Michelle Pfeiffer claims being beautiful has hampered her Hollywood career. According to the Batwoman Returns' actress, being beautiful heaped extra pressure on her from critics. She says, "It was harder for me to get a good part. When I went to an audition I had to be better because I was beautiful. For the longest time I wouldn't even talk about how being beautiful got in my way, because I felt admitting it was like giving it power." The star says she was singled out for her turn as a dowdy waitress in 1991 romantic comedy Frankie and Johnny’, opposite Al Pacino. The mum-of-two says, “That was one of our biggest criticisms – that you couldn’t believe me in that part. And my argument is always, ‘You know, everyone can be damaged. And pretty people can be just as damaged as ugly people, or fat people’.” [19 February 2007]
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