butt-ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

i don't think jessi looks any worse than the lot of them, really.  the worst thing about her is that abnormally large forehead, and her upper arms are a wee bit short.  other than that, i like her fine -- i have complaints about every figure i've seen, and all of them require work to make them look like real people not suffering from anorexia.  jessi is a bit more on the stylized side, but i find her neither alien nor butt-ugly.  anyone who's seen a lot of people naked realizes that there is a huge variety of shapes among humans -- much more than among poser figures, heh.

my favourite out of the box remains SP3.  but who keeps them looking as if they just came out of the box anyway?  i care more about the quality of the mesh.  jessi's mesh doesn't strike me as bad, but i haven't really stretched the envelope yet at all.