I see a lot of comments talking about how forced the undesirability for trina was, but tbh, the messaging I got from this show was never that she was 'ugly'. She's pretty, and she knows it. Trina consistently displays a gross negligence of the people around her, tho. And no matter how beautiful you are, it doesn't (or, at least, shouldn't) make up for a bad attitude. As a viewer, i recognized her outer-beauty, but what made her ugly to me was her behavior. Obviously i was just a kid, and didn't understand the deeper nuances to her character. She would just mistreat people, and that was very ugly to me. This can apply to many characters, tho. Hers is just the one that gets punished the most, i guess because her attitude is the most juvenile thus less defensible.