Beauty is usually seen as a blessing. But for some, it would seem, it can be a curse.
Laura Fernee says her good looks are so powerful they are ruining her life – and have forced her to quit her job.
The 33-year-old science graduate says her slim figure and pretty face attracted unwanted attention from her male colleagues.
Laura Fernee quit her job saying she is too pretty to work as she receives unwanted attentionShe also claims she has been ostracised by other women in the workplace who are jealous of her beauty.
Miss Fernee now lives off her wealthy parents after quitting her £30,000 job in scientific research two years ago.
She said her appearance meant she was constantly harassed and bullied, and has decided work ‘just isn’t for her’.
Yesterday, she said: ‘I’m not lazy and I’m no bimbo. The truth is my good looks have caused massive problems for me when it comes to employment, so I’ve made the decision that employment just isn’t for me at the moment. It’s not my fault … I can’t help the way I look.
Laura said she didn’t get the acknowledgement she deserved for her scientific achievements as people only paid attention to her looks
‘Male colleagues were only interested in me for how I looked. I wanted them to recognise my achievements and my professionalism but all they saw was my face and body.’
She said men left ‘romantic gifts’ on her desk and she was ‘constantly asked out’, which she found ‘sleazy’.
‘Even when I was in a laboratory in scrubs with no make-up they still came on to me because of my natural attractiveness. There was nothing I could do to stop it,’ she added.
She now lives off her parents who pay for her £2000-a-month Notting Hill flatMiss Fernee studied science and medical research to doctorate level and began working in a laboratory in 2008. But she said she was forced to quit three years later because of the treatment she received.
She said: ‘They [other women] assumed because I was pretty, I was stupid, so didn’t take me seriously at first and, because of their own insecurities, were jealous of my looks.
‘Then when they realised I was very good at my job, possibly better than them, they hated me even more.’
Miss Fernee’s parents – Catherine, 65, and Alan, 70 – inherited money from Laura’s grandfather, and now pay £2,000 a month in rent and bills for her flat in Notting Hill, London, as well as picking up her credit card payments.
her parents also pay for her credit cards, and £1,700-per-month for her designer clothes and handbags
She says that despite her reluctance to work, she is not ‘lazy’ and ‘no bimbo’They also shell out £1,500 a month for her designer clothes, shoes and handbags, and £700 on haircuts.
Miss Fernee pays £80 a week to work out at the gym and spends £1,000 a month on socialising.
She said her critics were ‘underestimating just what a curse good looks can be in the workplace’.
Read more: DailyMail
This lazy gal just got me angry ni sha.who says u r pretty?u better get serious and stop decieving yourself *pscheeew*
This gal dey decieve herself ni sha..who says u r too pretty..pretty indeed.come c gals,u go fear
She looks 45 to me.
Where were these men when you were schooling? If they could not chase you out from your high school to the time you got your phd, then they can not chase you out from your workplace due to their advances. Just quietly enjoy your parents money and excuse us.
who is deceiving this girl? thought I was going to see one angel who has just descended from heaven. She is pretty in her own way but I can't really see any girl pretier than my grandmother. miss phernee need to av a rethink and go back to work to earn herself the desired fame. stop living off your parent's wealt. What if they are not wealthy? They worked for their money, work for your own. pls note that I don't mean to attack your person but truth is hard sometimes
I can't find out the pretty in her she is just fuming.
She is not pretty or beautiful! Has she seen Kim K or Beyonce those are successful women who work and are 100times more beautiful and appealing than this Bimbo is!!
“I’ve made the decision that employment just isn’t for me at the moment”…WOW, so many people can not make that “decision” becuz we do not have rich parents to pay our bills so we MUST work! I think she simply does not want to have to work so she makes these excuses. There are many white women who look just like her, she is not too beautiful to go outside givemeabreak!
Who is deceiving her?Or is she the one fooling herself.
Abeg waka….there is nothing exceptional about ur “Beauty” my mama fine pass u sef
Wit dose fallen boobs of urs n wrinkled look? Plz stop dreaming… Pretty ko… *smh
she is not beautiful, and won't even demand a second look. come to the Africa soil, and see beauty.
Haaaa o pretty die ooo
Mshew! Alaini nkan se! ‘Too pretty’ na da????