Oh-My..-baGod. she is too adorable Dx when I saw the pic I went "Gaki!!!" and lol@ her clothes xD <3 so 12 year old-like. I would love to see her look at this picture of her now xD かわいい <333
I never personally thought of her as ugly. But there was a time, really really early in her H!P career, that she looked a little... awkward, I guess? Some parts were growing more rapidly than others (most notably, I remember in her Matthew's Best Hit TV appearance where her head seemed about as big as her hand). But seriously, we're following almost all of these girls' careers right through puberty. Who WASN'T a little awkward, be it physically, mentally, and/or emotionally? In Niigaki's case, she, uhh, turned out okay.