Ugly? Or just that I didn’t notice their looks until I got to know them better?
I’ve definitely had the latter experience…I think, fundamentally, it gets harder and harder to distinguish how people look from how people act as you get to know them. A pretty person with a great personality is drop-dead gorgeous, and a pretty person with a spiteful personality gets described as “fake” or just mean-looking. At a certain point it’s impossible to see a person from a completely detached perspective and only look at them superficially—because you realize how kind, how funny, how witty, how smart he or she is, and that drowns out everything else.
Besides, everyone is beautiful in certain ways. It just might take some time to notice.