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# Fab, then Fug, Charlize Theron
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fab-then-fug-charlize-theron-01-2012/
- Published: 2012-01-09T21:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-09T05:29:49.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Well Played, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:30

Charlize Theron is really pretty great in *Young Adult* \-- you totally knew a Mavis Gary in high school, and this might be how you hoped she'd end up -- and she's impressively without vanity. There are loads of scenes where she has thin scraggly bedhead and smeared mascara, and looks like a hangover feels. And while that takes substantially LESS courage when you are Charlize Theron and your worst is still Usain Bolt compared to my third-grade-three-legged-race best, it's still a rarity in the movies, where people wake up after benders or sex marathons alike with perfect eyelashes and just-so lipgloss (and Susan Lucci should have won a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for her work in this field on *All My Children*, in which Erica Kane managed full flawless face and hair during multiple stints in prison *and* on the lam).

Anyway: Charlize. I would have gotten a huge kick out of her doing her public-appearance circuit in some of the Mavis Gary Sweatpants and Plaid pantheon of daytime outfits; instead, she sensibly went with something rather above grocery-store couture:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2012/01/psff_brunch_012_wenn5776554.jpg "Charlize Theron")](https://gofugyourself.com/fab-then-fug-charlize-theron-01-2012/psff-brunch-080112?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

I love how relaxed and casually sophisticated she looks here -- and, I must note, t[he last time she wore this color](https://gofugyourself.com/fugster-08-2007?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), she later won a Golden Globe and an Oscar. If it works for her again then perhaps someone in high places has a major jones for green, and next year we'll see every aspiring winner or nominee wearing it.

She abandoned color at the Palm Springs gala:

[![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2012/01/136542716.jpg "Charlize Theron")](https://gofugyourself.com/fab-then-fug-charlize-theron-01-2012/2012-palm-springs-international-film-festival-awards-gala-arrivals-7?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

How embarrassing! I hope she kept the receipt.

\[Photos: Getty and WENN/FayesVision\]