She is also the granddaughter of a famous filmmaker, grew up in Beverly Hills, and is lithe and young and pretty, a prettiness that no Food Network executive is going to allow her to hide behind an apron.
Some may associate her pastel shades with prettiness, but they are not pretty so much as full of light.
For the past twenty-five years, ballet has been looking like a stepchild — either simplistically pretty, trying to please, or simplistically tough, telling prettiness to go to Hell.
On the home page of theuglybugball reads the encouraging homily: "Half of daters aren't pretty so instead of fishing in a small pool of prettiness and getting nowhere, dive into an ocean of uglies and have more choice".
It was her sex and her prettiness, as much as her religious conversion, that made Ms Tucker a poster girl of the anti-capital-punishment groups.
But behind the prettiness is poverty.
Its name Severe style is in part an indication that the "prettiness" of Archaic art, with its patterns of drapery and its decisive action, has been replaced by calm and balance.
Many of the early paintings of the Neoclassical artist Benjamin West derive their compositions from works by Nicolas Poussin, and Kauffmann's sentimental subjects dressed in antique garb are basically Rococo in their softened, decorative prettiness.
The elegant and somewhat artificial prettiness of this style was widely disseminated throughout Europe in sculpture, painting, and manuscript illumination during the 14th century and became known as the International Gothic style.
Though taking from the Velvet Underground and the Cocteau Twins, and sharing values of serrated prettiness with contemporaries as varied as the Jesus and Mary Chain and Teenage Fanclub, this still sounds like a unique monument to slowness and absence.
But cleanliness, let alone prettiness or quality of life, never seems to have been on the agenda for the 25,000 men who travel from all over southern Africa to mine it here.
