Music Video
Paul Hunter directed the music video for "Unpretty" on August 29, 1999, which tied together vignettes of several different stories relating to the song's lyrics. The main set of vignettes features a young woman (portrayed by Thomas) whose boyfriend convinces her to get breast implants to augment her small bust. However, after she sees another patient in the hospital (cameo by Jade Valerie) getting her implants painfully removed, the woman flees the hospital in fear, and is later shown fighting with her boyfriend.
Another prominent set of vignettes features Lopes as an inner-city woman who witnesses a gang fight and a murder. Several of Lopes' scenes are set to her verse from "I'm Good at Being Bad" (another track on FanMail) instead of "Unpretty" (Lopes appears in the "Unpretty" performance shots reciting the song lyrics in sign language).
Other vignettes feature a full-figured teenager worried about fitting the "ideal" image of the petite supermodel and struggling with a bulimia as a result. Near the end of the video, however, she tears down the unrealistic images of models that she has tacked on her wall and changes into a bathing suit, a sign that she may be starting to embrace her own natural body shape. One last set of vignettes features Watkins as a high school student who is harassed by two white males because she is black.
The video has become a fan favorite because it is the last successful video featuring all three members of TLC before the death of Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes (The last video, however, was "Dear Lie"). The music video for "Unpretty" cost over $1.6 million to make.
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