With her flawless complexion and glamorous red-carpet style, Jessica Chastain embodies what we’ve come to expect from a Hollywood movie star.

So it's especially hard to believe that the actress — who says she was a “late bloomer” and “very freckly” as a girl — was ever considered anything but beautiful.

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"I was told every day at school that I was ugly. And that no one wanted to be my friend. The most cruel things," the star told Glamour magazine this month when asked about schoolyard bullying.

Now, of course, it's Jessica who is having the last laugh. At the red-carpet premiere of her new film, Interstellar, the 37-year-old actress stunned in a black Givenchy couture gown with daring, peekaboo lace, her signature auburn hair worn in glamorous finger waves.

It's hardly the first time she's wowed on the red carpet. Here, Hello! look back at some of Jessica's best fashion moments to date.

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