
“I still want someone who’s in decent shape, but it’s more important to find a guy who’s goal-oriented,” she says.

Now, she’s more interested in “superballer” men with high-paying careers. Looks fade.’ - Carly SpindelĬhitre, an environmental lawyer and the founder of Priyamvada Sustainability Consulting, considers herself “a 9 or a 10,” but she says she’s done with gorgeous guys. ‘When men get to a certain age, they realize that it’s important to meet a life partner that they connect with. “He was a Nazi about his diet and would work out hard-core and cared more about his body than just living life,” says Chitre, who broke up with the finance guy last October. But he’s quick to note that he’s not just a great set of abs - he also plays the violin and speaks seven languages.Īfter dating an athletic banker with model good looks for two years, Sonali Chitre, 34, has sworn off hotties. “From my personal experience, people who are better looking are less likely to pursue advanced degrees, or play an instrument or learn other languages,” says Benedict Beckeld, a 37-year-old Brooklyn writer with a doctorate in philosophy and the body of an Adonis. Others say the stereotypes about pretty people being shallow are true, even if they’re hotties themselves.

“And that’s why at the end of a date they wonder, ‘Oh that girl is so beautiful but so empty.’ That’s happened to me often.” Sonali Chitre dumped her hot boyfriend because he was too vain. “When men see beautiful women, they are more concentrated on how she looks because they want to ‘have’ her, and so they don’t want to go deeper and get to know her,” says Isabell Giardini, a 22-year-old Italian beauty signed with Major Models. Some great-looking people say they’re given a bad rap unfairly. “When men get to a certain age, they realize that it’s important to meet a life partner that they connect with,” she says. “And she’s 5-foot-2, so she can’t be a runway model, but I think she’s really beautiful and is prettier than anyone I’ve dated.”Ĭarly has no qualms about how her future husband views her compared with his exes. “ is a softer beauty, someone you can take home and cuddle with, and she’s very elegant,” Rochkind says. He loves that Carly isn’t like the swimsuit models he used to go for. Rochkind proposed to her last May in Central Park. Rochkind found that in Carly, 30, a lovely brunette who’s the vice president of her mother’s matchmaking company and a Syracuse University graduate. “Successful men who are in shape have the pickings when it comes to dating, eventually they want a woman of substance.” “I gave him my card and said I have the perfect girl for him,” recalls Janis, founder of Serious Matchmaking, based in Midtown. The two met after Spindel’s mother, matchmaker Janis Spindel, scouted Rochkind at a gym. “People who are better looking are less likely to pursue advanced degrees, or play an instrument or learn other languages,” says Benedict Beckeld. Looking to avoid such a fate, Rochkind started dating a woman who isn’t a bikini model, Carly Spindel, in January 2015. The men who were judged to be the best-looking had higher rates of divorce. In another, women were asked to judge the attractiveness of 238 men based on their high school yearbook photos from 30 years ago.

In one part, the researchers looked at the top 20 actresses on IMDb and found that they tend to have rocky marriages. A multipart study from Harvard University, University of La Verne and Santa Clara University researchers found that beautiful people are more likely to be involved in unstable relationships.

“Eventually, I was dreading getting dinner with them because they couldn’t carry a conversation.”Īccording to new research, Rochkind’s ideas about sexy bikini babes are correct.
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“Beautiful women who get a fair amount of attention get full of themselves,” he says. He spent the better part of his 30s going on up to three dates a week, courting 20-something blond models, but eventually realized that dating the prettiest young things had its drawbacks - he found them flighty, selfish and vapid. “I met some nice people, but realistically I went for the hottest girl you could find.” Dan Rochkind used to date swimsuit models, but he’s happier now that he’s engaged to a merely beautiful woman, Carly Spindel (right). “I could have I wanted,” says Rochkind, now 40 and an Upper East Sider with a muscular build and a full head of hair. When it came to dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity, Dan Rochkind had no problem snagging the city’s most beautiful women.
