collaboration. I’m not the one using gendered slurs about other women, but ok and thx I guess
I work in a library and a patron once told me that I “look like [I] have family in the Berkshire Mountains.” Still trying to puzzle that one out. He also told me that I have nice teeth. 🤷♀️
In a public restroom I was told I was really good at washing my hands. For some reason I just assume this woman was a teacher who spent her days telling kids to wash up
I’ve been told I have cute accent in my life by different people. Some even said it was European in a way….
I always said thanks or that’s cool, but I’m American -born and raised. I’ve never even been to Europe 🤦♀️🤷♀️. I have hearing problems in both my ears. (Both of my ear drums ruptured during a severe double ear infection as a child causing scar tissue and ultimately affecting my speech). It made my confidence plummet for sure.
Hubby’s classmate/friend said to me ‘I never imagined my kids will call you auntie’, in a way that wow I never thought we’ll become friends as adult and be in each other’s lives.
My bf sometimes gives me weirdly specific compliments. But it’s great but I have very specific insecurities. Things like “your fingers are looking really slender” or “your jaw looks more defined”. I can definitely see it being off-putting from an outside perspective, but I love it haha. Hea also often referred to my “big, juicy brain”.
I frequently get comments on my voice and I’ve been told from an ex coworker that he wished my voice was his inner monologue for everything. I chose to take it as a big compliment rather than it being a little “too forward” coming from an acquaintance lol
The exes have the best ones. “You are both the smartest and the most stupid person I ever knew”. From another one: “You have to be really crazy becase you are so sane.”
Not to forget this one mental health doctor (psychotherapist, though not psychiatrist): “You are unique”. Like no, dude. He was trying to assign my very much physical illness to some weird psychological theory.
I get told every time I get bloodwork or an IV that I have the juiciest vein in my right inner elbow lmao. I mean they look at it lustfully. It’s hilarious.
2nd one is I got asked if I took a class in ahem…. oral delights lol (I’m F, he M) 😂😂 (I had not, I am self taught. Lol)
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my entire childhood I heard “you have lovely piano player fingers” from family members who never did anything to get me near a piano.
An old lady told me I was built like a brick house. I’m pretty petite and skinny.
From some British guys I worked with at a summer camp, “You’re the least American American we’ve ever met.”
A coworker once told me I “have very trustworthy elbows.” I didn’t ask questions. Just said thank you and carried that confidence with me all day
That is seem like i am chaotic neutral and know too much
Someone told me that my nail beds look nice.
When I was much younger, I was told by three different people, on separate occasions, that I looked like Natalie Portman in Star Wars. Not like her in general, but only in Star Wars. It boggles me till this day.
You’re a better at being my mother than my mother (my ex just before we broke up) Talk about Oedipal!
I’m told that I’m the swollen bark of genus pinus. I took it as a compliment.
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i suppose i should share my own, i was told i had nicely shaped finger nails once.
growing up people would tell me “people would pay to shave your head” like huh? so many better ways to say “nice hair” lool
“You have such a cute voice!”
Thanks. I’m deaf. I still think it was off putting.
“You look like you’d be a military women” by some random Irish teen who was working concessions 💀 or “you have really flexible shoulders” – I didn’t even know shoulders could be flexible.
“You’re very pretty for a white person. You do not look North American white.”
Me: excuse me, wat
My straight friend told me the reason she disappeared from our conversation after reading a chapter of my gay romance book was because she had to go jump her husband. Literally.
We were dancing at a rave where it was dark and he told me I looked smoking hot in the dark
I was talking to a customer on the phone and he said “if I was going to jump off a bridge I’d want you to talk me off.”
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My audiologist told me that I have “very pretty eardrums.”
It’s not the sort of thing I can show off, but it was nice of her to say.
The guy at the end of my road told me “your legs sure look skinny, keep it up!” Mind you he’s like a 85 year old man, obese and on a scooter
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When I was working as a bank teller, an older gentleman told me that my eyes are piercing. First and only time anyone has ever commented on my eyes but I will never forget it and that was 20+ years ago. 😂
“I hate talking to you! I think I have something figured out, and then I talk about it with you and you look at it from a completely different direction and it makes me feel stupid for not being able to see things the way you do.”
He was a great kisser, too. LOL
my ex thought he was complimenting me when he told me I have the biggest nipples he’s ever seen . . . he quickly realized I was not at all flattered by that
that I have voice made for telling bed-time stories. I’m still not sure if she meant I was boring or soothing.
You’re like a perfect mix of Terri Gross (NPR) and Dita von Teese.
“Your eyes are so weird! cool too but also weird”
They are green with a clear brown ring round the pupil, nothing noteworthy! To be fair the man who said it was rather drunk haha
Creepy fucking co-worker told me “You have a nose I would love to lick” And he’d make these weird licking sounds.
Some guys said I must do steroids because I was hard as a rock at the time. Instead of being offended like he thought I would I smiled because I was in such great shape people began to assume I used anabolic to get there
Maybe not super strange, but I have been told several times through my life (especially when I was younger) that I looked “exotic”. I am Caucasian (from western Europe, but grew up in Canada). I really didn’t take it as a compliment, despite it being touted as such. It always just seemed like a way to say that I was strange-looking. For example, when I was in my late teens/early twenties, a friend was describing the looks of the girls in our friend group (why? I don’t know), and while others were described as pretty or beautiful, I was described as exotic. I always found that to be a weird way to “compliment” someone and it did affect my self-esteem.
“You’ve got a nice forehead. Are you from Germany?”
That I had the legs of a figure skater. I have very muscular thighs and calves. I was very flattered, especially since my mom always criticized my legs.
Once a guy Whispered in my ear and said ” damn bitch”
I was like ” wtf ” and then he said ” i said that because you are so beautiful”
Hands down one of the shittiest compliment i have ever received
“You have the shoulders of a model” – was by an oldish male customer when I was volunteering at a charity shop
I was working retail in my youth when an elderly lady came through my line. She told me (a redhead) that I looked just like Madonna. It was…weird, but I thanked her, and moved on with my life. 20+ years later, I still think about it, and I still don’t see what she was talking about lol.
I look like someone who’d own a possum. (Like a Virginia Opossum) 😅😂 I was very okay with it.
I’d be very pretty if i wasn’t fat 🙄
Funny thing was it was my old friends mother admiring me thinking she was being nice. Her daughter was grinning satisfied.
Yeah i should have clued on then that she wasn’t a good friend.
Wasn’t the only time either, a mother of a friend of my older brother once emailed me with weight loss tips telling me the same, I’d be very pretty if i wasn’t overweight.
That I have the best legs they’ve seen since Tina Turner oddly specific and super flattering I thought
“Your eyes are like Harry Potter’s.”
At least I think it was meant as a compliment? Must have meant the movie Harry Potter because my eyes are blue not green.
You have such dainty fingers
I was checking out my items at Victoria’s Secret, and the girl looked at me and was like, “What are you?” I said pardon me? She said, “I mean what’s your ethnicity, you are really beautiful!” ☺️
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Well, I do believe this was genuinely intended as a compliment…
“You’re too pretty to be reading big thick books like that!”
Thanks, random drunk guy in the park.
A man once wrote me an entire poem about my nose. (I have a pretty distinctively big nose.) It began with the lines: “Your nostrils/ They look like they belong to a goddess.”
My gyno once told me my uterus could be moved around nicely…thanks, I guess?
Some guy told me “you’re so pretty. Like a beautiful cat”
Ummmmm thanks bro
My gynecologist had a student watching her do an exam on my nether region and she said “oh yes feel right here. Her ovaries are perfect!” Like okay thanks 😭😭
The compliment wasn’t the strangest but the experience was out of left field.
I was standing in line to get a coffee before work and this lady popped out of nowhere and stopped to say that I have amazing energy and she can just tell I’m a good person and that she felt compelled to stop and tell me. Was a high compliment to receive but it was like 7am and my brain was functioning on half capacity. I hope I never forget that though.
Super old guy asked 19 year old me where I got my pretty red hair from. Strange because he was trying to hit on me. But thankfully, my truthful answer “a box” deterred him from ever speaking to me again. (We worked at the same place.)
“You have an approachable face”
Just this morning a guy I just met at a coffee shop said that I “remind him of a spoon. Not like one of those weird heavy spoons that are really hard to eat with. A good spoon”.
“you dance like a man”
A male friend when I told him that for a convention I‘ll be dressing as Aphrodite (from Hades II) but with clothes obviously:
„It’s illegal to walk around naked in most countries actually. Even if you are very pretty. – it would be illegal.“
That was very weird but I know how he just drops things like that without thinking. I know he meant it in a sweet way but yeah, must’ve been the weirdest one.
Someone once told me my eyebrows are a good distance from my eyes. Idk. I feel like they’re average distance.
I have a scar on my face from a surgery that needed stitches I had when I was baby.
I was walking with my boss’ 4 year old doing something and she asked me what’s that thing on your face. So I told her, and she immediately grins and goes “I think its beautiful, it looks like a piece of WHEAT!!!!!!!!”
OVERWHELMED. SO CUTE. SO SWEET. AND SHE IS COMPLETELY RIGHT. IT DOES.
When I first got glasses, somebody said I looked good in them, my face was always missing something.
An older man once told me he liked my skin and it would make nice lamps (I have tattoos)
“You’re weird but in a good way”
Still don’t know what that means.
That I looked single. I’m not. Was it a compliment? I don’t know. Felt like he was trying to say I look attractive OR I look like i’m trying to hit.
I love the way you talk with me too bad you’re not a man.
The white of my eyes are very white
Your ears have never looked better. I think it was backhanded. Confused me. Weird
Whenever I have to get blood drawn the phlebotomist compliments my veins
“You have disproportionately long legs in relation to your torso.”
I was like, wah?
But yeah, be said twas a compliment
Dunno how tho
That I “look like a Ted Bundy victim”
“damn girl, you’re thick like a bowl of oatmeal” Context: I live in the South.
“if you were a man, i’d turn gay for you”, said by a heterosexual man to me, a woman 🙂
“you have a nice smile for a nurse”
It will always be “your skin feels like what I imagine porcelain would feel like if it were skin” or something like that.
But really I get the weirdest shit said to me daily.
“You have a very nice forehead”
Actually a compliment given to me by two different people, but we all worked together so maybe they were talking about that with each other once? Idk but I have a very high forehead and it’s actually a bit of a insecurity of mine so it was quite nice…
I was sitting at a bar waiting for a friend to show up.
Some person taps me on the shoulder and says “You are just so ethereal!” and then proceeded to leave the building.
Was a gay bar and mildly dark inside, no idea their gender, orientation, and no idea what they meant by it at all. Still no idea.
Seemed like a nice theydy though.
I was told by a guy I met at a party that he loves the way my hips swing. I didn’t know what to say, so just said oh hmm okay thanks I guess?
I had a job where I had to tell people no a lot. It was emotionally draining but I also LOVED telling people no and continuing to tell people no, no matter how much of a tantrum they threw.
One day I had a coworker come to me and asked me to speak with a customer and she said “you’re meaner than I am” lmao
She meant it as a compliment because I wouldn’t let people’s shitty attitudes change my answer but still laugh every time I think about it
“You have a very supportive vagina. You won’t have anything to worry about later in life or after kids.” -an obgyn doing a colposcopy
“You have a phone sex operator voice” Whatever the heck that means.
I was 16 years old.
You’ve got pretty big feet.
I’m still not sure if there were commas in there or how exactly that was supposed to be taken bc .. I do in fact have large feet ..
I was undergoing an IVF embryo transfer and the RN was gushing over how robust my endometrial lining was, so much the doctor had to
shut her down. Still makes me lol to this day when I think about it.
I saw a pickup compliment in here. If its too weird you are missing the point. It is just making up a reason to talk to you before you dissapear forever 😂
When my mother and I both worked at the same place, a coworker in my mother’s department used to tell her I had great childbearing hips, and he kept telling her he wanted to marry me. This went on for a few years and was very strange, especially since I didn’t work in his department and we barely ever saw or spoke to each other. He also already had a wife and 5 kids.
Dentist: you have textbook teeth 😍. Me: 😁
I like your skin….
That I had a beautiful skeleton and I should think my parents for making the perfect specimen 😂💀
My female barber keeps telling me I got a nice head
“Wow you’re so good at drawing! I should just give up…”
Don’t make it my fault that you’re a quitter
That my hips and legs were perfect for childbirth.
“You’re to pretty to only be black. You have to be mixed”. I’m mixed, but what an awful thing to say to anyone
It wasn’t meant as a compliment, more as an observation of my style but still. My friend said my style is GORP-core and I’ll never forget it.
In case anyone doesn’t know, GORP stands for “good old raisins and peanuts” aka trail mix. He meant I look like the type of person you’d meet on a hike, and that is absolutely accurate and it makes me happy that I give off those vibes even when I’m no where near a trail 😂.
Edit: oh yeah, and that I have “cute burps”
two particularly notable compliments from straight men: ‘you have the body of a greek goddess’ and ‘you have the body of a pornstar’ … ??? 😭
“The back of your hair looks really good.”
I like your skin. i am still kicking myself for not doing a ed Gein joke or something lol. i missed my chance
You’d be gorgeous if you smiled more.
“ you have beautiful eyes, they’re like my wife’s”
Made me feel so weird
I got off a flight and stopped at Starbucks for a coffee. The cashier told me I was a “pretty girl in disguise” which I guess means she thought I was pretty but disheveled lol
Also my gyno told me I have a cite little uterus. No idea why she felt the need to tell me that
“the diameter of your urethra is absolutely perfect”, why thank you doctor
At 10 I was told that I was a fox. At 10.
That my endometrium should be the poster child for endometriums everywhere. IVF has been a trip 😵💫
this little old lady at the post office ringing me up asked if i played sports. “no, why…?” she motioned towards my shoulders and said i had the shoulder frame of a football player. having wide shoulders is always something i hated but i left smiling after talking to her.
“Your lip gap is cute” and “I like your lip gap.” Cool cool, it’s a musculoskeletal feature of my muscular dystrophy condition 🫠
“You look gorgeous for an Asian”
Okay.
“You’re an exotic beauty”
Ok..
You skin is so soft like stripper skin
«I thought you’d be a bitch – but you’re so kind!»
Random person I met for a work related collaboration. I’m not the one using gendered slurs about other women, but ok and thx I guess
Idk if it’s strange but “you have sweet eyes” by an older lady in high school
I was told in high school that I looked like a goddess and should act accordingly.
I work in a library and a patron once told me that I “look like [I] have family in the Berkshire Mountains.” Still trying to puzzle that one out. He also told me that I have nice teeth. 🤷♀️
A dentist told me I have a very interesting mouth. I just said “ANK AHH” because he was still holding my jaw open. 😆
one time an old man told me I had such a soothing voice he wanted me to talk him to sleep
In a public restroom I was told I was really good at washing my hands. For some reason I just assume this woman was a teacher who spent her days telling kids to wash up
My hairdresser/barber told me I had a great skull shape.
I’ve been told I have cute accent in my life by different people. Some even said it was European in a way….
I always said thanks or that’s cool, but I’m American -born and raised. I’ve never even been to Europe 🤦♀️🤷♀️. I have hearing problems in both my ears. (Both of my ear drums ruptured during a severe double ear infection as a child causing scar tissue and ultimately affecting my speech). It made my confidence plummet for sure.
That I have beautiful earlobes. I was like ehhhhh ok thanks 👂🏽
Hubby’s classmate/friend said to me ‘I never imagined my kids will call you auntie’, in a way that wow I never thought we’ll become friends as adult and be in each other’s lives.
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My bf sometimes gives me weirdly specific compliments. But it’s great but I have very specific insecurities. Things like “your fingers are looking really slender” or “your jaw looks more defined”. I can definitely see it being off-putting from an outside perspective, but I love it haha. Hea also often referred to my “big, juicy brain”.
“You’re intimidating but extremely kind way, I can’t tell if I’m attracted to you or not” I was so caught off guard lol
I frequently get comments on my voice and I’ve been told from an ex coworker that he wished my voice was his inner monologue for everything. I chose to take it as a big compliment rather than it being a little “too forward” coming from an acquaintance lol
‘You have excellent shoulders’
Some random lady in the gym. I think about this often
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The exes have the best ones. “You are both the smartest and the most stupid person I ever knew”. From another one: “You have to be really crazy becase you are so sane.”
Not to forget this one mental health doctor (psychotherapist, though not psychiatrist): “You are unique”. Like no, dude. He was trying to assign my very much physical illness to some weird psychological theory.
“Your trauma dump was really cool” thanks ?
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Some people on the phone complimented my voice for being “insane” and “beautiful”.
A guy once told me I had “fuck me in the ass” eyes. We had never been sexual nor spoke that way in any form.
My gyno said my ovaries are “very pretty”. So. Yeah.
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Someone said I look just like Kylie Jenner pre surgery and I didn’t know how to take that.
I’ve also been told I look like Lindsey Lohan but they made sure to clarify before the drug use 😭
Was told by a neighbor that I look like Jesus!
Praise the Lord
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The inside of my ear was textbook, a perfect example of the ear. They actually called other medical staff in to look at it.
The other ear was fucked.
An older man once told me he liked my skin and it would make nice lamps (I have tattoos)
“Your hair is beautiful and your aura is amazing!” – woman in a wine bar
Recently there have been two separate incidents where strangers approached me to compliment my aura? Apparently it’s orange.
Two vastly different ones lol:
I get told every time I get bloodwork or an IV that I have the juiciest vein in my right inner elbow lmao. I mean they look at it lustfully. It’s hilarious.
2nd one is I got asked if I took a class in ahem…. oral delights lol (I’m F, he M) 😂😂 (I had not, I am self taught. Lol)
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Not strange to me at least, but I get compliments on my collarbone alot.
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Was told I am tough as old boots.
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A substitute teacher once said with a big smile that I was memorable cause I reminded him of an apple…… no bloody clue what that meant 😆
“Your nails look fake!”
Why thank you, they’re not 🙂