Her friend was much better looking, it did seem weird he would chose her when he could have had the friend if he wanted.

Amusing to hear comments about breasts from those who seem to have no experience with the subject.
Kirsten was 18 when this was made and has the absolutely lovely well formed, pert figure of a lady that age.
Absolutely.

It was part of the whole strategy for the character, she had to reflect how messed up she was not only on an emotional level but also make believable through her exterior the portrait of how damaged she was on the inside

Wow, I hadn't thought about that! Thanks.

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Allow me to decode Crazy/Beautiful for you:
Crazy = Nicole
Carlos = Beautiful

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I'll sort of echo what everyone else has said. It's all apart of her character. Nicole was wild and eccentric. She marched to the beat of her own drum. She didn't care what people thought and she wasn't worried about conforming to traditional standards of "beauty". I thought her image totally fit her free spirited persona. Yes, Carlos was the pretty boy and the athlete. But the fact that he was so attracted and drawn to her is what I love about this movie. Opposites really do attract. And I'm actually glad they didn't make her all pretty and glamorous. It was refreshing to see the leading lady in a movie not look like a damn supermodel for once. Realistically, I went to high school with more girls who looked unkempt than those who got all dolled up everyday.

She stood out more, and used character rather than looks to meet people, also she was clearly depressed, in which case you won't exactly care about the lastest fasion accesory or sticking a bra on.
Also she was sexyplain and simple, I loved how she presented herself in this movie, obviously she wasn't very conventionaly attractive.

And why couldn't she ever wear a bra? God, Carlos is going to have a wife with saggy boobies!

yea i think she has saggy boobs and HORRIBLE posture! her posture in the movie bugged the crap out of me.

yea she NNEEEDEDD to wear a BRA.
Ryan Gosling & Mark Wahlberg are Ahhhmazingg : )

I Really Thought She Lookd Really Cute
in this movie except for the whole jiggly boob thing
i thought she looked hott

what are you talking about this is one
of the movies i thought kirsten looked the hottest in.
this and the virgin suicides.
"The trouble with the world is that its always a drink behind." Humphrey Bogart

Clearly you've never suffered from depression. its not something that makes sense to anyone who's never experienced it i dont think. because there doesnt seem anything wrong, so why are they so miserable and cant cheer up? or, why are they so crazy when 5 minutes ago they were on top of the world?
I think she's a great example of someone with depression, whos trying not to be depressed. they dont all wallow in it all day. they might have a really good long phase of being happy, like nicole was with carlos, then something happens and it all catches up again.
and yeah, she just didnt care how she looked. maybe part of her depression, part of her crazy freespiritedness. she showed glimses of making an effort in her clothes, but yeah, her hair was always greasy. i think the clue is in the first scene, where she goes to school in what she wore to bed. clearly, just past caring what people think of her. if someone's going to like her, its for her, and not who she percieves herself to be.
hope that helps you understand why she looked so daggy, and why she behaved how she did.

Well, personally, I quite liked her bra-less look. I've always thought that Kirsten Dunst has quite an odd, mouse-like face, but I think she looked great in crazy/beautiful. She has an awesome body.

I was asking myself why does she look that way? Was it supposed to be a "look"? Or was she a frumpy despressed teen? She seemed to have a bunch of friends. It wasn't like she was some loser-loner. She was in an up mood often - okay maybe drug induced, but depressed people do dope to medicate and zone out. She didn't.
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yeh she always looks so greasyyyy

I agree. That and the fact that she didn't really care about her appearance. If you're depressed and unhappy the last thing you care about is whether your hair and makeup is perfect.

i think its a technique used to emphasise the fact that money doesn't equal happiness/goodlooks or whatever

Bring it On came out in 2000, Crazy/Beautiful came out exaclty one year later.

ya i think crazybeautiful was before bring it on, but the short hair and no bra just ddidnt look good on her
Sean Faris is Amazinngg : )

I know. I thought she was cute in Bring it On, I don't know why they made her look so trampy for this movie.