The person regarded as being the “ugliest” on earth was Julia Pastrana. Since it is believed that she served as a bridge between humans and the “ape woman,” she was also known as the “bear woman.” Despite having demonstrated great talent and intelligence and communicating with audiences, Julia faced criticisms from her family and others.
Her maternal uncle sold her to a circus, where he made astronomical profits by using her as the “World’s Ugliest Woman” show. She was depicted both while she was alive and after her death as a “bearded woman,” making her one of the most well-known human oddities of the 19th century.
Pastrana had hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, two uncommon inherited disorders, which caused him to have thick, dense facial hair and a high-set jaw.
It is unknown why she turned down 20 marriage proposals. In spite of the woman’s peculiar appearance, her manager, Theodore Lent, secretly got married.
She later acknowledged that the reason she married in secret was because she had to decline more than twenty marriage proposals because the men who had initially approached her didn’t have the financial means to support their marriages……. See More